The Small-Minded Part of Back to School

Picking out that first-day-of-teaching outfit tonight: most of my old pants still don't fit. It is so hard to claw my way back to some semblance of my old body. I know it's petty and I don't ever want to talk about it in front of the kids. But man, I don't like the way things are right now. It's a slow work in progress, I guess.