Well, two more weeks until school starts. I'm feeling the stress creeping into my body. I'm trying not to let it get to me, but I did the stupidest thing yesterday. I checked my work email. That's a sure fire way to kick that stress up a notch. You would think that by now I would know better.
I read an email that sent me over the edge. It doesn't take much, sometimes. I work at two schools, so I have two principals. It's twice the fun, believe me. I have one principal who is Luke Skywalker, and one who is Darth Vader. Luke gave us an automated phone call and an email, letting us know that we're starting on August 1, with dates and times, etc. This was about two weeks ago. We have a district wide start date on August 4. So you can probably understand that I've mentally prepared myself to go into work mode for August.
This email that I shouldn't have read said that she is sorry to put this on us, but we're having freshman orientation on July 31st in the evening. That she knows it'll be a long day for us, since we are having a work day on the 31st as well. [screeching brakes] Whoa! Work day?! What did Darth do, send out a psychic memo?? No email. No call. No memo.
I did an even more stupid thing. I responded to the email. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Now they know that I know, and it got even worse. Apparently a letter was sent out to all faculty and staff [what am I, chopped liver?] that we're supposed to start July 30. Fuck.