Every once in a while I remember that there's a little over a month left of kid school and I still don't have any summer job prospects. I've sort of given up, but I can't really do that because I need to, like, eat. If anyone knows of any jobs in the Amherst/Northampton area, do tell. I'm open to just about anything at this point. I have a B.A. in ( Read more... )

I don't. It's not that I don't enjoy it (most of the time). It's just that I feel like I'm not exploring my potential. There have to be other things I'm good at. I know for a fact that there are other things I'm good at. I've been searching for job for a year. A whole fucking year. Most of them have involved working with kids, and none of them have ( Read more... )

I'm feeling really bummed out today. I'm realizing that if I want to find a job I need to get out of western Mass. I was just talking to my friend from Denver and she kind of confirmed my suspicions that if Nate and I want to be doing more with our lives than we're doing now we need to relocate. Then I found the perfect job for him out in Boulder. ( Read more... )

It's ridiculously warm out right now. About 60 degrees and it's only 9 am. I'm thinking about wearing shorts, but I don't have a cover on my leg yet and I haven't worn shorts without a cover on my leg... ever. Or mabye I did like five years ago last time I got a brand new leg. I'm trying to decide if I care or not that people are going to stare at ( Read more... )

Monday I had aaaa flat tire, so I went to the tire place and was talked into buying two new tires since my front tires were basically bald. $160. A couple weeks ago I had to get new brakes, I also got the AC fixed and some other shit done. $400. This morning I pulled into the parking lot of the school where I work, which is a very small parking lot ( Read more... )

I just had a phone interview for a teaching fellowship at the Citizen Schools. I'll know by early next week if I'll have a face-to-face interview. Phone interviews are weird. I have even less of an idea of how it went than I usually do. Oh, and if I happen to get this fellowship, expect not to see me for two years because it sounds like it will ( Read more... )

Today I beat a bunch of 10-year-old boys at bowling. This is a big deal to me because I never win at bowling. And one kid got like three strikes. The trick is consistency, boys. I also had to deal with some major 'tude from a 6th grade girl. I have a hard time figuring out whether I like boys or girls more (as in: kids to work with, watch, be ( Read more... )

My tooth hurts. It's probably time to get that fucker out, but it's too complicated-- finding a dentist, finding someone to bring me there and back, finding a way to take time off work-- so I'm going to just deal with it. For now.

It's never going to stop raining, I think.

So I don't know who decided 8:40 would be a good time to do snow removal on Union St., someone stupid obviously. 8:40 is when everyone is trying to get to the school, or if you're me, trying to leave. So I had to go to CVS and that fastest way to King St is to turn left onto Union St. and then Market St and so on. When I turned onto Union St I was ( Read more... )

I'm really envious of people who get to take vacations. The girl I work with in the morning is going to be away on vacation for the next week, this is the same girl who was out sick all last week and didn't call until Friday to let anyone know what was going on. Our friends just went on a cruise, which looked super fun. I'm kind of over this winter ( Read more... )