Raw Food Diet Diary

The Story of One Man’s Massive Brain Fart

Yesterday was a difficult day.  Everything I did turned to crap.  At the end of the day,  I was ready to retire from teaching forever.

I fell asleep while watching election returns.  The Sweetheart was packing for a business trip in our bedroom, so I went to sleep in the spare bedroom.

I woke up, looked at the clock, and it said 5 a.m.  I knew that it wasn’t quite time to get up, so I rolled over and went back to sleep.

The Sweetheart’s alarm went off.  I looked at the clock and it said 6 a.m.  Holy cow!  I overslept.  Why didn’t my alarm go off?

I went to the bathroom, where I charge my cell phone (that also serves as my alarm clock).  It said 5 a.m.  I guess we didn’t “fall back” with the guest room clock.  I went back to bed until my alarm went off half an hour later.

I got up, showered, shaved, and dressed.  All the while, I was thinking about what I could do to make my day better.

I went downstairs and fixed the Princess’s lunch.  Then, I went back upstairs to wake and dress her.  My wife was headed to the airport first thing, so I had drop off duty.

I got the Princess put together, took her to daycare, and headed toward work.  On the way, I stopped at Starbucks for a grab and go breakfast.

On the way to work, I thought about what I was going to do differently today.  I noticed that I hadn’t been greeting students at the door this week, and I believe that I paid for that yesterday.  I find that if I greet a kid by name when he or she enters my classroom, the class performs better.  I suspect i do, too, because I’ve already started to make my interactions more personal.

Yesterday, I could do no right.  Today, I could do no wrong.  I was on fire!

I grabbed a quick sandwich for lunch, had a chat with a couple of colleagues about some stuff coming up on the calendar, and reflected on the mornng.

I still felt a little tired, so I closed the door to my office, laid down on the floor, and closed my eyes for ten minutes.  When I got up, I felt better, and I proceeded to teach my last two classes of the day.

On the drive home, I reflected on what a good job I had done of taking care of myself today, and resolved that I needed to do that every day . . . even if it meant that I fell a little behind on paperwork and whatnot.  My time between classes seems to be better spent taking a break from everything, and saying hi to everyone.

I picked up the Princess, who wanted to go out to eat.  I told her that I was tired, and asked if I could get something from the store for her.  She wanted sushi, so we headed to Kroger.

We walked in the door.  She ran up to the cooler, where the sushi was, to pick out her dinner.

I looked past her, to the produce section, and all of a sudden it dawned on me . . .

I hadn’t eaten anything raw yet today!  What was I thinking?????

Answer: I wasn’t.  I don’t know why, but I had gone on auto-pilot back to my old way of eating during the school day.  I haven’t done that, on that scale, since last school year.

OK, I knocked myself down.  Time to pick myself back up.

Tomorrow, I’ll live, and eat, more conciously.