Tales from the Steppes

2005-11-02

7:32 a.m.
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I have very mixed feelings about today. On the one hand, I am smacking myself for being stooooopid. On the other hand, maybe taking a little break here is not such a bad thing. Of course, it may be the last shreds of my sanity that break.

You see, in a burst of foolish optimism, at the beginning of the school year I volunteered to chaperone the EM's Outdoor Ed trip. 2 1/2 days of bliss with a cabin of hormonal 6th graders. The scary thing is that while I call my children Mongols, at least 2 out of 3 of them really are not as hordeish as most kids. At least not in public. Yeah, I know. What was I thinking? But it was the beginning of the school year and I am always hopeful about my time constraints. And I was feeling guilty about not doing my fair share of volunteering. So off I go, not even taking my laptop.

It would have been nice if my deadlines had realized I was taking a couple of days off. I told them but they do not seem to care. I have enough problems allowing myself to take a break but to have a bunch of developers hyperventilating because you won't be there to hold their hands and look at their plans is just pathetic. I am fortunate Pennsic falls in August, when the Planning Board is in recess, otherwise I would have to feel guilty about that.

However, I do feel I have made some progress on one front. I did not cook a single meal to be eaten while I am gone. I did do the shopping and made suitable younger Mongol arrangements though.

But now, I am late. Back on Friday.

Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me

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