Singing Instead of Sighing

I never thought I would feel this busy and be happy about it.

That's a strange observation, I realize.  There were days when I was teaching when I would finish the day bone-tired, emotionally, mentally, physically, and would crash onto the sofa and eat cereal because I was too tired to even nuke leftovers.  I don't want to give the impression that I didn't love teaching, because I did.  Obviously I loved something about it, because it took six years of laughing and tears (OH! A rhyme!) for me to realize that while teaching was incredibly rewarding, eventually I was going to reach that point where I was giving more than I was getting.  I wanted to get out before I was burnt out -- and over that last year or so, I could feel the burnout creeping up on me.

As for being a media coordinator, I think I'm still in the honeymoon phase.  I love this job so much I'm sillier than a fourteen-year-old girl at a One Direction concert.  I'm not sure I could name all the stuff I did over the past two days -- I walked all over the school jiggling projector cords and hooking up document cameras; I went to classrooms and presented Prezis on research and the sources available in the library; I walked up and down the bookshelves looking for novels to sate a voracious sci-fi fan; I co-led a staff development on infographics; I became a student's senior-project adviser.  Quickly, I am learning that a school media coordinator wears many hats.  But I was glad to do every bit of it; I leap into action as if there was a lifetime supply of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups waiting for me when I finish up.

Oh, there are downsides, I suppose.  Media and tech personnel at my school have been unwillingly drafted as back-up testing coordinators, since legislature was recently passed forbidding guidance counselors from test coordinating.  I'm not thrilled about that situation at all -- but understudy is better than the lead role when it comes to this sort of thing.  And, being the daughter of a guidance counselor, I know that they don't love testing (or the coordination thereof) anymore than I do.  I could jump onto my soapbox about how school systems (and the state) need to consider full-time testing coordinators as essential personnel, but, you know, that's a soap box, and more or less unrelated to my job.

But for right now, I am having a blast.