I wouldn’t trust me either.

I lied to someone twice today. Actually, the first time I conveyed a lie. The second time I was just flat out lying.

I’ve mentioned before how this time of year leads to confusion and mistrust and it didn’t help that there was a distraction. I found out on Friday that one of my speech contest choices (long story) had voted himself off the island, so to speak, and was refusing to go to the speech contest. He claimed I’d chosen someone else (not true). I suspected that he’d merely improvised his speech (and did quite well) and that’s why 1) he hadn’t given me a written copy of it and 2) was resisting going to the speech contest.

Turns out, that was all true.

However, that was the only thing I was right about today.

First, I sent our new people to another building to deliver cards–repeating what someone else had said–only to be there when the cards were returned as it wasn’t necessary to turn them in.

Then, I stayed later than necessary because I thought had to check final marks because the schedule I had listed today as final marks day. At about four o’clock, it was revealed that, in fact, final marks had been moved to tomorrow and that my schedule was well past the “use by” date.

I then exploited Canadian Guilt–which I just learned existed–to avoid having to go in early tomorrow. (Long story.)

All this makes me, arguably, the least trustworthy person in the school.

This, however, may be a good place to be as it guarantees no one will ever come to me for advice and I’ll never be responsible for anyone’s actions.

Now if I could just figure out a way to scale this to other parts of my life…