So after selling a costume, I had a little bit of play money and I needed some new supplies and fabric for my current stuff, so I went through all the different Memorial Weekend sales (both in store and online) and ended up getting the supplies that I needed plus a few things that I wanted. In all I spent 135.79, and with my recent money dilemmas, that would be a lot of money. But when I went through all the "original" prices of everything, I felt a little better spending this money. If I would have paid original price for everything, I would have paid $594.65; so I have a savings of 458.86.
Much better. Now, to actually get going on the projects.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
=(
I didn't get two of the teaching jobs that I interviewed for.
At least this time it wasn't on a Wednesday. =s
At least this time it wasn't on a Wednesday. =s
Monday, May 23, 2011
Reading and job finding
So I've been slacking off this year when it comes to what I'm reading. Either I'm just too tired to pick up a book and read it, or there really hasn't been anything that I've been wanting to read. Well, I got this offer online for BOGO (buy one get one) on books from Borders and I decided to go in and see if there was anything new that caught my eye. I ended up leaving with 4 books for the price of 2 and some good early summer reading.
I'm reading two of them right now and I like them so far. Alice in Zombieland is the first one. This book is written in the same style as Pride and Prejudice and Zombie and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. They are fun more modern takes on the "classics" and he does a good job with it. He keeps the writing style and tone of the original author and twists it around to include those newer themes. I'm not sure if I'm totally sold on the notion of Alice, but I'm only halfway done (I've just gotten to the croquet game) so we'll see how it ends up.
The second is Red Riding Hood, but not the fairytale version. Apparently this book was based on the screenplay for the movie of the same name which came out earlier this year. It is pretty well written and is reading at a fast pace, which is nice for me. It has many of the same elements of the original fairytale but seems to mix in elements from M.Night Shyamalan's "The Village" and the whole werewolf thing that is popular right now. They gave Red Riding an actual name, which is nice, and they make Grandmother a bit more mysterious instead of being this nice old lady.
I'm still in the middle of the second book from the Sword of Truth series, but that is my car book, so I don't get to it as often. I tend to have books in various stages of reading throughout the house and my car, and occasionally my sidebags so I always have something available to read if I am waiting for something/someone.
Now, on to finding a summer job. This has been more difficult that I thought. Apparently teaching experience isn't considered "customer service" experience so I keep getting turned down for jobs because of that. I refuse to do fast food service, but I may have to start applying for hostess or waitress jobs yet again (not something I'm looking forward to). And when I tell employers that I'm looking for full-time work during the summer but I would have to go to part-time when school starts back up, they usually say "thanks but no thanks" and show me the door. I may have to leave that part out from now on. I am looking to go part time in the fall so I'll have two jobs, but that may be difficult depending on what my job is in the fall. I still haven't heard back from the schools that I interviewed at and I sent them a little message this morning. There is a teaching position available in Park City, but that is a drive from where I live at the moment and I don't think I want to make that drive everyday next fall/winter. I still applied and I'm waiting to hear back from them. Perhaps I need to find an apartment in Park City and stay there during the week and then come back down during the weekends. Eh, we'll see if I even get called for an interview.
I'm reading two of them right now and I like them so far. Alice in Zombieland is the first one. This book is written in the same style as Pride and Prejudice and Zombie and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. They are fun more modern takes on the "classics" and he does a good job with it. He keeps the writing style and tone of the original author and twists it around to include those newer themes. I'm not sure if I'm totally sold on the notion of Alice, but I'm only halfway done (I've just gotten to the croquet game) so we'll see how it ends up.
The second is Red Riding Hood, but not the fairytale version. Apparently this book was based on the screenplay for the movie of the same name which came out earlier this year. It is pretty well written and is reading at a fast pace, which is nice for me. It has many of the same elements of the original fairytale but seems to mix in elements from M.Night Shyamalan's "The Village" and the whole werewolf thing that is popular right now. They gave Red Riding an actual name, which is nice, and they make Grandmother a bit more mysterious instead of being this nice old lady.
