Figures

I went to my school today.

It's that time again. Setting up to run the before/after school show.

Since my program space was bulldozed never to be heard from again, (turns out that's not correct... more on that later ) I have to run my program in the cafeteria.

I had it mostly figured out. I had one very large room divider cart, not very tall but pretty big. You'll notice the past tense there... the cart is now missing.

I'm pissed as hell, not that it's going to do me any good.
I had all my boxes piled on it and around it. It was clearly marked with the company name and its destination (Storage Tunnel). The boxes, at least most of them, are all in one spot but my cart, all $479.00 worth... is gone.

We thought that maybe someone in the school had taken it because after the movers got done moving stuff, it would not have been surprising if the tags got torn off, they were only taped on with packing tape.

Nope. It's not in the building. We looked.

The last hope is that the movers, by definition having more brawn than brains, took it to the district's storage facility. I emailed our principal tonight to let him know that I'm willing to drive over there and look for it. It really makes a difference in my program. Everything has to be portable, meaning everything needs to have wheels.

All my stuff is stored in a basement storage area. I can't find my first aid suitcase, or haven't yet, and  I'm going up there again tomorrow to consolidate some other stuff, box it up and have it sent to the company storage unit for a year. I'll need it next fall when we (once again) move. And I don't have any damn wheels at all yet. Except for a book cart that our custodian found for me today.

::sigh::

On the funny side of things, Cathy in the office told me that for the last two weeks, the telephone would ring at her desk and the ID would say the call was coming from my (bulldozed on June 23rd) program space.

They finally tracked down a wire that had not been disconnected when the others were. It was buried in some rubble and should not have been working, but it was. :)

In my old job, I used the entire cafeteria for my program. I had a lot of kids, though, and needed the space. For mornings, I consolidated things into one smaller area so the cafeteria could be used to serve breakfast, but the kids still ranged all around the room.

Both my program and my space are smaller now, so I am hopeful that I can make it work a little more simply.

Breakfast is served in this cafeteria, too. In the afternoons I could utilize more of the room but it will probably be easier to keep things contained by just setting up for morning and afternoon at the same time and not changing things at the end of the day.

I have done some of what I need to do, will have a good deal of the rest of it done tomorrow, and then finish on Tuesday when I meet our licensing person at my site.

I am not ready for school to start. I still have a million things that need to be done. And I'm pissed off that all my stuff isn't there.

But now, it's bedtime. Up at the buttcrack of dawn again. Haircut etc. And meeting someone at 2 so SHE can haul things down the stairs for me, as I am not able to do it.