Exhausted, but not giving up the fight

This week, I probably could have gone to bed at 8 o'clock each night. But I managed to stay up past 10:30 each night.  Why?  Because grown-ups don't go to bed before 10 pm...or at least not if you're someone other than my mother. I think I need to rethink this perspective, because teaching while tired is a bit like swimming with sharks while you're bleeding.  Students can sense weakness...then they keep picking away, pushing, prodding...and you can't leave, you can't give up- you have to keep trying to teach, no matter how tired or exhausted or drained you feel. Here's to getting enough sleep...even if it's a too-early bedtime.