Yeah, I know, two days in a row. I surprised myself too.

To be perfectly honest I have no idea why I sat down and started to write, as today was not event-filled.

The first day back to school after a vacation is always the pits. By noon, I’m pretty much done seeing that by then I’ve been up and moving for six and a half hours. In vacation mode that amount of time awake makes it about 3 in the afternoon.

I’m pretty much sure that everyone needs a "re-acclimation day". We should start out slowly and by mid week work ourselves back up to full steam. I think the kids would probably appreciate it too, seeing they were about as happy to be there as nothing.

The absentee list was pretty long today. Which is common in this town where the rich folks (the whole town) go on some Caribbean jaunt for the week and don’t come back for the start of school.

Only the drudges stay local.

That would be me. Of course I don’t LIVE in that town – which is just fine by me. The sidewalks roll up at 7:30 and there is NOTHING nearby. I’d croak.

My office pal, Bets, has been having a tough time of it. Her 20-year-old daughter has been suffering from depression and there was a fear that she might harm herself. The depression was diagnosed a couple of years ago, and it appeared that things were going well, but two weeks ago things started crumbling.

They ended up having to hospitalize the girl last Thursday. I can’t imagine how tough all this must be. The good news is that they changed her meds and have been able to determine that it’s not just depression, but that she is actually bi-polar and that the manic episodes are so swift and fleeting that no one picked up on it.

So they’ve been observing her and realize that she has come out of the depression very quickly with the med change. The medical people felt that if it were just depression that they were dealing with then things wouldn’t have turned around so quickly.

I do hope this is the answer, not just for the daughter, but for Bets. She’s having a really bad time of it herself.

The Ice Princess called the two of us today about our paperwork. She’s been sending out mean e-mails to the entire staff chastising us for late paperwork. Bets and I are NEVER late. EVER.

So Bets sent her an e-mail in return saying that if she was the one who was late that she wanted to know. Instead we got a call because she finally realized that our paperwork is usually in on the same day as the meeting. (Actually she was laughing because an IEP that I sent her had been dated incorrectly at her office so it appeared that I had sent in the paperwork before the meeting was even held. Just call me the miracle worker!)

In any case she acknowledged that we were going above and beyond the paperwork deadline and that it really wasn’t necessary for us to get it to her the same day as the meeting.

I told her that it was necessary as neither one of us liked having things hanging around on our desks. We wanted the stuff done and off to her office.

What happens to it from that point on is not our problem.

It was, however, quite nice to actually a compliment for a change!

And that sums up the whole day.

By the time the day was over my foot was throbbing and I couldn’t wait to get in the house and take off the shoes and put my feet up. I did get ice from the school nurse at lunchtime, but it didn’t do much to ease the ache.

What I really need is Motrin and my flax ice pack. It molds so nicely to my foot!

I should be going to the extra rehearsal that they’ve scheduled for the lead section tonight, but I’m not.

Slacker that I am.

I just know that I’ll be a mess if I try to push any farther today, and I have to get through regular rehearsal tomorrow night.