{"id":573893667,"date":"2021-10-15T21:49:08","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T01:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573893667"},"modified":"2021-10-16T19:00:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T23:00:45","slug":"easing-into-the-weekend-with-an-11-hour-day-at-the-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2021\/10\/15\/easing-into-the-weekend-with-an-11-hour-day-at-the-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Easing into the weekend … with an 11-hour day at the office"},"content":{"rendered":"

My morning started with a meeting. I used the Zoom option, because some people have trouble with masks. My day ended with another meeting. There was no Zoom option. I wish there had been a Zoom option. But not because of the masks. <\/p>\n

My day should have ended with that meeting, but I ended up running into a prospective student and her father and talked about the school for a while. And I shot an instructional video and finally left the office at 7 p.m. On Friday. All of this was made possible because that Friday afternoon meeting ran until 6 p.m.<\/p>\n

In between those meetings, though, I caught up on a week’s worth of emails and many of the small chores that fill up everyone’s work week. I also went to the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to get a temporary handicapped driver placard. The Yankee can’t drive for a few weeks, doctor’s orders, but parking on every college campus in America is a premium commodity, and she’ll be limited in her walking distances the next few weeks. <\/p>\n

So I got the temporary tag. And I updated my car’s registration, as well. And this was the time of the day when the sun broke through the clouds. It was a wonderful moment to be outside doing things.<\/p>\n

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The other thing I did was to notice that the BMV office is close to Carson’s<\/a>, the best barbecue in town, so I picked up a sandwich to take back to the office.<\/p>\n

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It isn’t Bob Sykes<\/a>, but it will do get the job done in the moment.<\/p>\n

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I haven’t updated this space with any of the student television this week, so let’s get caught up. <\/p>\n

The morning show introduced us to some service dogs and had some other great segments, as well. <\/p>\n