Rundown of my day:5:00 AM: Wake-up, begin washing dishes and getting together ingredients to cook treats for school event.
6:00 AM: Get off computer after looking up conversion from ounces to cups.
6:15 AM: Get the popcorn started, begin mixing the caramel sauce.
6:30 AM: Trying to figure out where to store the popcorn. Don't have anything big enough to hold all the popcorn I plan on making. End up using garbage bag.
7:00 AM: Caramel sauce still too thin and I need to finish so I can wash up to get to school. Add cornstarch.
7:30 AM: Finish the food. Start gathering everything I made the night before and getting other supplies together.
7:44 AM: Oh shit! Hop in the shower. Come out, hop into my outfit.
8:00 AM: Can't find the lights I need for the haunted house.
8:30 AM: Finally find and gather everything. Out the door! If I left it too bad.
8:47 AM: Just missed the bus. Next one not til 10 min. Start looking up cab companies but the next bus is early.
9:05 AM: Time to transfer. Next bus is in 6 min. Put down the bags I'm hauling.
9:30 AM: Arrive at work. Put my bags down and run upstairs to watch my students perform their skits for Humanities class.
10:10 AM: Only a third of the way through and I'm light-headed. Haven't eaten anything.
10:15 AM: Someone brought pastries today. Thank God!
10:50 AM: Skits are over. I have a bit of time before lunch duty begins. Check-in with my boss. Return emails.
11:00 AM: Co-workers start to arrive. Send them to my office to finish prepping for this afternoon's event.
11:20 AM: Lunch duty starts.
12:30 PM: Have to stop 3 kids and remind them to finish chewing their lunch before coming out to recess.
12:40 PM: Lunch duty over. Jump in to help prep.
1:10 PM: Checked in with other teachers, they brought next to nothing for this afternoon's event. Gotta make a Wal-Mart run!
1:20 PM: Before I leave set up snack for the afterschool program and get attendance sheets.
1:25 PM: Out the door. Spend about $60 at Wal-Mart.
2:00 PM: Get back to school. Parent meeting! Need the receptionist to translate for me. Mom is a Spanish-speaker.
2:30 PM: Out of meeting. Luckily student is a star. Nothing but good things to say. Time to start getting redy for the event.
3:00 PM: Lord, help me not to hurt these children. Pulled in a zillion different directions.
3:45 PM: Down to the wire. Some kids can't pull it together and all I want to do is pee. Headed to the bathroom when another crisis hits.
3:50 PM: Crisis averted. I can pee.
4:00 PM: We're supposed to start but everything's not ready. Kids start lining up.
4:20 PM: Gotta start even if we're behind. The little kids are afraid of the Spooky Walk. We have some criers.
4:45 PM: First transition smooth. High school students are doing excellent.
5:05 PM: Second transition easy-peasy.
5:25 PM: Where are the extension cords?! Found them. Then found out I don't need them. Tme for the costume contest.
5:45 PM: They want to give two kids a tie. Send a teacher to make up more goody bags. I did not plan for this.
6:00 PM: Everyone got a prize. Kindergartener is crying cause he didn't win. Slip him some Play-Doh.
6:15 PM: Surprised to find the majority of the areas cleaned up. Time for the nitty-gritty. Vaccuming.
6:30 PM: Discover the kids spilled some fake blood on the carpet. Down on all fours scrubbing.
7:00 PM: Think I got it all. Checking the kitchen one last time.
7:15 PM: Inventorying what's left. Setting aside the good stuff as treats for the high school.
7:30 PM: Beat, afraid to go into my office cause it's one more thing i'll have to clean.
8:00 PM: Just got home, thanks to a ride from a co-worker. So glad I didn't have to get on the bus.
8:05 PM: Put down my bags. Realize I still have to cook. Want to pass out ... get up and make some spaghetti.
8:30 PM: Pour a glass of wine and sit down to eat. Now all I have to do is blog.
1 comment:
don't forget to vacuum the cat
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