Workshoppin'

I started my job this past Monday. Both the full-time and seasonal staff at the SFW are absolutely incredible, creative, energetic, wonderful people to be around and work with. I really couldn't ask for a better work environment. :) (Side note: I am the youngest staff member out of all 29 of us)

This is just set-up week. We're setting up the studio, getting classrooms ready, gaining understanding of our daily duties & taking care of everything else that needs to be done before our first workshop participants arrive this coming Sunday. I slightly nervous for my first day on the job....but I think I'm going to be even MORE nervous when the first group of people arrives on Sunday. As work/study, I help check-in and check-out people....meaning that Megan (the other WS) and I are the first and last faces that these people will see. I know everything will be great, I know it will. I just need to get through a full week, with the workshops running, to have a little more confidence in myself and my job performance.

Honestly, if you had to boil this whole job down to one word, that would be : multitasking.

WS takes a workshop for free each week - which is an absolute honor and privilege, in all seriousness. But, we are also in charge of many other tasks on campus, which we can't drop the ball on. This first week will be all about figuring out how to balance both the "work" and "study" part of things. Inevitably the ball has to get dropped somewhere, it just can't be in the "work" aspect.

Dance-wise, I won't be able to dance 4 nights a week like I had originally hoped. The *only* time I have off during the week is Saturday afternoon, through early Sunday afternoon. After already dropping $300 on private ballroom lessons, and knowing that there is no way I can go all summer without dancing, the dance instructor made a special accommodation and will be teaching me on Sunday mornings. So yeah...the only free time I have all week is, uhhhhh,,,.Saturday afternoon/evening?

And, I'm finally starting to take off the 10 pounds that I gained in the last 6 weeks or so (wtf?). This insane schedule is pretty conducive to not-eating/not-eating much......plus we're not allowed to eat in the classrooms anyway. So....losing weight should be no problemo this summer...or so I hope. :)

My work is not done for tomorrow morning, so I guess I should probably get on that, right? :P

Ah, I would do anything for one night of really good rest....

Katie