music, therapy, and me

This evening is the beginning of OCMT - the Online Conference for Music Therapy's annual conference. So, I am awake an hour before I set my alarm, sitting here, trying to figure out when I am going to get all sorts of things done before tomorrow morning when I have to be moderating presentations. Today is not a snow day...yet. I am not holding out much hope that it will be a snow day at all, but another snow day would be really convenient for me. So, that means that it will not happen. I will do my usual things for this conference. I will spend some time explaining to people that they cannot register after the fact. I will send lots of links to panicked presenters who didn't register. I will be present for the opening part of the ceremony, and then I will head out to get some sleep while the other folks take their turn at the helm. I will come back when I wake up. I am an early morning type person, so I will be helping out in the early morning hours. Then, I present on music th...

  I am getting ready to head back to work today after five days at home. I have a list of things to do in my bullet journal - take the laminators so we can laminate stuff; change the authentication for my work drive to my phone so I can share things on that account from home; talk to my senior intern about an upcoming interview; schedule Zoom meetings with day students for a bit of live programming; record new videos; put all the other videos into the Zoom account; finish up some of the choice boards for our residents; and then sending those same boards up to the residences. I am looking forward to being in my classroom for a bit, even if students are not allowed to come to the building. I anticipate that I will be spending most of the time sitting on the floor, either laminating things or cutting out laminate. In fact, I have a whole stack of laminated things that need to be cut out that I can take with me. It's an absurd time, to be sure. I am taking care to notice things about t...