Twelve HourThursday

Today is a 12 hour day for me, followed by an inservice day tomorrow. We have only one evening of parent-teacher conferences because the majority of our parents are not local, so we do most conferencing via telephone rather than face-to-face. We therapists are never involved in conferences, so it is an extra four hours of being at work but just because it is on the schedule - not because there is anything to do.

I hate these days, but at least we are down to only four rather than the ten we had several years ago. We have to work an entire day with clients before we do these late nights and then we have to turn around and come in for training the next day. It's difficult to do such a turn around with my medication schedule, so I tend to be cranky and in lots of pain on these days.

Tomorrow is another useless inservice day. I am not looking forward to it at all, but it seems that it is mandatory to attend - at least, we haven't been told otherwise. There is nothing more demoralizing for me than having to sit through an inservice on the curriculum that I am not allowed to use. Nothing.

Anyway, it is time to start the process of getting to work on time rather than early. I have done pretty well this week - I only have been five minutes early twice this week and 20 minutes early the other day this week. I just have difficulty figuring out how to time my commutes with my time anxiety so I can get places without being horribly early.

I took a bag of books to work this week. The quality assurance department is sponsoring a small little library, so I thought I would contribute some of the books that I have read or acquired but feel no compulsion to read again. I was happy to do it. It gave me a small bit of valuable bookshelf real estate, so I can get some of the boxed books out of the closet and see what I want to include in my library shelving! <y library is a bit scattered right now, but I will get it arranged.

My home library is scattered, but I am still able to function. I am currently trying to figure out what I am going to take with me to keep me occupied during the long hours after school. I don't want to just sit, but I really don't have much of an inspiration for any sort of project to keep me busy this afternoon/evening. 

Part of the time will be taken up with dinner. I am contributing cheese to the taco potluck, but I will not be eating anything since I don't know where it is cooked. This may sound snotty, but I have strange reactions to the local water treatment process that causes my colon to swell shut and gives me a bad infection. Rather than having to take lots of time off for an easily avoided situation, I choose not to partake of any food that I am not responsible for making. So, I will eat my food while others use my cheese to make their tacos.

I am just now trying my best to get myself upstairs to take a shower, pack up my cheese and dinner, and then head out to work. Not too early, though.

Happy Thursday. 

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