Heading into the new year

Upcoming challenges:

1) Getting my seniors ready for their IB Oral Commentaries. I feel like I they're not close right now, and they start it on January 15th. For the love of god that's close!

2) Teaching The Catcher in the Rye to 9th graders for the first time. Woah! I love the book (my dog's name is Holden) but have no idea how they'll react.

3) Going back to morning workouts before school. There's no excuse for me being as hefty as I am right now. Seriously, get it together, self.

4) I need to remove myself from my second job. That's coming, thankfully. It's just too much, at least on weeknights.

I'm looking forward to a good 2011. 2010 was pretty good for me professionally (NBPTS certification, beating longtime rival school in baseball, 91% pass rate on IB exams) but I'm looking forward to an even better, more balanced, 2011. I need to get myself healthy and stop burning the candle on both ends so much.