That’s what it feels like. It feels like a Monday after a refreshing weekend. I feel ready for my to-do list, and I feel like I’m going to be able to get a lot done.

I don’t have labs today since it’s the first day of the new month.

For those who don’t know, the school I teach at is pretty intense. You get a four year degree in two years. Each month you take two classes, and in those 4 weeks you get a semesters worth of information.

When you enroll at the school they advise you to not work while taking classes, since you go to lecture for 4 hours a day, and then have lab 4 hours each day, and that doesn’t include time for homework.

The school also runs 24 hours a day. So you can literally get labs from 9pm to 1am, or 5am to 9am. It’s crazy.

Like I said. Intense. I went through as a student and loved it. And now I teach there. I love it.

Anyway. Since students haven’t had their first lecture yet, their labs won’t start until around the middle of the week. But since we have Thanksgiving this week their break starts right when they would have lab.

So really my week is full of Administrative hours. I’m on the clock doing stuff for the class, but I’m not in a lab. Basically it’s a bunch of time to myself, working on tasks that I choose to work on. It should be fantastic.

And that’s most likely the reason I feel like I’m going to get a bunch done today. I have the time and space I need to do it. No constant questions interrupting my workflow.

So I have that to look forward to once I go on.

One of the things I did last night was run back to the school. In one of my work emails there were notes from a meeting that I hadn’t been able to attend. Come to find out, two of my favorite co-workers just celebrated 10 years with the school. I had no idea they had been here for so long.

They were instructors when I went through he program, and they’ve been so supportive of my endeavors as an employee. I wrote them both thank you cards saying how much I appreciated their help as a student, and how much their support meant to me as a co-worker. I said thank you for all of their awesome, amazing work, and that the school wouldn’t be the same without them.

I went to the store first to pick up the groceries, but then I ran to school to leave the notes on their desk. I hope they get them this morning. I really hope it brightens their day.

While I was waking out of work I walked by an open lab. Luis was in there and he called out. I stopped and we chatted for a bit. He was playing World of Warcraft and in general just enjoying the evening.

He offered for me to play with him an Aaron, who was also in the lab. I was super tempted, and was actually going to come back and hang with them. I opted for staying at home and chatting with them via Skype instead.

Since they were playing alliance characters I had to make new characters on a different server. But it was fun and I had a good time.

I didn’t eat my steak, but that’s because once I got home I thought it would be super awesome to have sautéed mushrooms and onion with it, which of course I didn’t have and the store was closed.

So I had a chicken sandwich instead and played WoW until about midnight. Got to level 6 on my nightelf hunter. : )

Nothing had really happened yet this morning. Just now waking up.

I’m going to go running, then get snake food for Seth, stop by the store for the steak toppings, come home to cook for the week. I need to check out my new class for the month.

I’ve already emailed Jarrett and Mr. D about the bills. Setting up the DropBox folder would be a good thing to take care of as well so it’s off the list.

So, yeah. Got a game plan going, with the energy and recourses I need to see it through.

Here’s to a good day.