Good thing I have some iced tea to pep me up. Okay, so the ice has melted. I have tea to wake me up. Change the Pandora station from Classic Country to something a little more up beat. Fingers now moving, Buffett comes on, very nice I can get something accomplished. Not thinking about summer and the end of school, cold PBR or the pool at all.
"Sigh" Still locked in the windowless closet I call an office.
Anyone else have these days? I know it is Friday but this is ridiculous. In education I call this the end of the year. This is the time when school is ending, students are getting excited and doing less work, while teachers look like zombies as they clean up rooms and worry that everyone will fail finals and they may be asked to teach summer school.
For me this is the time when I have to evaluate technology to keep, get rid of and store. Inventory takes on a life of its own and as is the case for many years now I won't be bursting forth from the doors of the school that last day. (Schools Out by Alice Cooper from Dazed and Confused)
This summer will see me as a producer and director for staff development videos. I will be building, creating and opening a new chapter in my districts efforts to become more efficient with developing the best educators we can. Yes, I am excited and ready to release my creative side with some new ideas and to start building my vision for professional development but on a Friday morning, post donut with hot iced tea I am lethargic.
You see I remember the good old days. The days when the teachers worked that day after the students and then went home for three months to be free to do what they want. I remember being told by Doc to just dump all of our paper out of our locker onto the floor the last day, when I stayed in Perrysville for the city wide water fight the last day, or even when I would get in the old Topaz (don't miss that car) and head to the field to get in the 2805 to work the fields because planting was running late.