Leave My Relatives Out of This!

I believe it was Albert Einstein that said “All time...is relative.” What the heck was he talking about? With very few exceptions, no one in my family has good timing. In fact, I would have to say that time management is a major issue with me both genetically and thru marriage. Now when it comes to getting somewhere on time, I can do that, but try and get something done...well, that’s another story. Like the old sign used to say, “ Procrastinators meeting postponed.”  Here it is, the end of the summer, with school starting up in only a week, and I’m nowhere near ready. I have no clue as to what I doing, I don’t know where anything goes, I have nothing on the walls, I have no copies made, no lesson plans, Arrrgggggh!!!!!................sorry - I lost it there for a moment. I’m okay now. It’s all good.  Everything’s going to be fine once I get a chance to meet with the rest of my team. (Breathe in, breathe out.)

I don’t know why I should be surprised by this turn of events. I have found myself in situations like this for most of my life. When I did theatre for a living, one of our sayings around the shop was, “you can have it two of three ways: cheap, fast, good - choose.” Most of the people I worked with wanted it fast and good, and had the money to pay for it, so everything got done at the last minute. You get used to that. Even in college, when there was a paper or project due ... yep, you guessed it - I was one of those who waited until the very last minute to do anything. That’s how I can tell when my students do the same thing.

So here I am, half a century later, still trying to figure out a way to get something done without actually putting out any effort on my part. If only I could live the day the way I see it in my mind when I wake up each morning. You know what I mean? When you run the day’s plan through your head and put in all the good well balanced meals, exercise, housework, quality family time, and still to bed by 10pm. You know those mornings - I’m sure we make those kinds of ‟this will be a perfect day” plans, only to have them struck down by the crippling forces of reality.

My reality said, “Wake up, Butt-Head! You’ve got less that a week to get your act together.  You can do this! Turn the music up, stop messing around and just do something. If it’s not perfect, fix it.” It’s that simple.

--note for anyone looking for misspellings : Theatre - used for stage productions
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