Preparations continue...

There are quite a few things cropping up that I did not anticipate or have forgotten in the long list I have been compiling for the past few months. I want to be ready for everything that will fly at me once the year starts. I would like to be present in my baby's life so I don't miss anything while still being an effective leader. How this is going to happen is still playing out in my mind and I guess I won't really know until I am back at work (in 14-days, but whose counting!). 

So, after 13-years in the education system, I forgot that we do mandatory training. How?! So I have added it to my long list and I started whittling away at these last night. I know there's a few I can do now that will ensure I have a little bit of wriggle room in the day which will allow me to support others doing the training (especially if this is happening on the School Development Day in a few weeks) and it will also allow me to get to the most exciting part - the filing of everyone's certificates of completion. I have created a folder for all of the permanent staff so far and will make the rest once I know who will be in the English Faculty in 2020. I feel a little rude excluding people who are likely to be employed but I don't want to cause any issues if they are located elsewhere in the school - this decision is not mine to make and I can't confirm anything for anyone!

After an extraordinarily hot day - it was 49 degrees celsius in my car when I went to the supermarket to get supplies (I ran out of soda water! I went a day without it but couldn't hack any longer - it is my joy!) I think I have ended the day being quite productive. I am a little sad to realise though, that I didn't publish the post I was working on last night  but it is up now! I will definitely press the publish button on this one.

Preparing for 2020

I have just lost 3-hours. I swear it was 9.23pm like, 20-minutes ago?!

I have had a productive evening really - backing up my phone, making dinner, getting baby to sleep, and then the rest of the night has been spent moving files from Google Drive to a Teams Drive in Office365. A wonderful colleague very recently began a Google Drive to consolidate faculty resources and while this brave new world is in its early stages I am going to make the faculty leap over to Office365 instead. This may seem a little bizarre but I have very good reasons and I am sure that some time will be saved once it is up and running. A little context for this decision - I went into corporate 3-years ago as an avid Google Drive user but just before I arrived to the team they had begun the process of moving to Office365. Within days I was wowed by the functionality and haven't looked back. I love being able to access Word online and then work from the desktop in the full version of Word when editing and creating documents. With the advent of Teams as well, I just cannot think of a better way to store resources and open up a channel for communication online. Sorry Google Drive, I do think you are a fabulous tool but just not quite right for this purpose.

I am currently waiting for a few files to download and in my world of contradictions I am taking notes in my hardcopy bullet journal and downloading files to upload them on a different platform. I once did a left brain/right brain test and landed smack in the middle of the two - the online platform possibly appeals to my sense of order and the paper and pen appeals to my need for a creative outlet (this is probably all made up but it sounded interesting at the time and I have always remembered the results because I felt a little odd not having a dominant preference like the rest of the staff!).

It is good to slowly get back into the swing of things.