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summercomfort) wrote2026-04-24 08:56 am
summercomfort) wrote2026-04-24 08:56 am
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I survived Quest and Trips, yay!
Quest: Spring break was super productive! I inked 5 whole pages and shaded them, and even wrote historical notes and made it booklet-shaped! Pretty happy with what I managed to get done. Now I "just" need to do the second half -- Thind and Pandit. Quest Day itself went well, and what I have left to do is to (a) chase down the last few Quest videos, and (b) get the advisors to actually rate their students' Quests.
Trips: My trip went really well! No major hiccups, and all of the organizations and speakers worked out!! This is the smoothest it has ever been, and the kids really enjoyed it. Yay! I'd promised myself that I need a year off from running it so that I can go on other trips, but I'm really hoping someone else can take it over and run it for next year. Still todo: (a) return cash, (b) sort and process some of the various docs and stuff I got on the trip, (c) do a trip debrief with myself after I get more survey results (no more bucket hats?)
Something I've been thinking about is how recognition of work ... works. Like, people keep telling me that they enjoyed Quest, and there might be a gift card down the line, but what I really want is two no-homework days on the calendar. Or for advisors to actually rate their students' Quests. Like, I don't need a fist bump, I need structural support and acknowledgement. I need to be part of meetings about how Quest is promoted vs supported. Or trips -- I love running my trip, but also it's so exhausting and this year the chaperones just kept dropping out. And it's like -- I'm not fighting for chaperones, but please give me ones that won't drop out? It feels really bad to be busting my butt for trips but then to hear other people complain about having to do trips because they haven't had to for 3 years is completely demoralizing. To have everything on the school level to be handled last minute is frustrating. To feel like there's no support at home (what were all these purported "school support" people doing? At the very least send the airport release info??) is frustrating. Like, the trip leader compensation is nice, but what I really want is to not have to struggle with all of these other things, and that is really tied to other people caring about Trips.
Anyway, today is my "rest day" -- the child is at school, and the spouse is at work. I'm nominally at work, too, but I guess I should figure out whether I want to drive home and rest-up / do work at home, or linger around work and try to do work that way.
Things I want to get done:
- clean the car
- figure out summer trip plans
- respond to email about character database
- lesson plan for Monday
- wrap up the rest of Quest/Trips stuff
- do some grading
- draw some comic (maybe at least 1 more page?)
Quest: Spring break was super productive! I inked 5 whole pages and shaded them, and even wrote historical notes and made it booklet-shaped! Pretty happy with what I managed to get done. Now I "just" need to do the second half -- Thind and Pandit. Quest Day itself went well, and what I have left to do is to (a) chase down the last few Quest videos, and (b) get the advisors to actually rate their students' Quests.
Trips: My trip went really well! No major hiccups, and all of the organizations and speakers worked out!! This is the smoothest it has ever been, and the kids really enjoyed it. Yay! I'd promised myself that I need a year off from running it so that I can go on other trips, but I'm really hoping someone else can take it over and run it for next year. Still todo: (a) return cash, (b) sort and process some of the various docs and stuff I got on the trip, (c) do a trip debrief with myself after I get more survey results (no more bucket hats?)
Something I've been thinking about is how recognition of work ... works. Like, people keep telling me that they enjoyed Quest, and there might be a gift card down the line, but what I really want is two no-homework days on the calendar. Or for advisors to actually rate their students' Quests. Like, I don't need a fist bump, I need structural support and acknowledgement. I need to be part of meetings about how Quest is promoted vs supported. Or trips -- I love running my trip, but also it's so exhausting and this year the chaperones just kept dropping out. And it's like -- I'm not fighting for chaperones, but please give me ones that won't drop out? It feels really bad to be busting my butt for trips but then to hear other people complain about having to do trips because they haven't had to for 3 years is completely demoralizing. To have everything on the school level to be handled last minute is frustrating. To feel like there's no support at home (what were all these purported "school support" people doing? At the very least send the airport release info??) is frustrating. Like, the trip leader compensation is nice, but what I really want is to not have to struggle with all of these other things, and that is really tied to other people caring about Trips.
Anyway, today is my "rest day" -- the child is at school, and the spouse is at work. I'm nominally at work, too, but I guess I should figure out whether I want to drive home and rest-up / do work at home, or linger around work and try to do work that way.
Things I want to get done:
- clean the car
- figure out summer trip plans
- respond to email about character database
- lesson plan for Monday
- wrap up the rest of Quest/Trips stuff
- do some grading
- draw some comic (maybe at least 1 more page?)