Wow. I am tired and it's only Tuesday. Tuesday morning at 6:45am as I start writing this. I hope to write the post in about 10 minutes flat. I've got no time.

I was sick this weekend and spent a considerable amount of time at the doctors office for an illness that would have barely garnered a blink in the States. More on this adventure to follow. I am happy to report that I am feeling considerably better today. Nothing some antibiotics, some vitamins and copious amounts of tea can solve.

I've also had cut out coffee. Normally this would drive me crazy. I'd be dreaming about coffee. Plotting how I'd secure my next cup. Making up excuses for why I should be drinking coffee. But frankly, I've been so busy I've hardly noticed my coffee-less state. That is until this morning when I had a hard time pulling myself out of bed.

Sunday I made a second trip to the doctors for some tests. Everything was as expected. Then I went downtown. I had lunch at the <a href="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/2010/12/05/sofias-taqueria/" target="_blank">Taqueria</a>. For the record, the tacos are great too! Then I went on a shopping spree in one of my favorite scarf/sweater/accessory shops. I basically bought them out. Well not quite but I was glad to learn that they were having a sale 30% off. I had to pick up a gift my school secret santa. I found a really beautiful necklace and a candle holder only to spend the rest of the day sure that I was going to fall on the ice and break the gift.

From shopping, I headed to my Bulgarian lesson. <!--more-->I am happy to report that somehow last week I found time to do my Bulgarian homework. This is good because for the previous two weeks I was an incredibly bad student. She gave me a book in Bulgarian with a 101 Bulgarian stories which is so nice.

And she looked for a book that had big print and wasn't in italics. I have a really hard time reading things in italics from my text book when they do textboxes in italics to menus. Probably I should be working on this problem rather than avoiding it but all things in good time.

I started reading it last night in bed. I read the first paragraph. The big problem was that I'd already climbed into bed before I realized I didn't know the noun вол. Turns out this an ox. Now I am going to have to re-read that first paragraph. I have a hunch this is going to be a slow read.

Yesterday, I taught 6 classes (or three blocks) in a row. The English Language Inspector finally came to my English class after sitting in on my American Culture and American TV elective on Friday. Turns out I did a good job teaching 1984 but maybe there was too much tv in my elective. That's the thing about feedback sometimes it can be completely helpful other times there's no getting around the inherent problem.  Luckily, my students in my regular English class were extremely well behaved and even my gaggle of 9th grade boys in my elective preformed better than normal on the last Friday class before Christmas.

After school, we had rehersal for the Christmas concert I am preforming in tonight. Then I wrote updated my grades, wrote comments for students I am worried about and sent out a few emails before yet another Christmas party at school with other International teachers. I called for a taxi at 10:30 last night after spending the better part of my day at school and I was in bed by 11pm.

When my alarm clock started ringing today at 5:45 I ignored it. It felt like the right thing today.