Trying to Get Ahead-But I'm So Tired

Each morning when I wake up, I feel sluggish, but bounce back within a half hour. The energy seems to peak about 2:00, and then slowly slows and by the time I'm home, I feel down right drained again. I have an appointment at the end of the month and until then, I'll continue taking the vitamin D and iron as prescribed and melatonin at night to try and at least maximize the quality of my evening sleep. We've had steamy weather too, and while heat generally hasn't bothered me, just like the cold of winter, the extremes are starting to get to me. I never could live in the tropics, or probably even the southern US states in the summer.

I'm still in a weird office move situation. I think I explained there is chain move situation in which a sublease organization needed to move out of the building, so division A could take their spaces, and 1/2 of my division B, could move into theirs, freeing space for 1/2 of division C, which leaves the last of division B (mine) and C, coordinating a flipping of  office space, but not quite one to one. As the logistics were not organized in advance, and due to vacations and just plain procrastination, there have been bottlenecks starting all the way with the subleasers vacating space. I packed and moved most of my stuff, organizing what I could but sine my computer docking station and phone haven't been moved yet, I've been working from a sparse cubicle, waiting for the now, overwhelmed IT consultant to get me moved. six of us are in this same position. There's still a swapping of items from file cabinets or moving the cabinets entirely. I need nine lateral drawers for documents that are old, but still need to be accessed periodically, otherwise we've done a great job purging. I've got file sin my office down to four small file cabinet drawers and one large, and quite frankly, could probably do another purge and wouldn't miss anything. 

Other than the move, we've got about four weeks before we start ramping up for fall and the start of the school year. When you work in education, but not in schools, people thinking you also have down time in the summer. The only thing that gives us a little break is that we have fewer stakeholders needing to reach us daily, but this is the time close the prior year and prepare for the year ahead. Come the week after labor day, our calendars will blow up until the school year norms a bit. My team has fiscal year end reports to complete, training session to get scheduled, and the updating of all the training we will provide starting in mid-August through September. It's busy, but I like this time as its our best opportunity to really think about the upcoming school year needs and hopefully get ahead. The vacation schedules are both a help and a hindrance. On one hand, it is quieter; there is more access to copiers and the computer lab and other shared resources. On the flip side, juggling meeting times with people that need to collaborate can get tricky. It is not uncommon for co-workers to not see each other for 4-6 weeks at a time if their vacation schedules and any work conference (also a major part of summer) schedules conflict. 

At home, despite being pretty darn tired, there is laundry to do, supper to get on the table (or as often as not, in a bowl while sitting on the couch watching  TV or YouTube). I'm frustrated with DD2's slow progression on her thank you notes. She's being thoughtful on what she writes, but they should have been out weeks ago! I'm giving her until Friday-not sure what the consequence will be, but I'm giving her until then. We've got some admin for college to get done today. I may take an hour or two off this afternoon or tomorrow to take care of it with her. There are additional health office forms, and some follow-up records for her AP courses. 

It's already mid-week. I feel like I blinked and lost two days. Summer is like that. I long for the lazy and long days I remember in the past.