Last year was my first summer reading program, and I was very, very stressed out in the weeks leading up to the start of summer reading.\u00c2\u00a0 I had thought that this year would be completely easy, since my worries of changing the prize structure and adding a charitable donation would be gone (everyone loved those two elements last summer), and\u00c2\u00a0the scheduling of events would be much smoother.<\/p>\n
In truth, though, I’m still quite stressed out this year.\u00c2\u00a0 All of the performers were booked in January, all of the prizes were ordered & delivered & are sitting in boxes in my office, the calendar is complete and in the process of being printed (only 100 copies at a time so the copier doesn’t overheat); but I’m still stressed.\u00c2\u00a0 Moving into the new building threw me off schedule in some ways, and I haven’t been able to jump back on that schedule track yet because of the increased business at the new library.\u00c2\u00a0 A happy problem, to be sure, but for an organized person like me it’s a bit torturous to know that I’m not completely up to date with my work tasks.\u00c2\u00a0 And then we throw summer reading into the mix: the flurry of activity necessary before the summer starts would have thrown me off schedule for other things anyway, and in this case it’s just throwing me further off schedule.<\/p>\n
Ack, I’m getting stressed out just writing about it.\u00c2\u00a0 Hopefully it will be quiet at work today so that I can check many, many things off of my “ongoing list extraordinaire.”\u00c2\u00a0 Or else there won’t be much sleeping tonight for me…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Last year was my first summer reading program, and I was very, very stressed out in the weeks leading up to the start of summer reading.\u00c2\u00a0 I had thought that this year would be completely easy, since my worries of changing the prize structure and adding a charitable donation would be gone (everyone loved those … Continue reading Summer<\/span>