What a week! But what possible rewards!!

It has been a week of mxed emotions. I have been so excited to realize all the wonderful Web 2.0 and beyond tools out there just waiting to be discovered and used in our classrooms. I am optimistic about incorporating them into my lessons and already have created some draft plans for future library and computer lessons. The key will be to use them sooner rather than later. In the past, I have caught myself claiming I would use a certain tool someday and then finding that the "someday" never came. My resolution is to use the tools that are out there even befor feeling comfortable with them. The students and I can learn together and from each other. If I wait to become comfortable with these applications before teaching them to students, they may remain simply "future plans".
So that's the exciting part. Then there's the ever present uncomfortable feeling that I can never get done what I need to. This has been a demanding year and sometimes I feel that it is physically impossible for me to do all that I am trying to do. How does one juggle a full time teaching job, coordinating and directing an after school chorus with many gigs around the community, giving guitar lessons, taking care of a family, and helping a high school senior with all the extra scholarship applications and trips to colleges, and last but certainly not least complete the many assignments, reading, and discussion posts for two graduate courses? If anyone has any good suggestions, please offer them to me. I never turn down advice or constructive criticism.
The good news is that what I lack in time or strength, or even intelligence, I make up for in my determination to make all of this work and hopefully work well. I try to smile a lot and complain only a little and keep my sense of humor along with the hope that things will all work out the way they should and that the rewards of all my hard work will be so much greater than I can ever imagine.And so, back to work.