I need a gear shift in my head. Or, I know! a few switches. I envision a switchboard like telephone operators used in the olden days, where they took a plug from one location and plugged it into a different outlet to connect two people together. That would be great!
I have all this work in various locations, playing various roles and I literally need to remember who I am at any given time. Add to that, I’m trying to keep writing in my Off times. Add to that, I have to vote on Tuesday, Add to that, I’m the Chair of the Music Parents’ committee at our middle school and we have our October Overnight Retreat this coming Friday, and I have a whole ton of wonderful volunteers to co-ordinate, grocery shopping list to create, shopping trip to arrange, many jobs to delegate, AND I have to work on that day til 4:30, which means I won’t be there until about 5:30…
Hold on… it also means that I am forced to delegate, and will not have to do much work myself on the day. That’s never a bad thing. I don’t have a problem delegating, but being the one “in charge” I also have to think of everything and make sure I’ve told everyone everything they need to know. That’s why I wake up at bizarre hours of the night saying, “The strawberries have to be kept out on the counter overnight so they’re thawed in time for breakfast!” or, “The music teacher needs to ask the Home Arts teacher if we can put our perishables in her fridges and freezers, or else I’m going to have to store 7 boxes of frozen waffles in my mom’s deep freeze!” or, “What happens politically in Griffin’s sister Gillian’s dance company that takes Gillian’s dance solo away from Gillian and gives it to her rival?” [Must get together with dancer friend to learn about dance politics to apply to book]
[Geez, I’m starting to see a theme in these posts… time management]
So, you see, if I had a switch board I could unplug from the Music Parent Chair and switch into writing mode. Or switch from Work mode into Music Parent Chair.
Most importantly, I’d unplug everything so I could SLEEP.