Julie's summer concert tour continues - lol
Finished visiting Graceland and Memphis and pulled into Opryland and Nashville for the high schools that work conference.
Highlights there included
- presenting first workshop that had 60 seats we handed out 100 handouts and had people standing on shoulders to get in - I was so nervous I almost puked but we managed to get them up and moving - I got to boss all these people around and sounded smart doing it.
- Next presentation was the Titanic presentation (not on the titanic it was on how our school used the programs to succeed) I am referring to a workshop that had me highly strung out. I was told the Friday before we left that I would be presenting. I was given a handout not with the whole powerpoint but only my slides. We never ONCE practiced the presentation as a group and I later learned the others did not even do a total formal run through. Once there I learned we had 53 slides, four with video clips and many with music and only 60 minutes to present - I and another had bets as to how far in the slides we would really get - I won.... then because we are behind - the one presenter takes over and does not even have the principal come back up for his last part instead grabbing control.
But then I am finding this person is actually been slowly and sneaky grabbing more and more control and in fact the principal at the talk introduced her using my title - she really has been moving into doing more and more or trying to do more of some parts of my job - some other things that happened at this conference and comments and just things I am watching really makes me think she is trying to advance in the school and there is a strong possibility it is my job or such she is advancing towards.
- Presented next workshop and only had to deal with about 15 people - I breathed
- Actually attended some workshops and did other work for the school while here
- Had an online friend tell me about how they heard on a radio show people stash porn stuff under the beds in hotels - so do I look - of course - I mean I had been telling her how I always check the bible and book of Mormon and either leave a paper note with a funny saying or sign any notes I find - I have left a few and found a few - anyways I lift my mattress in this swanky hotel (100s of dollars per night) and in the middle is an empty package for some sex product which I still have no idea from the shape of the package and titles what it was only it was a Swedish Erotic product with a name.... so that was funny and the online friend made my day and kept me from getting to depressed - because
- Got to see Fantastic Four movie - BITCHIN' I liked it wah hoo - anyway get call walking from movie theater back to hotel from ex - he decided to start the divorce papers going, contacted a lawyer and was working on drafting the passage for the irreconcilable differences passage thing that must exist cause in NJ to divorce you must be separated over 18 months or one person must file these charges (stating the marriage has to be ended because cruel things essentially happened)
he is in a rush because of taxes but also he is serious about his girlfriend - which he also told me about on the phone that he was getting serious, but then he tells me he is just filing the passage against me - at first we had discussed duel filling but that means more lawyers and papers - but the things - to read them - it hurts really bad and really got to me -
Just the divorce and then this and there are other personal issues making me depressed I am trying not to think about or care about and so trying to pull myself up by boot strap and this comes along - that made rest of conference and even up to now and still will for awhile very hard to make it through day - I am tried of crying and feeling like this but my thoughts just fuel the mood
- Presented another workshop with over 120 people in attendance - that one we messed up the handout, I was ultra nervous and had the bad news mentioned in previous bullets more on my mind than presentation - but we got over 30 requests for more information (which means more work but hey... I thrive on stress
In fact I am convinced stress is now a major food group I subsist on as well as wacko cat naps and sleeping patterns
- Attended a session saturday morning was on plane by 2 and in San Diego by 9pm July 16 saturday for next conference
Next conference was National Academy Foundation - again a program for the high school - we have two academies academy of finance and academy of travel and tourism - adding Information technology this year which means lots of work because
I was just asked to be director of all academies and really get them going because the last three years the teachers pieced them together but they have not been supported well
So I spent conference learning how to be a Director, how to get the third academy started -
Attended a few workshops (a good one on planning a student conference and another helping prepare seniors for the world of credit cards and debt)
Organized meetings with attendees during conference to discuss ow we bring this back to school (and typed up lots of documents for those meetings and in general)
Did tour around the GasLamp District which I liked including eating and listening to jazz and Croce's restaurant.
Flew out this morning to come to Tucson to deal with sisters (two who will not even be in same room and have other hangups as well and one who is 6 months pregnant, very hormonal, very motherly and stuck in middle) - still can not get those two in same place - we drive tomorrow to Vegas and will stay through Sunday (yes first thing I do is check mattresses - lol)
plan on having a Vegas update on my tour as well as more Tucson highlights - then I fly back Monday to San Diego (had to because of way I had to get plane tickets because of conferences) and then back to NJ Tuesday morning at 5am and I go into work yes I am a sadist when it comes to work
Other things include just got accepted to create an online course - computer programming using Java for an online high school and starting Jan I will have high school students and teach the course - whew back to teaching high school again - plus will have my community college classes and all the other work
I'm getting depressed, blech, down and busy although on other foot I make sure to add distractions like music concerts and many of the things I do for work are very interesting - just busy
eh well I will survive and focus on the stuff that makes me laugh and just try to ignore the bad thoughts, the things i can not have and the shitty stuff we wade through - accept it, deal and look for the upside
It all works out in the end - just sometimes I wish I had the express elevator not the 101 steps - lol
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