I’m signed up with a temp agency and I got my first assignment: a two-week position in a nearby school office.

I am looking forward to trying out this working parent thing for just the two-week stint. If it’s absolutely horrendous I can easily remove myself from the temp agency’s employment and embrace a future spent within the four walls of my house.

I’m guessing it will be mostly but not completely horrendous. Hopefully not enough to dissuade me from going back to work. It will, at the very least, be a massive learning experience for all of us.

Please send your best tips for working parents.

Discombobulating subject change:

I had a dream a few nights ago that I was playing a waterlogged piano. I remember many of my dreams and they are often very vivid, but I don’t usually assign much meaning to them beyond the obvious connections. But this waterlogged piano has me mystified. It feels like it must have greater significance, but I can’t think of what that could be.

Please also send your best guess for the meaning of the waterlogged piano.

Another non sequitur:

We have no plans this weekend, because I have a longstanding commitment to not making any plans the first weekend after school has started (thank you, Jen Hatmaker, for this and all your other parenting advice that I didn’t know I needed). I love having no plans.

The last non sequitur:

Earlier this summer I picked out the Netflix series Wednesday as my new gym-only show. The gym-only show is an important part of my motivation to go to the gym and I’ve gone through several gym-only shows in the year and a half that I’ve had a gym membership.

Today I am watching the rest of Wednesday from the comfort of my basement couch. Because you know what? I’m willing to try out the full-time working parent lifestyle for two weeks. But I know I’m not going to even attempt the full-time working parent and dedicated exerciser lifestyle. Someday I will have to, but not this time.