I'm still in the middle of the second book from the Sword of Truth series, but that is my car book, so I don't get to it as often. I tend to have books in various stages of reading throughout the house and my car, and occasionally my sidebags so I always have something available to read if I am waiting for something/someone.
Now, on to finding a summer job. This has been more difficult that I thought. Apparently teaching experience isn't considered "customer service" experience so I keep getting turned down for jobs because of that. I refuse to do fast food service, but I may have to start applying for hostess or waitress jobs yet again (not something I'm looking forward to). And when I tell employers that I'm looking for full-time work during the summer but I would have to go to part-time when school starts back up, they usually say "thanks but no thanks" and show me the door. I may have to leave that part out from now on. I am looking to go part time in the fall so I'll have two jobs, but that may be difficult depending on what my job is in the fall. I still haven't heard back from the schools that I interviewed at and I sent them a little message this morning. There is a teaching position available in Park City, but that is a drive from where I live at the moment and I don't think I want to make that drive everyday next fall/winter. I still applied and I'm waiting to hear back from them. Perhaps I need to find an apartment in Park City and stay there during the week and then come back down during the weekends. Eh, we'll see if I even get called for an interview.
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Track meets
I thought that when I didn't accept the offer to coach high jump this year, i was able to get away from track and the amount of time it took up. Apparently not. This year, the university decided that they were going to add in a video element to their track meets and they approached me to be the Video Director of everything. I thought it would be easy since I've done stuff like this before. Apparently not. It started out well but then got frustrating and overloaded for what they want to do.
First, I have no problem coming up with crew, but it is the crew that doesn't work with me. First off, when you commit to something, you'd better have a good reason not to show up (or not to even call and say what is going on). Reliability isn't what it used to be. There is no way that I would act like that towards someone giving me a job to do. If I can't make it, I let people know about it and in as much advance as I can so they have a chance to find someone else to replace me or I come up with someone to replace me. I had a crew of 7 set, ready to go and when Friday came around, only 3 of them showed up and I haven't heard anything from the others. Looks like my list of people that I can't trust to work with has just gotten longer. Apparently Responsibility, Reliability, and Accountability isn't held high any more.
I think this can all work out well, it is just the ability to do what I need to do with people I can trust. And they were even going to get paid.
At least for now, the track season is over and I have my weekends back. Now it is on to finding a summer job and something more for next fall . . . which is harder than it looks, but that is for another post.
First, I have no problem coming up with crew, but it is the crew that doesn't work with me. First off, when you commit to something, you'd better have a good reason not to show up (or not to even call and say what is going on). Reliability isn't what it used to be. There is no way that I would act like that towards someone giving me a job to do. If I can't make it, I let people know about it and in as much advance as I can so they have a chance to find someone else to replace me or I come up with someone to replace me. I had a crew of 7 set, ready to go and when Friday came around, only 3 of them showed up and I haven't heard anything from the others. Looks like my list of people that I can't trust to work with has just gotten longer. Apparently Responsibility, Reliability, and Accountability isn't held high any more.
I think this can all work out well, it is just the ability to do what I need to do with people I can trust. And they were even going to get paid.
At least for now, the track season is over and I have my weekends back. Now it is on to finding a summer job and something more for next fall . . . which is harder than it looks, but that is for another post.
Tuesday, May 03, 2011
Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad . . . Morning
I hate mornings when you get out of bed and from that moment on things just aren't going right for you.
This morning was one of them.
From the point that I got out of bed, I stubbed my toe on the bed frame. Then I poured milk over me at breakfast. I stepped on Jimmy's tail when reaching for my shoe. I left my lunch sitting on the counter when I left for work. I hit every red light on the way to work. I left my sunglasses sitting on the table at home and it was bright outside. My key broke in the lock at work and they had to bring someone from the district out to issue me a new one and remove the broken part. And the kicker of the morning: I was verbally accosted by a parent for asking her son to try his best at PE.
And all this happened before 10:45 this morning.
That last bit is what I'm so upset at at the moment. I know I shouldn't be and I should just let it slide off my back, and I've been trying, but I can't let go of it.
