I’m not sure what’s ailing me, but I’ve been knocked out by low energy lately. So much so that on Tuesday I closed my office door and actually fell asleep on the floor for awhile. I dragged myself down the hall for my 4pm class, my pre-service-mostly-English-teachers class, and walked them through the process of creating their first web page. A few minutes into the class, I felt wide awake. I don’t think anyone outside my head would have noticed, but I fell completely into the rhythm of teaching, all gears connecting, energy flowing exactly where it was needed. I was high on it. Endorphins washed away my fatigue. One of the students wanted to set up his own domain for some charitable work he’s doing, so I stayed after class and walked him through the GoDaddy pages and by 7pm he had his own piece of internet real estate.
There’s something about teaching. We’re not in it for the money, so it must be this other thing that keeps us at it.