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I got a rage!

Posted on 2009.08.17 at 20:34
Current Mood: cranky
LOL... Yeah, I kinda forgot about this or I may have been blistering it this summer.  First I get fired in April because an a-hole parent didn't like the way I talked to her kid after he took someone's lunch and hid in in another students' bag... then she bragged about how she got me fired all over the school.  Her kid bragged about it in class, dividing my class and keeping them agitated the rest of the school year.  Even my high achievers' grades dropped and they were getting suspended for disrespect. On top of that, she had no intenetion of returning to the school this fall.  So she got me gone, ruined the whole last marking period for the entire class and this will negatively impact their state test scores this year.  (Let's not forget that MY class from the previous year had the highest gain in the whole school.  But I'm a lousy teacher.)

So, job gone = moving back to old hometown and into my boyfriend's MOTHER'S house - she never leaves the house.  No privacy.  Maybe we get the house to ourselves once a week... before this past weekend it was 3 SOLID WEEKS that she never left the house.

After looking all summer, finally got a job in a daycare/preschool.  Was supposed to be doing HeadStart - but they are spending their funds in school-based sites, so now the director wants me to help her craft a 3 and 4 year old preschool curriculum.  She also said something about training me as a part-time director by next summer.  Sounds good?  It's only about 1/3 of the pay I was getting and not enought to even get my own apartment. 

Only I'm not in the preschool, I'm in the toddler room. The 85 degree, 85% humidity, a/c busted toddler room.  Today they supposedley got it fixed - we'll see tomorrow.

I'm thankful to at least have a job again, but shit! at 55 you'd think I'd have some stability in my life.

There!  I feel better now...

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Diana is coming!

Posted on 2009.07.23 at 22:51
Current Mood: ecstatic

Diana Gabaldon is coming!

OMG - can you hear me squeeing all the way from MI to GA?????

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Waiting...

Posted on 2009.07.18 at 19:38
Current Location: Dining room table
Current Mood: irritated
Current Music: John Denver - Farewell Andromeda
It seems I spend a great deal of time lately just waiting... waiting to hear from the unemployment office... waiting for jobs to appear to apply for, waiting to hear from jobs I have applied for, waiting for investors for CYBER HUNT... waiting for DragonCon... waiting till I can have a place of my own again, waiting... it sucks.

I've never been a patient waiter-type person. 


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Being Jobless

Posted on 2009.06.08 at 09:56
Current Mood: contemplative
Current Music: Mindi Abbair
Being jobless is interesting, in a strange, uneasy kind of way... I scour the 'Net looking for jobs to apply for, send things out like dropping coins in the well in the LOST island... never to hear from them again. 

I've had lost days sitting in front of this machine playing "Wooden Path" and endless games of Spider, watching all the eps of HARPER'S ISLAND several times... in between restless sessions of housework here at Jerry's mom's house... sigh... read several novels, lost my Tilly, my last little guinea pig... spent time with the grandbabies...
 
And in general have slowly adjusted to the fact that I will always have this unfinished school year in my history, and just what am I going to do with that?

Anyone else been in this situation?



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Author SQEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

Posted on 2009.02.25 at 21:47

Alan Dean Foster!!! Yippee!!!

Anyone remember The Drowned World?

I love meeting authors!

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Froggy Pics

Posted on 2008.08.25 at 05:40
I emailed them with this question but got no response... thought maybe someone has an answer for me here...

I asked them if it was OK to get 2 of us in the pic and if there was any additional fees... Jerry and I have been getting photos with celebs together for a while now...

Any info would be helpful!

Jerri - (isn't it Thursday yet?)

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Celebrate! Celebrate! Dance to the music...

Posted on 2008.05.16 at 21:40
Current Location: Watching Moonlight for the last time... damned suits!
Current Mood: ecstatic

We made A Y P!!! It's been a battle...

Did I tell ya we made A Y P?

...after appealing the state coz the main office  - for the 2nd year - screwed up our pupil accounting, causing the state to tell us we didn't, which got our admin digging, which resulted in the appeal being filed ON TIME this year, unlike last year, when the scores we had DID have us making it, and the same kind of asshole error kept us from officially making it, coz the main office never forwarded the paperwork to us...

Insert A Y P Happy Dance here...


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Finally!

Posted on 2008.01.31 at 05:31
Current Location: waking up on the couch
Current Mood: satisfied
Current Music: TV weather report
Finally: got to Weight Watchers to join last night!

Finally: started putting Splenda in my tea instead of sugar!

Finally: stopped drinking Coke!

Finally: got my new walking shoes!

Finally: feel like I'm getting on track. 

My next personal goal is  to spend at least 10 minutes 3 times a day doing a brisk walk, like during my lunchtime when the gym is empty, etc. 
(Along with getting to the gym... sigh... which I haven't managed yet...)

Jerri - Titanic thinking about starting to turn... LOL

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Posted on 2007.07.08 at 11:27
Current Location: In front of TV and 'puter simultaneously
Current Music: CNN news (Jerry's choice!)
HMMMMMMMMMM... facing this blank space is a bit intimidating on a Sunday morning before breakfast... LOL  ANYway, read my bio and if you're feeling like it, send me a shout-out...

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