Yes...but I feel dead. Let's go through a run down of my week at work.
Monday:
1. Arrive to work at 8am.
2. Students return to school.
3. Resource and speech classes are scheduled to start Thursday.
4. Keri, Martha, Annette and I spend the day completing paperwork and filing.
5. Prepare handouts and presentation for faculty meeting Tuesday morning.
6. Get kicked out of the building at 5:30pm.
Tuesday:
1. Arrive to work at 7:30am.
2. Present at faculty meeting.
3. Get info from county to hold training sometime this week.
4. Meet with our tech people to reserve computer lab time.
5. Uh-oh, lab only open on Thursday and Friday.
6. Talk to A.P.'s and get approval to hold training on Thursday and start resource and speech classes on Friday.
7. Email classroom teachers...they are not happy about the later start date.
8. Keri, Martha, Annette, and I spend the day administering individual student placement tests. Finish more paper work at leave at 5:15pm.
Wednesday:
1. Arrive to work at 8am.
2. Keri, Martha, Annette, and I completed more paperwork: assigning students to resource classes, assigning caseload managers, etc...
3. Prepare for training on Thursday.
4. Leave at 5pm.
Thursday:
1. Wake up with cramps at 3am...take drugs and go back to bed for a little while.
2. Arrive to work at 7:15am.
3. Prepare to teach new software.
4. Uh-oh...someone did not tell our tech people to add additional software to our laptops.
5. Tech people make changes...start training at 9:15am.
6. Training all day...staff now officially dislikes me.
7. Finish training at 2pm and try to begin entering info on the live site.
8. Shit...none of the laptops will work on the live site.
9. Call support person at county office...we try to fix the problem over the phone.
10. It's 2:30 and it still doesn't work on the live site.
11. Call in tech person (Jan).
12. I work with Jan until 4:30pm...problem fixed.
13. Time to leave and no info has been entered into the live site.
14. Tell A.P.'s about tech problems...get approval to postpone classes until Monday. (Teachers really like us now!)
15. Leave work at 5pm.
16. In bed asleep by 7:30pm.
Friday:
1. Arrive to work at 8am.
2. Keri, Annette, Martha, and I meet with all resource students in cafe.
3. Give students schedules and let them decorate their resource folders.
4. Back to lab at 10am.
5. I work on setting up caseloads online (all day).
6. Annette, Martha, and Keri work on entering data into live site.
7. Site runs well but no clear directions given by county office on how to handle missing paperwork etc...
8. Leave lab at 3pm...everyone is in a REALLY BAD MOOD and people are starting to act REALLY werid (breaking into song and dance without any warning!)
9. Work in classroom to prepare for students on Monday.
10. Leave school at 5:15pm feeling totally unprepared for Monday and completely exhausted.
Now I am home and way to tired to finish the last two papers for my final grad school class. I think I will be asleep before 9pm tonight. There are so many other little things that have happened but I just haven't had the time or energy to write about it.
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