Beneath the Wraps

        I don’t generally work on Wednesdays as it has been set aside for meeting with the RS presidency.   They used to meet on Mondays but I had asked if we could change the day as Mondays are generally the most requested days off and I can pick up sub assignments more easily than any other day.           Wednesdays are short days.   I don’t particularly care for short days.   Normally I leave the school a half an hour to an hour before the students let out, but on Wednesdays the kids get out of school at the same time as the aides – which makes for craziness in the parking lot and then driving home.   At least for two of the schools.   I have never worked the others on a Wednesday and guess I never will – at least for the time being.           Our meetings are usually at 10:00 – sometimes 1:00.   Two weeks ago it was announced that we’d...

          I didn’t realize how common, familiar or recognizable my face was until my mission.  People allowed me to enter their homes when they thought I was somebody else.           “Oh, you are not my niece, Pam,” one woman said after she let me in and then read my name tag.           I predicted that she and her niece must not have been that close.           I’ve had people seek me out to ask me questions or confide their entire life-history to me as though there was a neon sign on my head that said, “Please, tell me your life story.  Share all your woes with me.”           It didn’t seem to matter if I was looking at a book or engaged in another conversation.  People would horn in on my territory and pounce on me.  I hadn...