another day, another dollar. . . yen

pulled off two super high energy performances today first and second period. no classes for the rest of the day but now have to plan for two private lessons tonight. never quite know what to do with these kids who, at best, have the attention span of mice on crack.

i have that one private lesson tonight that i have once a month. students include:
- 1 8th grader, very smart
- 1 7th grader, unnaturally slow
- 1 adult
- sometimes that adult's kid who is a 10th grader. a little slow for 10th grade
- 1 9 year-old who is as smart as the 8th grader but can't read as fast.
and then the woman who runs the class that i basically team teach with. she's okay.

all ingredients for one very painful hour of English teaching.

the lesson before that is with the 7 year old kid i've been tutoring for a year with results yet to be evident. he's getting more hardheaded as he gets older i think. all his mom wanted is for him to be conversational. last week he answered my, "How are you?" with a "I'm six years old." which is 0-2 in the correct answer department.

amidst all this is the nagging worry about taking the GRE, applying for Peace Corps, applying for grad school, buying that plane ticket to 'merica for Cassie's wedding, doing my taxes, booking ticket/hotel for Hawaii, mailing certain packages home and having enough money for all this. i get tired so easily lately (or perhaps not lately. it's just me being lazy) that i all i want to do when i get home is go to sleep or read some fluff romance novel.