Margaret Hale (ecoutez_moi) wrote in new_directions, @ 2010-10-18 21:51:00 |
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[Monday lunchtime, Staff Lounge, Maggie/Open to staff]
Was the semester really half over already? Maggie wondered as she claimed an empty table in the McKinley High staff lounge. It felt like it had just begun.
She then wondered if she was the only teacher who seemed to need as much time as her students to get back into the academic groove, so to speak. Everyone else in the room thus far didn't seem to have that problem, she thought, looking around. They seemed to have been re-energized by the summer break and returned to work ready for anything.
On the other hand, it had been a rather difficult summer for her. Maggie's father's health, which was already a bit delicate, deteriorated a little and the stress had taken its toll on Maggie and her mother. He was hanging in there, though, thank God. They all were.