Friday

Whenever possible, I stay home from the day job on Fridays so I can maybe get some work done. In the office I get interrupted constantly, so Fridays are my chance to accomplish something–like wading through a mountain of exams and working on the (boring academic) chapter that’s due at the end of the month.

So here’s what my day has been like:

Monthly maid service shows up 30 minutes early
Secretary texts, then calls, with complicated questions
A dozen students send emails asking if I will round up their grades
Junior high principal calls about issue with Kid 2
Husband comes home early with hurt arm, blasts TV
Doorbell rings twice with packages
Phone rings multiple times, mostly robocalls
Software miscalculates student grades, a problem that takes an hour to fix
Administrator emails me to tell me you can’t assess “understanding”, so a course proposal needs fixing
Brother and SIL send very distracting and delicious package full of goodies
Two faculty members from my department email with urgent questions

Good grief! The worst of it is that what I really want to be doing is dealing with the round of Stasis edits that arrived yesterday or writing a novella about aliens. Both those will have to wait.

How’s your weekend shaping up?