A Day in the Life

Sometimes people who don't work here are interested in what a typical day is like for me. So here's my daily schedule for this session:

7:15am -- Wake up, shower, take the dog out, etc.
8:00am -- Breakfast
9:00am -- Morning Meeting
9:15am -- First Period (Aerial Cradle--I teach)
10:15am -- Second Period (Double Trapeze--I teach and base)
11:15am -- Third Period (Adagio -- I teach and catch)
12:15pm -- Lunch
12:45pm -- Rest Hour (Usually I rest, but sometimes we have meetings or work to do during this time of day)
1:45pm -- Afternoon Meeting
2:00pm -- Fourth Period (Flying Trapeze--I teach and catch)
3:00pm -- Fifth Period (Spanish Web--I teach)
4:00pm -- Snack
4:15pm -- Sixth Period (Period off)
5:15pm -- Seventh Period (The five circus intensive kids work out with me)
6:15pm -- Dinner
(After dinner I'm usually off until around 8pm, but sometimes we have evening rehearsals and other times we do open flying trapeze for campers or staff)
8:00pm -- Circus Staff Meeting
10:00pm -- Sometimes I'm still working, other times I'm off. One night per week I'm on duty in the office until midnight.
12ish -- Sleep

That's how pretty much every day goes this session (it'll change in a week once session two starts) except on Mondays, which are my days off, and Sundays when we get to wake up an hour later and the afternoon is full of longer, full-cast rehearsals and circus maintenance.

They are full, exhausting days. But it's great to be so busy and to be able to sleep at night without having to take Tylenol PM (which I have to use every night at home in order to get any sleep at all).

Today was my second day off this summer and Chris and I went to Glens Falls to get some last minute stuff she needed for costumes. It was really hot out, so we mainly hung out at the mall even after she was finished shopping, then we went to a movie (we saw Wanted. Angelina Jolie is it's only redeeming quality, just so you know). Now we're back in Long Lake and Chris is at the bar and I'm at camp in our cabin finishing up some real world stuff (bills) before falling back into the normal schedule tomorrow.