Half the battle of being a teacher is learning how to NOT say everything that you want to a student. For example, when a student asks if he can turn on the air conditioner, it is very difficult not to respond with one of the following:
"Can you spell 'air conditioner'?"
"No, because I don't want you to spread your post-P.E. funk around the room."
"You can turn it on after you remove it from the window so I can jump out of it."
I used to relieve my stress/anxiety/hallucinations with a lunchtime venture to my dealer, AKA Starbucks, at a rate of $5 per fix. Needless to say that I was running a double-digit tab by Tuesday. So what is my new free fix? A yogi-led group "WOOSAH!" at the beginning of each of my classes. We close our eyes, inhale through our noses, exhale through our mouths, and then cycle through rounds of whispering/saying/screaming "WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSAH!" until I feel my eye stop twitching. I know it's working because I haven't felt the itching in the back of my throat due to withdrawal. I also don't crash at 530 on the Parkway going 65 mph.
Try it out... Your pockets and your parietal lobe will thank you later.
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