school visit 2019:
- email contract to school
- ensure school signs and returns contract
- make travel plans/reset forgotten passwords
- make sure certain clothes are washed
- pack those clothes
- pack flash drive
- pack clicker
- pack wipes (I was doing this long before COVID)
- check if state you are going to uses EZ-Pass
- if so, pack EZ-Pass
- forget to pack something (headphones? portable charger? socks?)
- get in as much family time as you can before you leave
- check in online for flight
- doublecheck that your airline rewards number is on the reservation
- travel
- doublecheck that your hotel rewards number is on the reservation
- enter school address into GPS night before to determine when to leave hotel
- catch up on the work you couldn’t do while in transit
- place towel on floor so you won’t touch hotel carpet when doing a workout
- (if it snowed overnight but school was not canceled) build in 5 extra minutes to clean off rental car (10 if it does not have ice scraper)
- figure out breakfast place on the way with food more edible than what the hotel serves
- accidentally run over cone kindly reserving your parking space
- scan license in school office
- meet host
- check tech
- fill water bottle
- smile at the audience
- do your thing
- sign books
- eat Panera with kids in library
- fist-bump your way out (I was doing this long before COVID; have not high-fived since 2014)
- return to get flash drive you forgot in the school laptop
- fill up rental car gas tank
- say hi to fellow school-visiting author you bump into at airport
- go home
school visit now:
- email contract to school
- ensure school signs and returns contract
- remind family not to vacuum or drop anything for the next little bit
- walk downstairs to home office
- (optional) raise standing desk
- turn on computer
- smile at the dot
- do your thing
- go back upstairs
Both have advantages. Both have disadvantages. I love both ways. But, of course, I cannot wait to be back in a school in person.
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