Click Click Click…..

Jackie ♦ September 11, 2009 ♦ 3 Comments

Dean Dad wrote a post recently about the week before school starts, comparing it to the sound a roller coaster makes when it is rising to the top of the first hill, right before you start the first exhilarating rush. I read it at the time and thought it was incredibly apt, and now I can’t get the metaphor out of my head.

Since school started, I’ve definitely been in the front row of that roller coaster, and I’m starting to feel like it will begin every Monday and whip me around and around and upside down until Friday…. for the rest of my life! Just kidding. No, really. But I’m definitely in the weeds these days, though I don’t think I’m as behind as I feel like I am, if that makes sense. And I do have that same feeling I remember from my waitressing days, when I am on my feet constantly, in five different locations in ten minutes, holding ten separate important items in my head at once while five different people talk to me and I listen to each one and respond appropriately. And somehow the buzzing energy comes from somewhere and keeps me going and I make it to the end of the shift and feel a boost of adrenaline at what I managed to accomplish. Then I go home, eat a huge meal late at night, and fall dead asleep. Then I do it all again for a double shift the next day.

So basically, so far this school year, I feel like I’m waiting tables on a moving rollercoaster.

How’s by you?