WAJ: Volunteer Update

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I've collected all the volunteer sign-up sheets, and I'm pretty happy that 65 parents have stepped up to the Walk-A-Jog volunteer plate. I need to coerce/cajole/beg/ approximately 20 more to do the same. It's so hilarious to look at the sheets because there is one job in particular that nobody wants. A whopping 3—count 'em 3!—masochists have agreed to work as jumpy monitors. I dutifully took this job last year, and it did, truly, feel as if I were being punished by the gods for some long-ago wrongdoing. Basically, you spend an hour yelling yourself hoarse and end your shift staring at the heavens and being thankful that you're still standing. These are some of the things that came out of my mouth while monitoring the 3rd-5th grade jumpy:

"Nope. Nope. Nope! Don't grab him like that! Unacceptable! That's unacceptable!"

"No. You need to go to the back of the line. There's a line! You have to go to the back."

"Stop! Stop! Someone is gonna get hurt! No, no, noooooooooo!"

"One at a time! One at a time! Careful, careful!"

"I see you. You think I can't see you? I see you! Seriously, you need to go to the back of the line."

So, yeah. Wish me luck rounding up the jumpy monitors...