almost Friday.

I made it through the toughest day of the week - my first teaching evening. It was fine and I actually was right on the script until the last half hour when I sped up. Three of the eight actually stayed 15 minutes over to work through more problems with me. One laughed about being such a nerd, and I said, "Oh, no, no!" but I was thinking, hell yeah.

They were all really nice people and I think I will continue to find it enjoyable. Only actually 7 more sessions with them. Two of the boys think they're all that because they scored their LSAT's in the 150's. I'm just glad that none of them was close to my score or I would have felt insecure. I can't believe this class costs like almost $1300 for them to take. Trust me, I ain't making all that. Of course, I'm also just the grunt - the test prep folks put a lot of effort into making the materials and everything else. I can't really complain about the pay, and they pay me for prep time. And while it's taxing to be on my feet for over 4 hours without a break, talking the whole time, it's adults who want to be there so I have none of the 8th grade behavior issues to deal with that can take a lot of energy. The two boys who are oh-so-wise, well, I've been teaching long enough to just take that in stride. Worst case scenario, they complain and I get fired. Um, yeah, so I'm heartbroken. The site manager is a newly hired raving bitch, but she's way sucking up to me right now. I'll start avoiding her so we don't fall out.

Hopefully I can take the whole thing in stride - all those hours spent teaching and prepping instead of studying - hopefully it all works as I planned, to make me more time-efficient.

It's almost Friday.

Day 4 of South Beach, significantly less painful than day 3 where I was ravenously hungry. 10 more days to go, and then I'll get to eat some bread and rice and pasta again (the way I keep my food bills down usually). I wanted to kill the carb cravings and even out my blood sugar, so two weeks of strict South Beach will hopefully do that for me. Well, not totally strict - there were some breadcrumbs in the salmon patty I bought which I didn't realize, and my salad dressing might have some sugar in it, and I eat more nuts than allowed - but I'm being pretty "good" so far. I totally protein-loaded at breakfast with turkey bacon and salmon/asparagus scrambled egg. This must make Tami's stomach hurl, but I didn't die of starvation so it's good.

OK, I can get some work done now I hope. It's another long day tomorrow, with four classes (five really, but I'm skipping Russian so that I can eat lunch). And I have two practice exams next week and two the following, which has me ultra-stressed-out because while I go to class prepared, I'm not at all prepared for exams. That's what Sunday's for.

And so is the life of a law student. I will not crack this week. Teaching is just the ticket, because for those four hours, I *can't* be studying, and I *can't* be eating carbs, and I *can't* be text messaging Dayton. Way to keep my mind off things. So far, so good.