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Today I escaped for a little while. I read a favourite book, slept late, and that's about it. Something in me just needed a mental vacation.

Tomorrow will be a busy day, I'm excited! We are going in a boat into the Park nearby. We won't go all the way in, just up to the edge. We're going to stop and pick berries and look around a whilte before coming back. It will be nice to get out of town for a few hours, even if it doesn't involve a beer.

Before that, I will try to get some work done at school. The art room is still a disaster. It's frustrating... I wish I had had more time before school started to get it in shape. Or, rather, I wish the last two teachers hadn't done absolutely nothing to keep the room in order. The science room was wonderfully organized. But the frustrating thing is that I need to teach art in the art room - especially when I have both groups of tens - and I can't teach in there until everything is organized and put away. First of all, I need to know if I have all the necessary bits for, say, airbrushing. Second, tidy shelves don't invite mischief the way disorganized ones do. What makes things hard is that I have so much first-month-of-school work to do, and I am only willing to spend so many hours at school on a given day. And I need real time off on the weekend.

So that leaves me stagnating in the art-room-cleaning department.

But tomorrow should be good. I want to enjoy my time out on the water. I love these mountains, but I need some open space.