Not Fun Friday

Here I am, sitting at my desk in a hazy mental fog caused by taking my medications 2 hours late due to my 12-hour work day yesterday. I have to report early for physical behavior management training and CPR (again! I did it in November, but they have decided that I have to do it again - I am not happy). After that, we have a faculty meeting and a pizza luncheon sponsored by the Executive Team. I am not able to participate in food-based events due to a strange response to the water in the town where I work. So, I will make my appearance and then skedaddle from the lunch. I am curious to see if anyone from the Executive Team will actually be at the luncheon.

I forget how much my medication affects me until these days. My eyes don't focus right, and I am overly tired until the medication wears off a bit. It is always interesting to track when my medication wears off. I feel more pain but my brain goes faster and processes information better when it reaches its end. I fully credit this medication for my ability to move around, but I also find that it affects what I can do.

I am not really looking forward to today, but it is needed for my role at the facility. I will take my arthritis pain medication when I get to work to help me with the movements that I will have to demonstrate today. It is 6am, and I really want to not work extra time today. I need as much time at home as possible to get over the eye things happening, but I have to leave.

I really do not enjoy having to work so many late nights. The good news is that I only have four more in my future at the facility. There is something really comforting about a "use by" date in the form of a retirement. Unless something tremendously earth shattering happens in the next sixteen months, I will be leaving my current music therapy job to retire from school service and to go into my next iteration of this profession.

I have no idea what I want to do next. I know that I want some time to relax after I finish my job, and then I will find something. I am kind of interested in working as a music therapist still, but I am also thinking that working in a craft store might be a good way to keep myself busy and involved in working at something but not music therapy for a while. I am also toying with the idea of developing my small business a bit more. I am not worrying about it right now because it is still over a year away, but I might be doing some stuff about all of this during this next break. We will see.

Time to go. My brain is starting to work a bit better. I wish I was able to wait until the sun was up, but I can't. I have to get going.

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