The Field Day Post

We had what is called Middle School Field Day this week, where the kids are split into teams and compete in a bunch of relay races. My job was to help supervie the obstacle course. This mostly entailed making sure that the kids who were supposed to put their forehead down on the end of a bat and then run around it three times, actually performed the task properly. This is challenging and exacting work, much more difficult than, say, seeing if they had jumped rope 10 times. I had to make sure their heads were actually on the bat. I had to make sure the other end of the bat was on the floor. And I had to make sure that they ran around the bat not 1, not 2, not 2 1/2, but three full times. And I was ruthless about it. No middle schooler underrotated on my watch. I didn't realize until I'd started back to my office afterwards that I was almost as dizzy as the kids.