Hmmm....

So I made this blog for my grad class but I think that means that it may be all too appropriate to use it at this point in my life when grad class combined with everything else is driving me crazy.

Everyone says that the second year of teaching should be so much easier. I am confident that it would be... if all I was doing was doing was teaching but this year I have this nasty thing called a practicum for my Administration and Supervision Masters Degree. IT IS INSANE. Not only am I, as always, one of the youngest members of my grad classes but for the first time in academic work I feel like I might really be overwhelmed. Now this is not entirely true because in the back of my mind I have not given up and everything will get done, but I more than usual recently I have just honestly been so overwhelmed that I can't handle it.

For instance a full time job is time consuming and sometimes tough as it is. But now I have to balance that and all my work for my graduate class, 300 hours of Administrative and Supervisory experience for my practicum, AND a second grad class that I have to take this semester as well. I feel like just when I thought my teaching was going to work out well and when I was getting more comfortable in the classroom I have been overcome with work and have lost my footing. And when I get like this it is hard for me to distinguish why i am upset.

Am I upset because I have so much work? Am I upset because I behind in my grading ( AGAIN), am I upset because most of my best friends live over 5 hours away from me? All of these things seem to jumble together which makes it extremely hard for me to sort it all out which leave my life in a jumble.

What do you do when your life just seems to jumble itself together and you don't know where to begin to sort it out?