More planting

Planted the daisy by the front door, like I thought I might. It looks right at home there. I'll post a photo as soon as I get it off my camera.

Went to my workout class tonight for the first time in over 6 weeks. Can I just say: ugh. Ack. My instructor even gave me the "tsk tsk" when I was alternating arms instead of using both at the same time during the weights session. I told him not to pick on me, that I'd been on holiday, sitting on my bum and eating pie and cookies for weeks. He forgave me, fortunately.

Worked long today and met with the two other teachers afterwards. One of them frustrates me a bit, always trying to get out of doing a fair share of work. But it wasn't too bad, and we won't have to work together too much after this, I don't think. We spent the meeting planning the syllabus for our academic English course for the next three weeks. We're each going to be teaching the same syllabus to a different group. It'll be nice knowing in advance what I'll be doing and being able to plan and assess the group afterwards. That's a rare thing at my school these days.

Still having trouble sleeping. I woke up at 5:30 am again, with the sunrise. So I pinned up a bedsheet and a blanket to the inside of the curtains in the bedroom, and I light-blocked the glass pane at the top of the door, so sunlight can't come in from the spare room down the hall, either. We'll see how much light gets in at 5:30 tomorrow morning! Ha! Sleep, here I come!