Finals & A New Workload

 Last night I was excited to hear that Wawasee would be hosting Cameron's summer tennis league.  A five minute round trip to the high school was a lot better than driving to Middlebury and it gave me a chance to see Cameron play again.  The rain had other plans for the night, however, as shortly after the boys started warming up, the match was called.  Cameron was disappointed, but he and the "Jacobs" made the best of it by going to dinner at Pizza King.  While he was having fun, I decided to go ahead and start unpacking and get a load of laundry done with my new washer and dryer.  

The free evening also gave me a chance to catch up with Brett and Meg.  Brett's workload had increased threefold this week as one of the women in his department was on maternity leave and another person resigned their position.  Thus, Brett was the only one left to complete the duties of three.  He was excited about the challenge and happy for the extra pay that he would receive in commission and overtime.  He was also extremely nervous about making it all happen.  He checked in after day one and was happy with his progress.  I encouraged him to keep in contact with his supervisor so that he could prioritize the increased workload.  He was anxious about the increased responsibilities, but overall felt good about it and looked forward to the weeks ahead.

Meg was also anxious about her week when I talked to her last night.  She had finals in her four main I-Core classes and was extremely worried about them.  The finance midterm was a lot harder than she had envisioned it would be and wanted to score better on the final.   She had studied quite a bit for it these past few weeks and because of that, she wasn't able to put as much time into operations as she had previously.  She was very nervous about that test, but needed to get through marketing on Monday night before she could focus on operations.  She called when her marketing final was over to let me know that she felt pretty good about that one.  She was going to spend the rest of the night getting ready for operations.  

These past few weeks have been challenging for her, but I know that she will find success.  She and Brett have plans to do something on Wednesday night after her finance final.  She will have someone to complain to about school who completely understands the stress of it and he will have someone to talk to about his week at work.  Either way I know that they will both be happy when the week is over.