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The senior phase element of Curriculum for Excellence and storing my sundries are both proving stressful.
Beside my bed is a two-drawer unit containing an assortment of socks and sundry items. Last week, someone organised them. Instead of the usual tumble of cotton, there were Ikea separators marshalling items into colour-coded pens, where they sat, neatly folded, waiting to be utilised.
I was discombobulated. Generally I like precision and organisation. I can't leave my classroom at the end of the day without pushing in all the seats, straightening the books on the library shelf, and closing the windows. But the drawers seemed too much - as if a last secret place of carefree chaos had been removed.
Taking the dividers...