Good Things & Bad Things - a rollercoaster ride today

Bad things.

Feeling like I need a wheel alignment!
Having a headache.
Having too many people demand my attention all day long! Oh my god.....The Music Department was total madness today. Nothing like last minute practices by students. Students skipping classes and ending up in the Music Dept with no note from their teacher!!!
Too much noise.
A student banging on the door while I am trying to talk to someone on the phone in the office. When will they cut us a break in that shoe box office and put a damn window in it!
Photocopier technician arriving right in the middle of a class - although he was mostly independent, just needed me to log in....and he did give us a new finisher that staples.
Staff not putting the phone back on charge, and it dying right at the crucial point of my call and then having to call back at my expense on my cellphone.
Not just having Music Students in the practice rooms on a really busy day but also having other students rehearsing in the rooms for other classes as well. That is usually all good.....but just a bit too much on the day before Music Evening.
Students missing deadlines again and trying to negotiate a reprieve, when the due date and time was mentioned in countless emails and on countless documents. Getting really tired of this one!
Staff not supplying me with enough information in a timely manner and me having to run around looking at records to find the information and wasting texts on my cell getting the information from students. Massive frustration and hours and money wasted.
Countless changes to the programme for tomorrow's music evening!! Oh my god! no wonder why the photocopying budget is dire and also no wonder why I have a headache.
Late for my 1 hour remedial spa to try and help reduce tension from wonky body - I was late due to students making more last minute changes. I also missed out on my swim before the spa.
All in all - a day I wish I had not had to endure. If only each person that added to my stress today had a video they could play on fast forward beforehand, seeing what had already gone on before them! Then they might have found some inner strength to be more helpful and more independent....oh but wait.....there is more...

Person on the wrong side of the road as I was driving down to the pool (and on a blind corner!)
Slamming on the brakes and everything in the van going for a slide. Luckily the driver was foreign so they probably didn't understand my expletives.

The rest of the Bad today is all a blur....but there were a couple of other things.


Good things.

The captain from the Army Base at Trentham rang and said that due to me being ex Military personnel that I was welcome to use their 6ft wall to train on and they would give me clearance to use it whenever I wanted to. Great! That was definitely worth asking about! Glad I thought outside the square on that one.

Getting the spa for free! even if it was for only 45 minutes. I got too hot anyway.

Having one student that was nice enough when they asked for a change to actually take the time to write a letter of apology and would I mind. (Even if this was the last request that made me late for the spa) But at least they had the decency to approach the issue in a mature way with lovely manners. And not demanding :)

Having almost 100% attendance for my Roopu (form class) not yet achieved this year I think. And the one that was away, is almost always present. So we were really close to full attendance. It was nice to see the students that hardly ever come were looking refreshed, happy and really taking pride in themselves. Well done 12TYK.

Getting the new finisher on the photocopier so we can staple - sounds silly...but this saves so much time!

Having the scanning function on the photocopier set up.

Having a nice coffee and healthy dinner with my neighbour. Well I had a healthy one anyway, she brought up some takeaways. The company was nice and she also always lights my fire for me. And cuts the kindling. Most awesome neighbour ever!

Getting the draft programme finished. Just have to make it pretty now for the punters.

Having a good Tech Crew set up for the Music Evening with minimal assistance from me. So much better than the last music evening where most of the sweat was mine!

Getting an email back from the physio, with a fairly doable fee for treatment if I decide I need some. Will wait till next week and see if things settle down. I definitely need to look at these $350 shoes I bought, I think even though I paid the money to have them fitted at a shoe clinic, that they are just not supportive enough and allow me to roll too much.

Cuddles with the cats.....even though Roamy approached Kit for his first cuddle and not the person that feeds him!

My friends son that has cancer having some good blood counts today....yahooo Pete!

Avoiding the silly bugger on the wrong side of the road and somehow miraculously missing them!

Going to bed before 11pm! Yes I am now signing off and going to bed.