Week #2, more to push the envelope

O.k., so what is it that challenge me today at work??? Let me count them...let's see, a door that continues to stick and no one bothers to properly fix. Restrooms that remain locked during the day. With only a seven minute break and a locked staff door, the student restrooms are the last resort, but when they are locked, there's simply not enough time to dash to another building to pee. Oh, Genesis locks up and won't properly print, and then everything gets jammed causing me to restart the computer

I still don't know how to set up a web page, and my students are more clueless than I, which is very scary.

On the home front, did I tell you the pond pump went out? A quick trip to Home Depot did resolve that, but it's too hot to do that kind of running around. I can't forget to find someone to trip my palm trees before they make a total mess.

Breathe in, breathe out.

Living on the edge

By "on the edge..." I don't mean edgy, I mean the basic life premise of survival that is on the tipping point, feeling that one is just not quite going to make it. The little daily events that push one to the edge, that test one's daily basic sense of sanity.

Today's "edge" was Genesis being down, a phrase that sparked concern with our high school students that thought maybe someone fell down, or was hurt, worse yet, maybe even shot. For teachers, it meant that the new district-wide grading/attendance/scheduling system was not in operation. Not a big deal under normal circumstances, but at the start of the year, very frustrating. My internal advice, roll with it.

Oh, then the electricity blinked and caused my computer to turn off. Not such a big deal until I realized the presentation screen turned purple and was no longer talking to my computer. Bad purple screen!