It is ironic, as someone so kindly pointed out to me last night, that since my job has ended and I have all the time in the world, I have essentially not blogged. I explained that not a lot of excitement is going on, and then it was suggested that I blog about my dreams. Now, I usually don't remember my dreams, but strangely enough I remembered my dream from last night. So here we go...
In my dream I was in the middle of a school group. The strange thing about this (aside from it no longer being my job) is that this school group was taking place inside my grandma's house. It wasn't even in their old farmhouse in Idaho, either. This is their regular, friendly neighborhood home in Ogden. Everything else was similar to the school group program--me, in my tattered yellow pioneer dress, groups of approximately 10 kids gathered around me, and groups rotating from station to station. What was so great about my dream was that all of my normal feelings associated with schools groups were there--anxiety, stress, focus on working with the kids, and difficulties with staff. I distinctly remember one staff member announcing she was going to leave mid-school group. I told her that wasn't a possibility and she stayed, but she was grumbling. Basically, your normal response it seems with this program and my job.
That was it. I don't know if I am supposed to analyze my dream, but I think it was helpful to have such vivid memories of exactly how stressed I was at times with my job. It makes me more appreciative of this little time I have of relative low stress. Because in a couple of months, the stress level will hit a level I have never experienced, to be sure.
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"We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time."
-T.S. Eliot
"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important."
-Bertrand Russell
"The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them."
- Albert Einstein
"Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair."
-George Burns
"Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost."
-Martina Navratilova
"I feel like 'Cactus Gavvy' Cravath. Do you know who that is? Right. Nobody does. He's the guy who had the home run record before Babe Ruth came along."
-Tom Walsh, of Washington D.C. (He held the record for "Jeopardy" winnings until Ken Jennings of SLC broke it.)
-Francois Mauriac
"We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time."
-T.S. Eliot
"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important."
-Bertrand Russell
"The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them."
- Albert Einstein
"Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair."
-George Burns
"Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost."
-Martina Navratilova
"I feel like 'Cactus Gavvy' Cravath. Do you know who that is? Right. Nobody does. He's the guy who had the home run record before Babe Ruth came along."
-Tom Walsh, of Washington D.C. (He held the record for "Jeopardy" winnings until Ken Jennings of SLC broke it.)
2 comments:
So, I see it this way...you are either missing your job, or it will take you a while to get it out of your system. :)
I think it's great that you get to relax before grad school starts. I wish I could have done that...it would really have helped with burn-out.
You are going to be so set!
There is nothing worse than working in your sleep, especially a stressful dream. I used to have dreams of showing up to teach totally and completely unprepared, only to have someone important show up to observe me teaching. This was actually more of a nightmare.
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