My classroom efforts are finally paying off; today I got over the hump, as it were, and I'm beginning to see the shape of my classroom appearing under the clutter. You know how sometimes things have to get worse before they can get better? That's how my classroom has been. I had to tear it all apart and make it look like a disaster of chaos before I could begin to put it back together in a way that would make sense to me. I still have a lot of work to do on it, and will probably spend 9 or 10 hours in it tomorrow, but then it might actually look almost ready. I'd say a big "hooray!" but I'm too tired!

It's 9:30, and I might be even too tired to watch tv. Ohmigod. I can't believe I actually just said that.