My Life Is A Multiple-Choice Quiz

   It is Friday.  It is the first day of autumn and it happens to be about 142 degrees outside (well, maybe only 95 degrees, but it seems hotter than that).  While we do have air-conditioning at school, the room was never what you would call "comfortable" today.  Besides, once a middle schooler starts sweating at lunch break, the aroma does not go away just because he comes into the semi-air-conditioned classroom. For me, the advent of the weekend has promises of rest and recuperation from the busy schedule of teaching.  It might allow me to rest up and be prepared to go again come Monday morning (although I always feel more optimistic about that now on Friday afternoon than I do on Sunday evening).  I feel as though my health is fine, but I have some frustrations and lingering questions about it (presented as a multiple choice quiz -- that's the way we teachers do it):

1. I am tired at the end of the day.  The primary cause of this exhaustion is:
     a.) I am a middle school teacher.  It always happens that way to everybody.
     b.) I am still recovering from my bone-marrow transplant.
     c.) I am getting older...by the day.
     d.) It just varies from day to day.  There is no primary cause.
     e.) I am just a whiner.

2. My joints are stiff and sore when I first start moving in the morning.  The primary cause of this is:
     a.) I am a middle school teacher.  It always happens that way to everybody.
     b.) I am still recovering from my bone-marrow transplant.
     c.) I am getting older...by the day.
     d.) It just varies from day to day.  There is no primary cause.
     e.) I am just a whiner.

3. I cannot gain weight or strength.  The primary cause of this is:
     a.) I am a middle school teacher.  It always happens that way to everybody.
     b.) I am still recovering from my bone-marrow transplant.
     c.) I am getting older...by the day.
     d.) It just varies from day to day.  There is no primary cause.
     e.) I am just a whiner.

4. I like my students...but only most of the time.  The primary cause of this is:
     a.) I am a middle school teacher.  It always happens that way to everybody.
     b.) I am still recovering from my bone-marrow transplant.
     c.) I am getting older...by the day.
     d.) It just varies from day to day.  There is no primary cause.
     e.) I am just a whiner.

   You are welcome to take this assessment for yourself, but I really don't have the Answer Key ready yet.  The tricky thing is that some of these could be answered by a combination of options or even by the response that always loomed large for me when I was a student: "f.) All of the above."  I never liked that one as an option though -- as a student I think I checked that one every time just to be sure I got at least part of the question right.
   Well, it's a weekend.  Thinking about it a little more, maybe I should wait and take this quiz for myself in about 48 hours.  My self-assessment will probably be more accurate then.