As many of you know, I'm in school administration. And if you know anything about the current state of opening schools in the US, particularly in NY, you know it's hectic as fuck and basically a giant riddle right now. Every day more shit keeps piling up on top of me. Also - let me just sidebar real quick: if you have kids in school right now, please be easy on the teachers. They are struggling just as much as you are. This isn't what they signed up for. It's not what any of us signed up for.
I can't complete any task that I start because I'm interrupted every five minutes with a phone call or email from another parent asking me a question that has been answered a million times, or a colleague who calls me instead of the person they should call, and then refusing to listen to me when I say I can't help them. Or they call with something that isn't actually an issue that they could have figured out on their own.
For example, in the time it's taken me to write this, I've exhanged 8 emails with a teacher who repeatedly conflated two different programs, and in every single response, I have given her the answer. This should have been resolved in one message. But she kept going. EIGHT REPLIES!
All of that means that I end up going home and having to complete my own work there, where there is no one to bother me. Obviously, this means my energy and motivation levels for just about anything else are at the lowest they have ever been. I haven't even fired up Sims 4 or GTA in weeks, despite both of them usually bringing great catharsis when I use them to work out my frustration by destroying everything.
6 more emails and 3 phone calls since then. FML
No work. Not checking voicemails, emails, or anything else.