Open House Night in the Life of an Assistant Principal

Since the last one was so well received and I'm too wound up to go to sleep just yet . . .

5:20 am--Alarm goes off. I really need to go to the bathroom, so I get up and come back to bed.
5:29 am--Hit snooze again.
6:12 am--Finally get up
7:09 am--Out the door with a blueberry fruit and cereal bar
8:00 am--A student seeking a schedule change arrives at my door
8:15 am--Walk the halls shooing kids to class
9:15 am--Get an email from my collegue at the other high school informing me of a staffing change; get so mad I can't see straight. Go vent to my friend Stacy.
9:30 am--Start the rebuttal email; decide to wait for the head principal to come in
9:45 am--Talk to Dave about needed car repairs and shots for Mason
10:00 am--Answer a nice parent email
12:20 pm--Go to eat lunch; realize I forgot the taco meat for my taco salad, so I just have salad
12:25 pm--Informed that one of my kids is AWOL
1:05 pm--Talk to teacher impacted by staffing change; express my anger and helplessness at the situation. I'm so angry I have a headache.
1:45 pm--Talk with principal about staffing change; she agrees to call the other principal
2:10 pm--Try to fax a letter to a mom--it goes through the third time
3:40 pm--Outside for bus duty
4:00 pm--Inside to organize and get settled; I alphabetize my hanging file folders, inserting the new typed tabs my assistant made for me
5:20 pm--Go down to eat dinner provided by the PTSA.
6:30 pm--Barely make it into the auditorium in time to be introduced. I was caught in the hallway by parents.
6:45 pm--Get ready to help hand out student schedules to parents so that they can have the room numbers to meet teachers
7:15 pm--Walk down to my Academy. Meet six sets of parents; out of 23 this is a great turn out
8:00 pm--Back down to help hand out schedules
8:15 pm--Talk with friends
8:45 pm--Get yelled at by a parent who was incited by the words of a teacher; principal escorts the mom and dad to her office (the mom was yelling)
9:05 pm--Open House is OVER--time to send parents home
9:10--Angry parent still in principal's office
9:15 pm--Help clean up
9:34 pm--Get in truck to head home; formulate this blog; am thankful that unlike Friday this is a shorter day (Friday I worked 17 hours--7:30 am to 12:15 am)
9:55 pm---Arrive home
9:57 pm--Ask Dave if there's anything funny in Devin's blog
9:58 pm--Read Devin's blog and think "At least I didn't find an old, wet diaper today."
10:00 pm--Read Yahoo email
10:13 pm--Finish this post

Still to do:
Take a shower
Pick out clothes that don't have to be ironed
Fall into bed