Amazingly, the first couple days of workshops have gone relatively well. Even the co-worker who managed to crush my very soul last Wednesday has been tolerable, even pleasant, and the annual reorganization of my room is going fairly well. (Though, as with every sorting or reorganizing task I've undertaken since the age of six, I have ADD like you ( Read more... )

Man, this always happens. If I don't go on any trips during time off from work, I inevitably find myself wondering, at the end of that time, whether I accomplished enough. (Yes, I am an oldest child.) I had high hopes for these particular two weeks, as I believe I mentioned in my last entry, and I've been a bit melancholy the past couple days as I ( Read more... )

This summer at work has been a strange combination of too much and nothing at all. Either I was trying to prepare seven different lunches for seven clamoring kids or I was sitting on the floor with one lone child and trying not to doze off. I went from being completely tied up in knots over relicensure and the new policy manual and fire inspections ( Read more... )