Only Time for A Quick Post Today

It is Friday, and I need to get myself going. It is not an easy task this morning as I really am not enjoying my usual waking time these days. I just want to recline and sleep rather than get up and get going. I have about 15 minutes to make it to work 30 minutes early, 45 minutes to make it to work on-time, and and hour to make it to work at the last possible on-time moment.

Today is my easiest professional day in regards to doing the music therapy things. We have two groups and an individual session today. We have consultation/supervision and then planning/preparation/office task time. I am hoping that our Adult program will come by to vacuum, but we will see. They came at a strange hour last week - we were ready at 10:30, they arrived at 1. It was a bit odd. Hopefully, they will be there at 10:30 so they can actually vacuum. We have a group at 1 so the room isn't available.

ANYWAY...

Today's primary tasks include getting resources ready for our Country of the Month. I didn't do a bulletin board last month - things just got away from me, so I need to make one for this month. That is my first chore - resource list for teachers and bulletin board design. My next chore is to work on task box/file folders/resources for some of my fellow teachers and clients. After that, consultation with my intern about the week and assignments and other things as appropriate, and then the two groups and one individual session before bus duty.

Tomorrow is completely duty free - well, other than working on the blind review process for the Online Conference for Music Therapy. I have to get it ready and then release it to the Board of Directors. That's my task for this weekend. Well, that and removing the branches that someone cut off of a tree that is, apparently, my responsibility so the city will take them away. I guess I know what I am doing during my Labor Day off. I already have a saw, so I should [goblin] be able to get these branches lopped off and tied up pretty easily - if I can bend the way I need to bend...

Anyway. My time anxiety is twinging, so I will head upstairs and get ready to go. See you tomorrow??


By the way, what is the earliest that someone could use a saw in a residential area on a weekend?? Asking for (ahem) a friend...

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