Okay, so the first week of school really, really sucked. Well, actually the first four days did, but Friday, well Friday went fairly well.
I have never had so many people who needed so much all at one time from me. I totally don't remember it being like this last year. And to tell you about my first week, I have to go back to last Friday, before school started.
Well, Cathy, my centering rod, had to leave early for a funeral, so I was left alone. And that's when things started to fall apart. Everything I touched went south. I moved a network printer from one classroom to another and it lost its IP address. Just in case you are reading this and don't understand what that means, here's the translation - it worked in one room, and then it lost its freaking mind and didn't work in the next. In less than five minutes.
And then I go back to my library, dog tired, and it's a mess - things everywhere. You don't know this, but over the summer, people "find" things and drop them off in the library - odd electronic things, carts, tables, SMART board stands with no SMART board. So I had all of this stuff to deal with, because I had been out in classrooms working. And the tables - this was really one of my biggest problems.
My library is only so big, and we have tables on both ends. Well for the first workday when we had our afternoon long faculty meeting, almost all of the tables were crammed on one end. And they stayed that way. Until this Tuesday - when school had started. And being a spatial kind of person who has to see some kind of order, let me tell you that was the last straw - no one to help, because now I can't move tables and things with my back - which really pisses me off.
So, I left. I packed up my stuff and left last Friday. Came home and was so un-nerved, I cried. Yes folks, that's how bad it was and how tired I was - I cried, because this would be the worst opening of school I had ever had.
And then I sat on my fat, happy ass all weekend and rested.
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