My parents left yesterday for a trip to sunny Maine. It is good that my dad leaves the area so that he can actually have a break from work with no phone calls, pages or emails (at least from the Mill).  My mom is already complaining about the weather. Apparently you go to Maine in July expecting 70-80 degree temps not 90. I guess you could have ( Read more... )

I've gotten my first official job offer. I was offered a position at Cassopolis High School teaching biology, Advance Biology and Guided Academics last thursday. I told them I needed a week to think about it and here a week later all I have is ( Read more... )

Apparently being republican and having power in both congress and the white house makes statements like this useful to selling books. From ABC News tonight, "The group of outspoken 9/11 widows who pushed for the commission to investigate the attacks are "self-obsessed" and act "as if the terrorist attacks happened only to them," conservative author ( Read more... )

Remember me saying that because I wasn't that impressed with Cassopolis, well I got a second interview with them. Normally, if the principal wants you, the superintendent just interviews you to give you a rubber stamp. Well I guess they loved 3 people for 2 positions so I'm not exactly rubber stamped yet. I'm pretty sure I don't want the job at all ( Read more... )

These are the things I've learned in the pass 24 hours ( Read more... )

And so the drama begins again. 2 interviews this week ( Read more... )

Europe was wonderful, exhausting but wonderful. The entire trip was go-go-go. I flew overnight into Paris and had about 10 hours of running around and seeing all the sights. Then we hoped on an overnight train to Florence. Yes, the first two nights of vacation my bed was not stationary. Once we got to Florence, we discovered that we booked the ( Read more... )

24 hours from now I'll be flying over the Atlantic. I know you are all jealous.

Consider this the last update until at least Saturday, April 29th as I will now be updating from Italy/France.

I know I officially get the award for worst updating on LJ. A full month without an update but in my defense, I really haven't done much. Here let me summarize the past month ( Read more... )

I went to the doctor's today for my thyroid's checkup. I had blood work done last week and today I found out my little-Thyroid-that-couldn't is still my little-thyroid-that-couldn't. It's still underactive. So this time instead of just upping the dose from 50 micrograms to 75 micrograms, we are skipping 75 and going right to 88 micrograms ( Read more... )