Cause and effect

I was in a rotten mood last week, and I'm wondering if it's because I mostly stopped exercising. I strained my hamstring in ballet a couple of weeks ago and it was bothering me, so I wanted to give it time to heal. All I did last week was 1 ballet class. I wonder if the lack of exercise was the cause of my irritability?

In unrelated but good news, another teacher and I put together a grant application that was approved for our school. We are starting an after school science program for girls--it will have 5 modules focusing on different science areas and each will have a guest speaker or two and a field trip at the end. Everything will be paid for, which is just wonderful. It's really going to be a lot of work, but it is nice to know that I'm doing some work on one of the things that drew me to middle school in the first place--the opportunity to encourage girls to pursue careers in math and science. I am helping to organize the program and teaching one of the modules. I'll also be starting to meet with the Science Olympiad team very shortly, probably next week.