La Bene Vita

Wildcard Tuesday

I left Tuesdays off the blog schedule and had no intention of blogging today. Then the universe decided to throw me a day worth documenting. However, fair warning that this is literally a bullet-point list of my day and probably less interesting than yesterday's technical music theory analysis.

Yesterday, I went to get labs drawn and had a virtual endocrinologist appointment, then kicked off a full day of chaos at the music school.

Three of seven private teachers were absent, including two last-minute sick call-outs. I spent an unbudgeted hour or more after my appointment contacting possible subs, shuffling students around to other teachers and brainstorming possible coverage solutions until receptionists arrived to take over.

The plumber never showed to look at the school's hot water tank, so I set up the (collapsible) ladder for nothing, and we had to take it down when the children began to arrive at 3:00.

My own students were scheduled to start at 3:40, and I wasn't about to miss my first "Music Mondays" post, so I wolfed down a granola bar and some chips from the snack area and frantically cranked out the post.

At 3:20*, I conducted a very short-notice certification for a teacher I recently hired, so he would be qualified to sub for some of the kids. (*Since my blog post is time-stamped 3:22, I must have started late.) I finished the certification with about five minutes to spare (potty time) before my first student arrived.

I taught three hours of back-to-back lessons, including four students from the absent teachers. Luckily - or maybe by design? - I require lesson planning from absent teachers and regular progress documentation from everyone, so the lessons went fine. Finished teaching and documentation at 7:40, and for the first time since they arrived at 1pm, walked up to the reception desk to make sure the receptionists were okay and thank them for scrambling.

At 8:00 I had a second interview with a theory teacher candidate via Zoom. That took maybe half an hour. Then I put together an offer package and emailed it to the candidate before finally heading home.

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