A Day In My Life - not typical

Ok - Tagged by Cousin Katey - It was a "department day" - so I was not in the classroom today:

6:10am - Alarm goes off - Rise to see roommate is in bathroom - in shower (snooze alarm - go back to bed for 9 minutes)

6:19 - alarm goes off again - roommate out of shower - I convince dogs they can wait until I'm dressed to go outside.

6:20 - leave cold bedroom (-4 degrees outside) to enter shower. Cold shower - roommate and housemates have apparently already showered.

6:25 - exit frigid water to put pjs back on - and attempt to "beautify" myself.

7:00 - exit bathroom to dress (crap - had hoped to be OUT THE DOOR by 7!!)

7:04 - completely dressed in "not seeing the kids today hoodie and jeans"

7:05 - put on jacket and shoes to bring dogs outside for "potty"

7:15 - back inside for treats and last minute grabbing of coffee - CRAP - creamer has chunks! - empty coffee mug - assess time - maybe if I hurry I can stop at Holiday on way to meeting!

7:19 - in car - thank god - no scraping needed!!

7:20 - leaving neighborhood - no time for my Holiday - will see how traffic goes - maybe I can stop in Anoka for coffee

7:37 - arrive in Anoka - traffic not bad - but meeting starts in 7 minutes - I will make this quick -

7:38 - stop at Sinclair for gas station coffee (and maybe a snack - as I rushed out without breakfast!!)

7:40 - no flavored cream - ughh - I passed

7:45 - arrive to meeting ON TIME!

10:25 - 1st half of meeting completed - uggh - we ran late - only 5 minutes of break before I have to be at the next part! Run to pee - and fill up water bottle (no coffee - and only a baggie of carrots consumed so far!)

10:30 - meet with 1 of 5 Elementary ESL Lead Teachers (transitioning 5th graders) - (colleague Joe is next to me - meeting with another Elementary Teacher from a 2nd school to help get this all done in one day!

11:55 - finished with that ONE school - Joe finished 2 smaller schools -

12:00 - leave building for lunch (YAY!) - made our way to Chipotle

12:10 - I don't like Chipotle - so I walk to neighboring Quizno's for a sub

12:15 - with toasted sub, baked chips, and diet pepsi in hand, enter Chipotle to enjoy lunch with the other Deptartment Leaders

12:28 - as teachers do, we were all done eating in less than 15 minutes

12:29 - what to do? - we find some things (unfortunately school-related) to talk about

12:50 - pile in cars to return to Anoka's meeting

1:00 - meet with 4th Elementary ESL Lead (only 1 of her 6 students will actually be registering as ESL next year) - heh - takes about 5 mintues

1:05 - meet with 5th and final Elementary Lead - had a lot of great questions - ended up bringing our (long-winded) Director in on our discussion

2:00 - pack up transition materials - head to Jackson

2:20 - enter parking lot @ Jackson - see Para Amy heading out - she gives me the "call me" sign

2:25 - enter office, turn on computer, call Amy's cell

2:30 - find Para Jane - who needs to talk to me

2:40 - walk into Counselors' office to find AP Jill

2:42 - am stopped by Counselor Amy who wants help figuring out how most efficiently to transition/schedule current 6th and 7th graders - is pleased to find out I finished 5th graders today

2:45 - am stopped by AP Becky about 2 7th graders who need a behavior plan because they are in the AP office too much - an missing too much class

2:50 - find AP Jill to talk about ******* (confidential info here) ********

3:10 - final bell rings - school is over

3:11 - stand in hall - talk with Counselor Kim about ******** (confidential info here) ********

3:12 - chat with Retired Teacher Sandy who subbed in my room today - whoops! Didn't leave paper for students to use on Book Report Projects. . .Oh well - they could use the time to READ instead! :) - Independent Reading Assignment/Book Reports DUE NEXT Wednesday - end of quarter next Friday - it's CRUNCH TIME, BABY!

3:15 - Niece Karly arrives to work on homeowork in my office (note - end of quarter crunch!)

3:16 - finally get to emails while Karly organizes her stuff

3:30 - start to compile the 5 spreadsheets from the Elementary ESL Leads into 1 document

3:31 - Karly leaves to go to her locker to get her planner (hmm. . didn't think she'd need that??)

3:35 - Karly returns with planner - which isn't filled out anyway - so yeah, probably not really helpful

4:05 - walk to my classroom where candy bars are stashed in desk drawer . . . . candy is needed

5:45 - Karly finishes math assignment - good time to break to go home

5:50 - enter cold car - yay - no scraping needed (too cold!!)

6:05 - drop Karly off - head for 94

6:30 - arrive home - dogs out to pee

6:40 - check emails/blogs

7:40 - realize dogs have no food - bundle up for Target-run

8:22 - arrive home, feed dogs, go pee myself, sit down to finish blog

8:23?? - EAT DINNER????

. . . and hopefully in bed by 10pm!

IF you blog - and you just read this - TAG - you're IT!