This is just me crying out in the wilderness ... just pretending someone is at the other end of the phone, so to speak ...
Having been on "intersession" (I work in a year-round school) for the last two weeks, I have been giving myself all kinds of self-talk about balance and putting family first and not being super woman ...
So, first day back -- I am calm -- I have it together -- we get through a marathon of classes. I turn my attention to something with a deadline ... I run out of time ... have to go to my daughter's parent/teacher conference ... end up quickly writing a note on a poster we are making for a colleague who is dying of cancer as I race out the door ...
Ten minutes late to conference, but that's ok; I called ahead. Pick up kids; gorgeous day; let them play on the playground. Go home; they practice piano; work with tutor; do homework; and I start to get dinner served when I check my voicemail ...
DEADLINE!!! FOR BIG EVENT!!! SPONSOR ORGANIZATION A BIT PO'd because they need my part done tomorrow by 9 am.
My bad (sort of; we have been on intersession for the last two weeks and the info I needed was from colleagues who were out of town, as was I for most of it).
I barely held it together. Told the kids I had a sudden huge thing and was stressed and sorry we couldn't go Halloween shopping after dinner and to just eat, play, shower and head to bed (I am single mom).
They did great great great, the dear souls, but I am beside myself. I feel like an idiot for not paying attention to the details about deadlines for this project/event (still not sure I could had done it any sooner); feeling embarrassed the person who made the contact in the first place (a neighbor) had to call me at home (I left work early for the parent teacher conference) and feeling absolutely overwhelmed already -- one day back -- by work.
I have to work until 6:30 tomorrow on teacher research. I just emailed the research coordinator to let her know I will be leaving at 6 pm so I can take my girls Halloween shopping tomorrow instead. Can't do it Wed -- Halloween Parade; can't do it Thurs (project due for my all day class on Sat -- Thurs after work is the ONLY day I can work on it).
I just didn't see this coming ... I was handling it and BAM!
M
Having been on "intersession" (I work in a year-round school) for the last two weeks, I have been giving myself all kinds of self-talk about balance and putting family first and not being super woman ...
So, first day back -- I am calm -- I have it together -- we get through a marathon of classes. I turn my attention to something with a deadline ... I run out of time ... have to go to my daughter's parent/teacher conference ... end up quickly writing a note on a poster we are making for a colleague who is dying of cancer as I race out the door ...
Ten minutes late to conference, but that's ok; I called ahead. Pick up kids; gorgeous day; let them play on the playground. Go home; they practice piano; work with tutor; do homework; and I start to get dinner served when I check my voicemail ...
DEADLINE!!! FOR BIG EVENT!!! SPONSOR ORGANIZATION A BIT PO'd because they need my part done tomorrow by 9 am.
My bad (sort of; we have been on intersession for the last two weeks and the info I needed was from colleagues who were out of town, as was I for most of it).
I barely held it together. Told the kids I had a sudden huge thing and was stressed and sorry we couldn't go Halloween shopping after dinner and to just eat, play, shower and head to bed (I am single mom).
They did great great great, the dear souls, but I am beside myself. I feel like an idiot for not paying attention to the details about deadlines for this project/event (still not sure I could had done it any sooner); feeling embarrassed the person who made the contact in the first place (a neighbor) had to call me at home (I left work early for the parent teacher conference) and feeling absolutely overwhelmed already -- one day back -- by work.
I have to work until 6:30 tomorrow on teacher research. I just emailed the research coordinator to let her know I will be leaving at 6 pm so I can take my girls Halloween shopping tomorrow instead. Can't do it Wed -- Halloween Parade; can't do it Thurs (project due for my all day class on Sat -- Thurs after work is the ONLY day I can work on it).
I just didn't see this coming ... I was handling it and BAM!
M
