I went to bed at 12:30am last night and got up at 5:15am.  I got almost five hours of sleep (not bad for this time of year).  The month of May should be so wonderful, especially in Western New York where spring is in full force with peaks at summer.  For me it has the stress of year end mixed in with the anniversary of my first child’s death.  Although my nearly four year old eldest child passed almost 22 years ago, the first two weeks are just sad for me.  I droop around and feel a general malaise.  Someday I will have a job where I do not feel this stress.  Or, better yet, after I retire I will not worry about:

• Did everyone get paid the amount they were supposed to get paid?
• Are we going to receive all of the things we have ordered before the year-end cut-off or are we going to have to carry the expense into next year?
• Am I going to collect enough revenue to cover my budget deficit?
• Why do I deficit spend?  I actually know the answer to this one but it doesn’t prevent it from keeping me up at night this time of year.
• Can I get all of the late conference championship expenses into this year?
• Why don’t I have a championship budget?  I know the answer to this one, as well.  However I have yet to convince upper management that I may be able to get a few more hours sleep during closing if I had one.
• Are “those coaches” who promised revenue going to collect before EOY in order to balance their budgets?
• Will all of the coaches get Letters of Appointment information to me in a timely fashion so I can set them up for payment on June 1^st?
• Did I over estimate remaining expenses (good thing) and under estimate revenue collection (another good thing)?
• And, the one that gets me every year even though I have planned ahead – why do I personalize this so that it keeps me up at night?

Until next time!

Jude Russo Caserta

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