Dear Friends,

I think that in my past life I held the job of scheduling flights in and out of O'Hare International Airport in Chicago.  There's a reason I think this, and it's because when I work on our building support schedule I feel that I am experiencing déjà vu.  It's an out of body experience, really- I feel as though I'm floating above and just watching myself forget things and jumble them up as I put them in an Excel spreadsheet. 

In reality, I am working on our building support schedule and will send it out to everyone on Friday.  Would you like to know how I build it?  Because, for some reason that I don't understand,  I would find some satisfaction in explaining it! 

1. Meet with resource team to identify needs and take many sloppy, yet thorough, notes
2. Open an Excel spreadsheet
     a. create a box for each IA
     b. create a box for every 15 minute increment through the day
3. Plug in lunch duties and personal lunch times (we love food here at CE)
4. Go to get a diet coke
5. Stop and talk to some people
6. Glance at, but ultimately walk away from, the candy jar
7. Work to decipher my sloppy, yet thorough, notes
8. Piece together support times for specific students
9. Squint, sigh, and push backspace approximately 1,392 times
10. Go to my Calming Corner
11. Piece together support times for classrooms
12. Tell myself that I think it's done
13. Silently cheer
14. Send the schedule out via e-mail
15. Immediately begin sweating in anticipation of discovered mistakes
16. Practice Square Breathing techniques
17. Feel better knowing that we're one step closer to being ready for the year!

P.S. Ok, ok....I did not actually walk away from the candy jar.  Guilty as charged.