surprise respite day at work

Due to some kind of scheduling snafu, the class I was supposed to give yesterday (Wednesday) was canceled and I got to spend 8 hours at my desk with my coworker, hashing over issues, writing documentation, getting data entry done, and actually LOOKING at the materials for the next class before GIVING IT - wonders never cease. I'm so used to winging it with classes that this threw me off. Of course HQ would rather keep trainers off balance, I expect, because when we get to look at materials ahead of time we do inconvenient things like write emails pointing out that the materials are WRONG. Not completely wrong, but enough to cause the participants to doubt the credibility of the source.

The class I gave Sunday, it was the first time giving that one, winging it along and talking blithely about stuff I'd had a brief exposure to the week before, and I was an hour into the class before I realized the pages were in the book backward. I had punched the holes in the wrong edge. But the participants in the class would never have known the difference if I hadn't just about choked laughing.

I guess I recovered okay from that. Then I used my own wallet as a prop while explaining things, and, well... I didn't realize until I stopped at the grocery store on the way home... yup, you got it, I had left it mixed in with my other props. Sunday was a day. After that, of course, it's like eating a toad for breakfast. The rest of the week went fine by comparison.