Another Happy Dance!

In order to truly communicate my extacy over what has transpired today, I must first share the depths of my frustrations which once resolved set my feet to dancing.

I have two schools, one where I am an assistant choir director, and another where I am the only choir director. At the school where I assist, I share an office with the other choir director. He's a nice guy, and we get along well. That being said, he's a clutter-bug, and there is not a clean work surface to be found anywhere in the entire choir room, let alone the choir office. I moved a student desk in there so I'd have a place to call my own without taking up too much real estate. Within 10 minutes, I was sharing "my" work surface with the office phone.

After a couple weeks of school, I've run things off to pass out to my classes, and what do I do with the extras? They go on my desk. Now where's that one thing...? Oh, it's on my desk, under the pile of papers... I don't have enough space to spread things out and figure out what's what. Frustrtating.

To make my situation just a little MORE complicated, I teach one class in the choir room, and then I teach the next two class periods in the room next door. When I have passed things out to my 2nd and 3rd period classes, and someone is absent, then they ask for it the next day, and I have not brought that stack of extras to the next room. It's on my desk in the office next door. It's been a problem, and I hate not being prepared. It wastes class time, and there's not enough time to waste on running to the next room to get that thing that I passed out yesterday for the kid who wasn't there.

Today, I got myself a CART!! I checked it out from the library, and it's MINE!!! I can put papers on it that need to be passed out, and then just wheel it next door and have every thing I need! It's a dumb thing to be happy about, I guess, but it should solve some pretty big frustrations for me. Also, it's some horizontal surface that my office-mate isn't allowed to stack things on. It's the closest thing I have to a real desk of my own. I want to get some of those "in" and "out" boxes to put on it so that kids will have a place they can turn things in to me without having to say every time where things need to go... I may even get some ribbons and decorate my cart to scare off the clutter-bug...

Now hopefully I can spend less time running next door and more time with the kids SINGING!

Today was a good day for singing... I'm in the right job. I just love it. Especially now that I have my cart!