I think I lost my thin blood from Southern living. It's honestly too hot outside today. Wow. And my office? Sweltering. Too bad I'm working unpaid overtime tonight. It's been a busy, busy day! Grr.
So today started off with a massive Technology meeting at the District level. Even now I can't figure out if I actually learned anything or not by attending. However, afterwords I did have a wonderful conversation with Vicky - one of the HS techs who is retiring at the end of the year. I got back to my building in time to see the mess that happens when I'm out of building for an extended period of time, answered phone calls, and so on... and then went out to lunch with Juan. I get back from lunch (after being scolded for taking lunch, because obviously techs don't need to eat) and walked into a half-dozen messages on my phone and someone in my office waiting for me. Promptly following was over an hour and a half of offsite trouble shooting with a local printing company whose hardware was too antiquated to open the PDF file that housed the yearbook. Then I had a teacher who manage to change every single file on her laptop to read only access and then wonder why she couldn't delete anything. A secretary who couldn't figure why the email was bouncing back to her (she forgot that emails don't just get sent to "Erin" there needs to be a location "@canby..." attached). And it went on from there.
Now it's officially unpaid overtime as I scramble to get two other laptops up and the lab ready for further student testing on Monday. I need a break... and a cold tea... and snuggles. But damn, it's hot outside.
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Somewhere back in the early 90's, I learned to ALWAYS take a lunch, and on or about time if at all possible. I'd had it with people coming back from lunch all excited and ready to work hard and they'd include me in meetings, etc and then I'd MISS lunch. That so sucked. So now I take one every single day. We even had a sales person who would schedule meetings like right at 12:45, etc - it was so weird. I told him that I wouldn't be available until 1:30 and he finally started scheduling them later.