My dad joined the church today. This is possibly the weirdest thing that has ever happened. My dad was seriously anti-church as I was growing up. He always complained that my mom spent too much time there, whether it was church service or various volunteer type of stuff. But in the past year, he's been going every week with mom, EVEN weeks when ( Read more... )

Well, I am now officially the wife of an American citizen. Ollie's citizenship ceremony was this morning and it was very nice. Me, my parents and my Uncle Ray were there to see 50 people become American citizens. There were several people from Africa (including, I believe, a refugee from Sudan.), also Poland, Russia, India, China, Venezuela, the ( Read more... )

I haven't been so excited to vote since I was 18. Which, admittedly, wasn't all THAT long ago, but still. Ollie was up till he heard the concession speech, he was so excited, it was really adorable. I know he wanted to vote so bad. I was really so proud to be an American. I'm not sure I've ever felt so proud of my country. In all honesty, I ( Read more... )

I am more than a little confused. Today is the first day of the library's used book sale AKA one of the highlights of my year. I wake up, get here shortly after opening at 9, and can't find ANYTHING I want to buy. granted, I'm a little picky. As much as I love books, I recognize that A.) I can't buy unlimmited books because there is just not ( Read more... )

Today is P-burgh's 250th birthday. Rock on! Right now I'm at the library, wondering why the new improved facebook annoys me so. I'm survived my first month as a HS librarian and am actually enjoying it. Well, in general, I just enjoy being a librarian. talking about books and finding answers to questions pleases me a lot. My library aide and I ( Read more... )

Well, it was a funny week. Began with massive remenants of Ike wind storm on Sunday night, which resulted in power going out in 2nd quarter of Steelers game. Grrrrr. Didn't return till sometime Monday afetrnoon. It was a pain, but could have been much much worse, since there are still folks scarttered around town that still don't have power ( Read more... )

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Had a very busy week go by, after doing little or nothing for the majority of the summer, I was suddenly strangely active. well adjusting to new work schedule/ death commute has taken some time. Also Ollie has returned to school and that is a crazy adjustment. Since p-burgh has lame public transportation, the end of his classes and the bus home ( Read more... )

Well I'm still here. I've been busy, now that my daily commute is 100 miles. It's really horrifying to see the odometer go up so quickly. And the gas guage go down so quickly. The short version is the only place that offered my sorry self a job is a high school in Butler. My compelte lack of HS experience and the commute of death stress me out ( Read more... )

Had 4 interviews this past week. 1 was at district in Beaver county, 2 was in Washington county (and a place where I applied last year with disasterous results) 3 was in Butler and a long term high school job and 4 was second round interview/demonstration lesson for Washington county ( Read more... )