The Great Furniture Rearrangement

Rearranging furniture is a two person job. Now that I have said this, I moved my classroom furniture yesterday. Of course, I did it by myself. Never a good idea. My thought process was that I wanted to have my desk in the opposite corner from where the previous teacher had it. Well, that corner was currently occupied by a long table that held two student computers. A normal person would have taken those computers off and moved the table. Then, said normal person would reassemble the computers back on the table. I have never proclaimed that I am normal. Computers come with a lot of wires. I just didn't want to deal with all of that jumbled mess. I did the next best thing. (I use the term best loosely here.) I unhooked all of the wires that were attaching the computers to the wall, and I scooted that computer laden table across the room. By some miracle, that rickety old table, that I am sure was built by some poor spouse of a female teacher, held together. It was a little touch and go on those legs for a minute, but they all survived the move. 

Before

After

On to my desk! That desk may have looked small, but it was solid wood. I shimmied and twisted and turned it. A few minutes later it was in the perfect spot. That left my computer and its table on wheels (yay) to move. Did I mention my computer is hooked to the SmartBoard. The SmartBoard has it's own tangled web of wires. If I want my desk and computer on the opposite side of the room, I will have to run the wires back up into the ceiling tiles and across to where I want them. Don't worry, I was aware of this beforehand. It was just my luck that an experienced teacher was in the building. I moseyed my way down to her end of the hall before I got started. My luck could not have been any better. She had just finished moving her SmartBoard and all of it's wiring. She gave me brief rundown of how to do it. Next step, call the hubby, who graciously accepted my invitation to help me move all of those wires on his next day off. Too bad I couldn't have been patient enough to wait for him before moving that desk and computer table.

What's next? Tomorrow, I have the day off from my other job. I will be going over to start on bulletin boards and organizing shelves again. I will follow that up with a visit on Friday to get all those wires moved. I am sure Friday is going to be full of all kinds of fun and adventure.