Every year, I take this third job, and every year I exhaust myself on it. I've had approximately one hour to relax this week. I'm going to add another one with my lunch hour today. The test was Monday. It was pretty rough on the kids, therefore it's been pretty rough on me. I've been grading non-stop since Monday, taking time-out for work and sleep, of course, and I'm still not done. (I knew that comprehensive problem was going to be a bitch to grade.) It's not looking very good, either, so I'm stressing on whether I didn't teach it well enough, or they didn't study well enough, or the questions were too tricky. I just don't know what else I could have done to help them do better on the test. I warned them several times that the first two weeks were going to be the hardest, and they needed to not fall behind. Maybe it's just a matter of them needing a kick in the butt/wake-up call to buckle down. It's a summer class, but that just makes it tougher, because it's a lot of information to pack into eight weeks. Without knowing how much effort they put into studying, I won't be able to know for sure.

At least the money's good. I'll be able to finish paying off my windows and half my student loan balance with this summer's earnings. That'll feel good.