As an emergency teacher I have to be prepared to drop everything and go to work at very short notice.
Like last Tuesday when the phone rang at 7:50am for an 8:20am start.
Luckily I had an outfit chosen already. A shame about lunch though, as a peanut butter sandwich was all I could throw together at the last minute and then I became too paranoid to bring it out to eat at our NON nut-free school lest I inadvertently give someone an anaphylactic fit.
So when it gets to 8am and the phone hasn't rung and it dawns on me that I do not have to go to work, it feels like I have a bonus day off. And my mind starts imagining all the amazing things that I can do.
Like today, where I'm going to use my faux bonus (child-free) time to make a few more outfits for work. I've worked two days this term and already exhausted my working winter wardrobe.
I know the feeling....I give myself until 8:30am, then if my phone hasn't rung by then I let my brain think the day is mine :) I have had calls before 6:30am for working on that day, the night before a day's work and on occasion I have been walking through school after morning drop off, someone has seen me and asked if I could come in later that same day to work. I've had 6 days working thus far this term - some only half days. Thankfully it's been two days each week.
ReplyDeleteIt's great you are getting back into the swing of working and enjoying it. I wish I could make some work outfits. I hope we get to see yours?!??!
8am is my cut off - although I did miss a call at 8:30 one morning while I was on my way to school. I got to school at about 8:40 and saw the co-ordinator who said that she thought I would already be be at school for drop off and was hoping I could do periods 1-3 there and then. I had Miss Five with me and wasn't quite dressed for the occasion...and, in her desperation, she had found someone else by then anyway.
DeleteAm posting photos on Instagram - must remember to copy them to FB and other places :).