When You Walk Through a Storm

First, we are literally in the middle of a blizzard/ice/snow/wind advisory. I plan on not walking through this storm, but staying safe inside the house. That is, unless the electricity goes out and we have to huddle around the unsafe gas oven. But, we have plenty of provisions, and could hunker down if needed. Last year, I think we missed 4 days of school because of an ice storm. You don't fuck with Mother Nature in Iowa.

Second, I am figuratively in the middle of a storm regarding yearbook. The culture of laziness has permeated my staff and I'm at a loss as to how to rectify the situation. Especially when I go into each day just hoping to make it through yearbook with nobody asking me a computer question I can't answer, and hoping that everybody gets busy. Gets busy on what? Some people have no pages currently in the hopper. There is always little tasks to be done, and I'm usually busy with those.....meanwhile, pages sit. I want more pages submitted, and we can't seem to get 'er done.

Anyway, part of it is this time of year: the winter sports are still going on and we don't have the group pictures back yet. I guess I have to have faith that people will get busy once they can; that the atmosphere will switch into a more productive one; and that I will not go stinking crazy in the mean time.

So, as Elvis is crooning this fine Sunday morning, when you walk through a storm, hold your head up high. Or have another cup of coffee and be thankful the snow is falling and there is no school today or tomorrow anyway.