Mixed Bag

Things that are good:

• We're making real progress in getting ready for the state test.  Our prep camp seems to be working.  The students seem to enjoy it, and I feel more confident about them than I have in a very long time.
• My cousin is coming home for a long visit.  He's more like a brother than a cousin, and I haven't seen him in a very long time.  I am so excited that he's actually going to be here.
• There are fewer than 35 days remaining in this school year.  I might be able to do that.
• There are fewer than 70 days remaining until I can go geek out with my fellow AP teachers in Louisville.
• Topamax has taken ten pounds off me.
• I didn't have a headache today.

Things that are bad:

• I've started having more missing and mispronounced words than usual.  The Topamax is dancing around in my head like someone with a fork making scrambled eggs.  It's terrible.  It makes me feel like a fool, and not in a carefree, happy way.
• I have way, way more bills than money right now.  I don't know what I'm going to do about that.  Trying to ignore it isn't exactly working.
• I'm fighting losing battles on many fronts.  I don't know how to turn these defeats into victories, or if it's time to fold tents, cut losses, participate in other cliches, and walk away.

That's life in Podunk today.