I haven't taken a sick day yet this year. So far, I have only needed a substitute for the day when I was coaching in the Battle of the Books competition. I had thought that I would have needed a couple of personal days by this point just to stay afloat with my classwork for Walden, but I have largely been able to stay on top of things. None of my illnesses this year have really been severe enough for me to stay home either (although there was one day that I would have been better off spending at home, but I didn't really realize that until after the fact).
Coming up, I will need to take one personal day to get Alex to the airport so she can have her interview in Marquette for the Rural Medicine Residency. Other than that, I don't think that I'll be taking a day off. Having said that, who knows what might happen ...
This is quite different than many preceding years as a teacher. Often I would find the need to take a "mental health day." Often, it was to get paperwork done: coursework for my masters or grading (either for school or for the college classes I was teaching--usually the latter). Sometimes it was due to the birth of one of my children (Trevor and Rowen in particular), and sometimes it was due to illness: either mine or one of my kids'. I still tried to not take off too many days in case of some future need, but I certainly used more than I have these past two years.
Come to think of it, we haven't had any snow days either (which is good as all of them get tacked to the end of the year). Perhaps the normal breaks in the calendar are enough respite that I haven't felt the desire to take a "mental health day." Perhaps I'm still too intimidated by the substitute system up here. Perhaps I know that I had to start my sick day bank from scratch yet again.
I just hope that I didn't jinx anything by writing about this ... or by mentioning that I could jinx it ...
Coming up, I will need to take one personal day to get Alex to the airport so she can have her interview in Marquette for the Rural Medicine Residency. Other than that, I don't think that I'll be taking a day off. Having said that, who knows what might happen ...
This is quite different than many preceding years as a teacher. Often I would find the need to take a "mental health day." Often, it was to get paperwork done: coursework for my masters or grading (either for school or for the college classes I was teaching--usually the latter). Sometimes it was due to the birth of one of my children (Trevor and Rowen in particular), and sometimes it was due to illness: either mine or one of my kids'. I still tried to not take off too many days in case of some future need, but I certainly used more than I have these past two years.
Come to think of it, we haven't had any snow days either (which is good as all of them get tacked to the end of the year). Perhaps the normal breaks in the calendar are enough respite that I haven't felt the desire to take a "mental health day." Perhaps I'm still too intimidated by the substitute system up here. Perhaps I know that I had to start my sick day bank from scratch yet again.
I just hope that I didn't jinx anything by writing about this ... or by mentioning that I could jinx it ...
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