Good morning, again! It is a beautiful morning to be out on the deck enjoying my breakfast and coffee! I figured today would be a good time to talk about my new job a bit more since today is the first day that I'm home without the kids. It will certainly take some getting used to, but I'm excited to be able to clean up the house and run errands and meal plan and buy groceries on my own. I'm excited for some alone time for once!
So my new job is going great!! I really love it! My day is spent checking in and reshelving books, walking around the school to pick up books that the students are done with and ready to turn in, pulling books that 5th graders have put a hold on (think book version of Grub Hub, they order, I find the book and deliver), delivering those books to 5th graders, attending 2nd, 1st, 3rd, and Kindergarten classes with Karla to help check out books while she works on the lesson (the upper grades seem to be a little easier, so she's not needing my help as much with them, but still occasionally), processing new books so they can get out on the shelves for kids, and helping teachers with whatever tech or book issues they're having. It's a very busy job. I could easily work 40 hours and never run out of things to do. Unfortunately, I cannot. So I try to get as much done as possible in my 20 hours (and sometimes clock out and keep working). As I mentioned, I'm looking forward to a couple days on my own, now. Hopefully it will go well for the kids spending 3 days a week in the library before and after school and 2 days a week in the car rider line. It's not ideal, but I think we can make it work.
I thought I was mostly going to be in the library this year and be pretty hands off with students. I love working with students, and was a little disappointed about that, but at the same time, this is a perfect year to be hands off. Well, it turns out I'm not as hands off as I thought I was going to be. The first day I was working while students were in the building I stayed in the library and processed books all day, but the next 5 days, I was in several to all of the classrooms with Karla. I thought I would be there for 2 days to introduce myself to all the kids before they stopped seeing me. But with only a 30 minute class period and 20-27 students/class, plus her needing to teach a lesson, it was just more than she could do alone. I want to help her and make her job easier, so I volunteered to go into rooms and help her. Of course, that means exposing myself to almost every kid int he school, which wasn't my plan for this year. So I had to text our friends Brian and Alli yesterday and explain that I'm having more contact with students than I previously thought, and that I thought we should press pause on seeing each other once a week. Alli is pregnant and I would hate for something to happen to her because of me. So that's the downside to this new job. I have to be a lot more careful about who I'm coming in contact with. At least for these first few weeks while we get everything figured out. I'm hopeful that things will settle down and I can go back to being in the library primarily. Time will tell.
That negative piece aside, I love my new job! I love my new colleague! I love working in the library and with the books, and even though it's a downside in another regard, I love getting into classrooms and seeing students. I love them and missed the dearly. This is a weird year, but we'll make it through.
Alright, I have to go make lunches and get my chilluns off to school now! Talk more later!!
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