{"id":2257,"date":"2010-05-24T00:52:02","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T07:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=2257"},"modified":"2010-05-24T00:52:50","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T07:52:50","slug":"curing-the-burnout-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/curing-the-burnout-monster\/","title":{"rendered":"Curing the Burnout Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An unfinished chess game is the perfect metaphor for how I view the school year tonight. It began with great plans and intentions but we’re rushing to a hollow ending, punctuated by the little ping you hear when you kick an empty can. WARNING: you have just been exposed to the effects of the burnout monster.<\/p>\n

I have 5 days until I call the school year finished. Can I conquer this monster? Can I look at the year objectively and the see the truth in what we have accomplished?<\/p>\n

I think objectivity is one of the first things to fail when I am weary.\u00a0 To get my objectivity back, I need to fill in my spreadsheets with scores and figure out grades. Maybe I need a teacher fairy to tell me if I can go to the good teacher ball. (You know, the ball where I have new contact lenses, a haircut, and a few extra hours of reading time each day.) Can this little teacher have a guilt-free summer break, please?<\/p>\n

And can I get a little assertiveness fairy, too? Are you clapping your hands? Do you believe? Truly, a little glittery fairy to give me courage to face a lurking task and the teacher fairy to look over the kids’ projects would be just the thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An unfinished chess game is the perfect metaphor for how I view the school year tonight. It began with great plans and intentions but we’re rushing to a hollow ending, punctuated by the little ping you hear when you kick an empty can. WARNING: you have just been exposed to the effects of the burnout … Continue reading Curing the Burnout Monster<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeschooling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2257"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2261,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions\/2261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}