music, therapy, and me

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 demoraliz...

Today is a 12-hour day schedule at my school job. We have these days every so often where we are required to stay for longer than our contracted hours to accommodate parent/teacher conferences or professional development. When these days happen on Wednesdays, it is always challenging for me since I have a Wednesday evening job already and cannot do the full 12 hours on Wednesday evenings. We have one last 12-hour day on our calendar, and that is on a Thursday, so I will be able to stay for the entire time on that night. The number of evenings we have to stay late have decreased significantly with our new administration. We used to have 10 of these nights per year! TEN! It was ridiculous, and we put an end to that since our school district only has 4 of these nights as part of our contract time. We had 6 extra night obligations that no one else in the district had to do. We now match the district expectations, and that is very helpful, especially for me. I am not an evening person. At a...