Labor Day Weekend 2009

For most of my professional life, I have "labored" at some point during this holiday weekend, from going in to work to clean a classroom or office, to organizing locker cards for incoming 7th graders, or to refining my opening day meeting agenda. The tradition continues. While there is enough to keep me laboring in the book rooms of the high school and the middle school in my new district, I will stay away and work via my laptop, perhaps while enjoying the ocean breeze. But the annual decision about the opening day outfit remains as does the hair and nail appointment and the last-minute let's lose weight and get tan in one weekend mentality. Simply juvenile.