I've been on a pretty great run for awhile here, everything had been moving at a great clip. Levi's on tour again, I'm actually keeping up with it, Maddox and Archer are getting to their games on time without anyone needing to text me to remind me... Things are good.
So of course, Life.
I am entering that oh-so-fun time frame at work where my whole day is just me pulling my hair out and questioning each and every one of my life choices, trying to figure out exactly what led me here. This means, of course, that my daily downtime is pretty much zero (and let's face it, usually downtime at work is when I do most of my popmundo-ing), and my evening downtime is mostly recovering from work.
Most of the year I have one or two projects happening at any given time, and the next project doesn't start until the previous one is done. At most, there are three things overlapping, and most of the time, they all tie together anyway (data from one thing will help me accomplish the other thing). But for the next three months, fading into July, at any given time I have aabout five or six major projects or tasks on my list, none of which coincide with one another. All of which are stressfull on their own. And part of it is about this school year while part is for next year, so mentally switching back and forth all day is exhausting.
All of the usual insanity is only exacerbated by this whole hybrid school model, and then there's the push to go back full time and everything else.
OH, and let's not forget the phone calls I get from parents who want to express their concern that the district isn't teaching race relations. Unnecessary because we're not, this is just their knee-jerk racist reason to the fact that we mentioned diversity in our search for a new superintendent (ours is retiring). But holy fuck if there was ever a district that needed it. I wish they knew that when they did this, they were speaking to a WOC. One of these days I might tell them. Or, there's a FB group, one day I'll just post, like 'Y'all know that it's me that you're calling and spouting your shit to, right?' The calls are emotionally exhausting.
In short, I'm still here, and I'll jump online when I can, even if it's just to run interactions, but there may be times (this week was a perfect example) where it may take me more than 5 days to reply to a message. I apologize but also, we're all adults here with real lives, so I hope everyone continues to be understanding. This weight is generally lifted during June, so let's just hope everything goes the way it should.