Sistah Pat

Yawn….Time to wrap my head around where I am.  Up, slurping coffee, removing chipped nail polish, blogging.  My mind is whirling with work stuff.  I finished the new newsletter while on the trip and need to get it to graphics today, I have a faculty meeting after school today, I need to find out what I’m supposed to do about a Christmas party, I have an ROTC Booster Club meeting tomorrow.  I did a stupid(?) thing the Wednesday before we left.  Major comes up to my desk around noon and hands me a bank bag with more than a thousand dollars in small bills (mostly ones) and change.  We did a “dress down for $2.00″ fundraiser for ROTC a couple of weeks ago and he brought me the money with no advance warning.  I don’t know where he had it before then but I certainly didn’t have time to drive all the way to the bank they use and deposit it when I was leaving town in a couple of hours so I put it in my room in my desk drawer.  As treasurer, I have to get it to the bank.  My room is very secure because it’s been used to store more than a thousand laptop computers for the last five years.  There are no windows and no one has a key to it but me, Paul, and the principal and no one knows I have the money, much less that I put it in my desk.  I felt fine about locking it up in my desk in my room when I did it but it’s been bugging me ever since..  I want to get it to the bank today.  We’ve got a controversy going about the days we missed from the wind damage back in September and I don’t know when we’re supposed to meet for that but I assume it will be this week.  Seems like the school board decided that instead of adding an extra week at the end of the year, they would take away one teacher professional development day and the remaining parent teacher conference day of the year and just tack three days on the end of the year.  Of course, teachers are not happy about that because it takes away two optional work days for us when we can get an extra day’s pay for them.

Off to the shower and into the lion’s den.