One day like this a year'd see me right!

11/6/2008

So typing in a journal. I forgot I had that capability. I've just not written much of anything lately for and about myself. I kept thinking to, kept thinking I should start a new blog, get onto a new project but, alas, I have too many reasons to not. Old things tie you. You become so attached for so many reasons that it's easier to go along with what was then ditch it all for something new. Maybe I can have duel diaries; one for random, "this is what's going on" as D.D. is, and one for "this is really what's going on." I'd like that. I'd like it to be without hype and without promotion too. Just sitting there, waiting to be read by the random passer by.

But anyway, so what's going on? Okay, I'll write it down. I'll list it even since that's making things easier for me these days. I have to first mention that I'm quite down today too. I have this nagging feeling about the election; what the world wants generally isn't a good thing, as most people can agree. So it's scaring me to death at what's to come (though I know I shouldn't be.) And since I'm so in the minority on this, I won't say anything else about it. I just hope it really is the right thing.

So back to the list:

Librarian School still hasn't given me a thumbs up or down and I'd really like to know if I'm in because otherwise I need to send transcripts to other schools (not that I have the money for that anyway. It seems like my stakes have to be set in this school I'm awaiting a word on anyway.)

I have been offered a temporary full time job at the Cape. This means I have to give up teaching in the afternoons and try to manage just teaching at night at least until Christmas. Today I have to meet with the professor who is taking over for me then meet with the class and get them ready for the exam next week. Plus, I have papers to grade and turn back so I have to make sure everything is accounted for before I turn them over to someone else. I like the students there, I do, but teaching in the afternoons has been a bit of a pain. I leave in heavy 5 o'clock Orlando traffic and I'm starving and ready to go home, just to have the empty apartment waiting for me. But I digress...

So, the new job requires security. I've gone through all the security clearance hoopla (even having to report the statistics of my ex and not B.B. which I found odd) and about my traffic violations (I can't remember that stuff!) and the drug test (they tricked me and gave me a breathilizer too; good thing I didn't have a beer the night before!) That should be cleared, if they get ahold of everyone who I listed as friends, neighbors and co-workers, and they don't find any discrepancies in my file, in six to ten days. Next week, I'm hoping, will begin regular work.

11/10/2008

10:35

It's not even 11 in the morning and I'm already hungry and making pasta for lunch. Oh well.

I'm also forcing myself to grade papers and get things in order. I really should tally grades up too but, alas, I just want to be done with the class I'm dropping and go back to fiddling around with fun work for the class I'm keeping. I met with the new teacher last week, the one who is taking over for me in for the afternoon class. I am so grateful for him to take this class over and I'm glad the students are optimistic about him teaching them. I can't help but think how teachers are so stuck in their own ways and I'm wondering how this transition will go on Thursday. I keep thinking too, how the new teacher sort of gave me 20 questions about how and what I did things, even giving me the typical, "Well did you try this with them?" What was most "interesting" about the new teacher's suggestions is that I've taught for a longer time and {cough cough} have more experience under my belt. But, we all know how people love to be; oh, let me give you my advice and my input on something you never asked me to give you advice or imput about.

Anyway, I'm done with that after today too. (Unless said new teacher continues to ask me questions about it. I'll go as far as to mention that I'm a tender hearted gal and this is an older man so it's safe to say we both have vastly different approaches to teaching.)

So back to this pasta I'm cooking. I'm back on my diet after going to every fast food place in town. I've thankfully not gotten too big but, alas, I have to really watch my intake again. I'm hoping with the full time job and the regular schedule it will cut my food down to size once again. I will no longer be sitting around being bored at night and munching as a form of entertainment. (I have even resorted to food shopping as an activity of exercise and mental occupation in the wee hours of evening.)

I'm starting a different exercise routine as the treadmill in my local gym has been broken for, oh, 3 months now (at least). I started jogging a bit on Friday and while I could be doing the same today, I have these papers around me and the starvation making me ill at the moment, so instead I'm typing and waiting for my whole wheat rotini to boil for 15 minutes.

11/11/2008

10:50

I'll tell you what I'm sick of. I'm sick of stupid Firefox. I don't understand why its add-ons break the browser. I don't understand why some add-on toolbars show up whenever they feel like it. I don't understand why websites simply won't work in it sometimes. I don't understand why it lost its appeal so quickly just by being crummy. I don't understand how I can need, yet another browser, such as Chrome to combat Firefox's lack of performance. And I thought IE was bad. Sheesh.

Anyway, I'll put together this blog post today. It's been a while so I really should get cracking on it. I worked at school late last night so some work is done, but, alas, some work still needs to be completed. And no calls for my new job yet, no calls from Librarian School. Only random hang up calls from Unknown callers as usual.

Man, I'll be glad when I can work and get the credit monsters off my back, at least for a while.

12:31

No sooner did I write that when I was called for my new job. I start on Monday. Of course, thanks to my parents, I started getting that second guessing feeling of, "You know it's only temp work. You only get temp work, you never get regular work like everyone else..." Stupid thoughts. At least I can fight them off a lot easier now though.

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