Getting ready for the big to-do here at the school. Open day is tomorrow. They want to have a rehearsal this afternoon, but I have to leave at 3 to go to a parent teacher meeting for William. It is at 4:30. Just barely gives me enough time to get there. I told them no but have not heard back from them yet. Hopefully they get the message. They know I leave at 3, so why schedule a meeting when I am supposed to be gone. He cancelled the other two meetings that were before this rehearsal, but he knew I leave at 3. Guess I will hear from him eventually.
The EKKA is coming up in two weeks, or something like that. I think we go on August 14 and this is July 27, so about two weeks. I am looking forward to five days off in a row. I get off Friday and don't have to be back until the following Thursday. I took Monday and Tuesday off and Wednesday is a holiday, so I get that one for free. 5 whole days. I can really use that. I should have taken the whole week off, but I don't have that much vacation time accrued yet. Plus, they would be mad that I took time off for the EKKA and not for going to Tasmania with them.
That happens soon also, in November. Not really a vacation for me, but it does mean I don't have to cook for everyone for a week, so it is kind of like a vacation for me. I think it is pizza and spaghetti for me every night. Maybe I will throw in a really hot curry. Been a while since I got to cook for only myself. Not that I don't try but as I like to say, every meal I cook, someone has to suffer with me leaving something out. Most of the time, it is me, but since I have to cook at least two different versions of every meal, it gets pretty bad when I have to cook four different versions.
One version for William, no onions, no vegetables. One for Maeghan, no mushrooms, a few vegetables. One for everyone else, no hot stuff. And then there is me, and I am the one doing the cooking, so things sometimes slip in that I like but the majority doesn't. It's tough to cook for all these different people all the time. I keep telling everyone, this is not a restaurant, and you don't get to order what you like. You eat what I make and pick out the things you don't like. But I try to make it so no has to eat anything they do not want. Always done it that way, but a week where I don't have to think about it before I cook, seems a lot like a vacation.
William goes for his fitting today. I have no idea where they are going but it is not at school. I still don't know what it is they are doing, just know he says he is getting a suit, good luck with finding one that fits him, and they get to keep it. I am guessing it is from donations, but I really don't know. We will see what he comes back with.
Maeghan paid for her graduation yesterday. They have to pay for themselves and pay for any others that are attending. Seems like some kind of money grab. There were all sorts of options she could buy. Flowers, a hat, a bear, I don't really remember them all. It ended up costing her over $100. Probably means I have to pay her back for it. She did pay for it herself but that is a lot a money when you don't have an income. It happens in August, I think. I thought it was this week but it turns out it is August. Only her mother and I are going. William, I don't think he is allowed, or that is what I overheard them saying. I don't know why. Maybe it is because he is under 18 and they do not allow kids at this thing. He is 6 foot 7, so I don't think he qualifies as a kid. He didn't really care, or he says he doesn't. I think he wants to be there, but he has accepted he doesn't get to go. Besides, Maeghan would have had to pay for him too and it was getting too much money for all of us to go. I am going to offer to pay for it and ask if it is too late to add William. If it is, I will still give her the money back. If I had known she was doing it, I would have paid for it in the first place, but she didn't tell me she was doing it right then. I thought she was just looking at her options. But is done, so I will just have to pay her pack.
There doesn't seem to be a lot going on at school today. I took yesterday off so I could be with Juanita. She asked me to since it was the anniversary of her father's death, and she didn't want to stay at home by herself. Maeghan was there but I guess it is not the same. I spent the day playing on the tv and she stayed in the back on the computer. I am sure she spent the day talking to all her friends online about it but she occasionally came out to sit with me and I occasionally went in the sit with her. I had to go pick up William when he got out of school, and then start dinner when I got home, but I think she got through it ok. Hopefully, she is doing ok today. I have only talked to her a couple times this morning and it is afternoon now. Haven't heard anymore from her yet. She did say her new glasses are in, so I assume she has gone down to pick them up. She has to pick me up after work since we are going to William's thing. I think she is picking me up at the wrong station but that is where she said she will be, so that is where she is picking me up. I don't plan on going shopping today, which is where we normally go today, but she is picking me up at the same station that we do when we go shopping. The is a closer one, but I just ok and will meet her there.
Since I have been typing this since this morning, I am not sure what I have said. Today is meet William's teachers at his school. Tomorrow is Open day at my school. I have to work all day, from 6:30 in the morning to about 10:00 at night. They told me to come in late, but the students are still here so who will be here for them in the morning if I am late. Lots of kids come in early, before school starts, so someone has to be here to help them. I suppose I will just work the whole day. Might get a break for dinner but for the most part, it is just a meet and greet and answer people's questions about the school. Since I am relatively new, I don't know if I will have a lot of answers for them, but I am sure I can make something up. I just had the big boss out here with the two littler bosses and they were discussing if this room will be open or not. They also wanted to go over sample questions people might ask and the answers we might give them. I managed to keep my mouth shut but really, what exactly are these people afraid of. Just talk to the people. If you don't know, then say you don't know. Are they afraid of the public. They are in the wrong profession. I have done this for so long, talking to the public is the least of my worries. You go into these things knowing that you are the expert and nothing they can ask will change that or make any difference. What exactly are these people made of. But I didn't speak up. Let them cringe and worry about it. I am a professional. I don't get rattled.
One of the questions they came up with is what if someone asks what we are doing about AI. They said we had to come up with an official policy before tomorrow night. I left the conversation after that. Am I old or to curmudgeonly. I don't get it and I don't care. So they ask about AI. Make something up. No one is going to check up on you and no one is going to come back in five years and tell you how wrong you were. Make it up. If you don't think you can make it up, then say someone is working on it and we will have an answer soon. No need to mess your pants over a question. I guess since I am not going to be in the meeting to discuss this, they will just have to figure it out on their own. Not my problem. Maybe it is, but I don't get it and I don't care.
I have started on one of my rants. I will stop. I have a headache. I have to go to lunch anyway. There are several girls walking rapidly towards me, so I assume they want something, and they want it quick. Teachers tend to send the students down if something stops working in class or one of the girls has a problem and the teacher does not want to deal with it. They send them to IT and tell them to ask us to fix it. I had a girl just a few minutes ago ask me to fix her glasses for her. Her screw had fallen out and luckily, she had found it. I told her I can't even see the screw and there was no way I would be able to fix it for her. I offered to hold the glasses together while she screwed it in. We did that and amazingly, it worked. She got the screw back in. I don't know how long it is going to last, but it was working when she left. Another of those amazing IT solutions I am constantly coming up with.
I am going to go to lunch now. I am tired of typing, and I am constantly making mistakes. I must be tired. It is making it hard to make any sense anymore. That must be my signal to stop doing this and do something else. Plus, I am being sent to the HPE room to do something. I don't know what. We will see.
Until next time,
Later
Remember
It will all be ok in the end, and if it's not ok, then it's not the end.
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