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I was suddenly struck by the need to write, most likely because I must in five minutes get changed and go get my children and take them to the library if they are not too sleep-deprived (some nightmares last night, so disrupted sleep for one of them) for anything but coming home. I do hope we can manage the library, as smol daughter has been complaining of the lack of unread books lately, but it will be what it is; if not today, perhaps Wednesday.
The event Friday went extremely well, in large part because I unexpectedly had the help of my very good friend whom I ought to come up with a charming sobriquet for; not only is she an excellent friend who also does much volunteer work, but her children are of an age with my children and they all get along beautifully, so our families socialise with some regularity, so she is likely to continue appearing in my entries. But, regardless, she was there to help, which made it an enjoyable and efficient two hours of work, and the clean-up went very swiftly. I will most likely do it again next year; I now understand the boundaries of the job much better, and the 'oh no dear I'm just there to help but are you *sure* you shouldn't...' person will have moved to the greener pastures of another school, so I will have a free hand in organising.
Today I caught up on various things, including communication for the final school program I am still running (only because I could not find anyone to take it over after last year), including communication with the person who will (fingers crossed, hands raised, etc) hopefully be taking it off of my hands. I had a little creative time, only about 45 minutes, but enough to whet my appetite for tomorrow, when there will be a few hours before volunteering and taking children to have their teeth cleaned, and then Wednesday and Thursday look potentially fruitful, if nobody generates any emergencies and nobody gets sick.
I think my goal for the next school year is to do the refreshments for this one event, as it was overall low impact, and continue with Girl Scouts, and then do spot things like classroom volunteering and the tours (which I think I have definitely decided not to sign up for this year) -- things which are single tasks and then done, rather than the coordination of some number of other people who may or may not do their parts and may or may not demonstrate great emotionality about being asked if they have finished their task list, etc etc.
Future posts will include recent reading, perhaps some poetry (not written by me) and/or music (ditto), continued musings about fanfic, etc etc etc, and hopefully much less of my self-negotiation about how much volunteer work I am doing. I think it has been very useful, as I have landed in a good understanding of my habits about it and what I wish to do differently, but I am getting a little tired of it being the first thing in my mind every day.
The event Friday went extremely well, in large part because I unexpectedly had the help of my very good friend whom I ought to come up with a charming sobriquet for; not only is she an excellent friend who also does much volunteer work, but her children are of an age with my children and they all get along beautifully, so our families socialise with some regularity, so she is likely to continue appearing in my entries. But, regardless, she was there to help, which made it an enjoyable and efficient two hours of work, and the clean-up went very swiftly. I will most likely do it again next year; I now understand the boundaries of the job much better, and the 'oh no dear I'm just there to help but are you *sure* you shouldn't...' person will have moved to the greener pastures of another school, so I will have a free hand in organising.
Today I caught up on various things, including communication for the final school program I am still running (only because I could not find anyone to take it over after last year), including communication with the person who will (fingers crossed, hands raised, etc) hopefully be taking it off of my hands. I had a little creative time, only about 45 minutes, but enough to whet my appetite for tomorrow, when there will be a few hours before volunteering and taking children to have their teeth cleaned, and then Wednesday and Thursday look potentially fruitful, if nobody generates any emergencies and nobody gets sick.
I think my goal for the next school year is to do the refreshments for this one event, as it was overall low impact, and continue with Girl Scouts, and then do spot things like classroom volunteering and the tours (which I think I have definitely decided not to sign up for this year) -- things which are single tasks and then done, rather than the coordination of some number of other people who may or may not do their parts and may or may not demonstrate great emotionality about being asked if they have finished their task list, etc etc.
Future posts will include recent reading, perhaps some poetry (not written by me) and/or music (ditto), continued musings about fanfic, etc etc etc, and hopefully much less of my self-negotiation about how much volunteer work I am doing. I think it has been very useful, as I have landed in a good understanding of my habits about it and what I wish to do differently, but I am getting a little tired of it being the first thing in my mind every day.