Here's the story:
The second class of the day is a 4th grade. There is this one student, we'll call him Cub, who didn't show that anything was wrong during warm-ups or the walk out onto the field. After I explained the game and split the class into teams, he told me he wasn't going to play and I asked him why. He said his knee hurt (later he told me he had a displaced bone which I still don't believe). I asked him to play to the best of his ability. And that is what he did. I didn't force him to play. I didn't say "You're playing or else" I just told him what I tell any of the other students. He didn't hand me a doctor's note or a parent's note or anything. I can't take the word of students because if I did, half the time I wouldn't have a class to teach.
About 10 minutes later, Mama Bear came storming onto the field while I was teaching a class and started yelling at me about Cub. That I "made" him play and that I should "trust her son because he doesn't lie" and that "I'm going to sue you because of what you did. We're going to the doctor's and if there is permanent damage, you'll be liable for it". That is a verbal accost. She's the one that can get in trouble for it. I did apologize if she thought I did anything wrong, but I don't think I did anything wrong. After this happened, I went to the secretary to let her know about it and I learned that this mother had bullied another teacher because her son didn't come in first. Apparently the family is very competitive.
I'm just upset about it because I know the power that parent's have in districts when they think that their "Cubs" are not being treated the way they think they should be. I am worried about losing my job because if I lose this job then I am in trouble for next year. I'm not sure if I even want this job for next year, but at least it pays the bills.
I'm trying to turn this morning around by having fun with the students and taking them outside because they want to go outside and playing with them. I'm trying to turn this around by writing about it and getting it out of my system. I'm trying to turn this around by talking with other people and getting my side of the story written and heard. I'm just hoping that my story will be heard and not just drowned out by a Mama Bear who is out on revenge.
This morning was one of them.
From the point that I got out of bed, I stubbed my toe on the bed frame. Then I poured milk over me at breakfast. I stepped on Jimmy's tail when reaching for my shoe. I left my lunch sitting on the counter when I left for work. I hit every red light on the way to work. I left my sunglasses sitting on the table at home and it was bright outside. My key broke in the lock at work and they had to bring someone from the district out to issue me a new one and remove the broken part. And the kicker of the morning: I was verbally accosted by a parent for asking her son to try his best at PE.
And all this happened before 10:45 this morning.
That last bit is what I'm so upset at at the moment. I know I shouldn't be and I should just let it slide off my back, and I've been trying, but I can't let go of it.
Here's the story:
The second class of the day is a 4th grade. There is this one student, we'll call him Cub, who didn't show that anything was wrong during warm-ups or the walk out onto the field. After I explained the game and split the class into teams, he told me he wasn't going to play and I asked him why. He said his knee hurt (later he told me he had a displaced bone which I still don't believe). I asked him to play to the best of his ability. And that is what he did. I didn't force him to play. I didn't say "You're playing or else" I just told him what I tell any of the other students. He didn't hand me a doctor's note or a parent's note or anything. I can't take the word of students because if I did, half the time I wouldn't have a class to teach.
About 10 minutes later, Mama Bear came storming onto the field while I was teaching a class and started yelling at me about Cub. That I "made" him play and that I should "trust her son because he doesn't lie" and that "I'm going to sue you because of what you did. We're going to the doctor's and if there is permanent damage, you'll be liable for it". That is a verbal accost. She's the one that can get in trouble for it. I did apologize if she thought I did anything wrong, but I don't think I did anything wrong. After this happened, I went to the secretary to let her know about it and I learned that this mother had bullied another teacher because her son didn't come in first. Apparently the family is very competitive.
I'm just upset about it because I know the power that parent's have in districts when they think that their "Cubs" are not being treated the way they think they should be. I am worried about losing my job because if I lose this job then I am in trouble for next year. I'm not sure if I even want this job for next year, but at least it pays the bills.
I'm trying to turn this morning around by having fun with the students and taking them outside because they want to go outside and playing with them. I'm trying to turn this around by writing about it and getting it out of my system. I'm trying to turn this around by talking with other people and getting my side of the story written and heard. I'm just hoping that my story will be heard and not just drowned out by a Mama Bear who is out on revenge.
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