Gee. I wonder why I'm tired.

So things aren't going too badly, although I hate the commute more than I'd expected. It's not a lot longer than my other one, just more speeding cars around me. I'm also more comfortable with one route, so I don't like the GPS sending me different ways to shave three minutes off drive time.

I've noticed an interesting thing, when I see a car zipping in and out of traffuck doing stupid maneuvers ahead, and I catch up with them (as one inevitably does) it's almost always either a BMW or an Audi.

Guess they don't understand how the whole traffuck thing works... the research out there suggests that you might save 30 seconds to a minute on your way to your destination by driving like a flaming asshole.

Not worth being stupid, if you ask me. (As usual, no one has asked.)

I'm also not a fan of being sandwiched between two very large trucks while we hurtle down the road at 65. No one asked me if that was okay, either, by the way.

Okay.

Still doing this training and that. "Here's how we do it at OUR company."

I don't find that to be a bad thing, especially after working for an organization with no program standards for the last six years. But it's a huge amount of information, much of it without context. There will be more context as I continue to work there, but until I get my hands on the paperwork/systems/ways of doing things it's just words.

I have more than 30 kids registered, and most days there are more than 30 in attendance.

The cafeteria is huge, and the program isn't organized. I still don't even know what stuff there is on site for adults to use (crafts and adult sized scissors and where's the paperwork for incident reports and where's our real first aid kit?)

That last one is solved by my just bringing mine until such time as I locate the things we need.

It's been awhile since the place was gone through, cleaned up and labeled.

It's still going to BE awhile. I simply haven't had time.
School gets out at 3, meaning I have three hours to deal with kid stuff instead of the 4 I had at my last job. That's not all bad, but it does cut into crafting time. And as wild as the group has been, it's taking a lot of effort to get them all going in more or less the same direction.

I don't want compliance and perfection in kid behavior, they're kids and they're going to act like it. I've said before that they're like unanchored lily pads on the frog pond of life and there's a hell of a wind storm going on.

But trying to get them to stop hitting each other, running in the cafeteria, throwing toys? Almost makes me want to start a reward system. (Not really... more on that later. I utterly refuse to do any kind of incentive for expected behaviors.)

I brought in some LEGO on Friday during the full day program. As always, it was a huge hit. So I'll be bringing in more this week. Amazing how things are toned down when kids have things to do.

Okay, I was going to do more catching up but good god it's nearly midnight. And even though I  work from home tomorrow morning (Zoom meeting at 10) I still have to get up and do something about my smooshed up face and hair and get something to eat before I have to park in front of the computer for an hour and a half.

How are things where you are?