1) I finally made a damn list. My brain never needed lists before, but now it does. Not only did I make a list, I managed to get 25% of it done yesterday. (Uh, but all school related.)
2) My advisor (academic, not jesus-y) complimented me on my discussion points in seminar, and said "I can tell you were a great teacher." that was pretty cool, especially since I feel like such a freaking loser for having everything so screwed up this semester.
3) She also pointed me to a job that she’d just sent over the listserv, and when I checked it out, GODDAMN, if only it was up for grabs 6 months from now. It’s at primarysource.org, part-time, flex, using both of my degrees, DOWNTOWN (as in DOWNTOWN HERE, not downtown Portland, which seems odd for there to be such a job in my city), and starting (for 20 hrs a week) is 15-20k. (To compare, starting for F/T teachers around here is generaly less than 25k.) Oh, and my advisor knows the hiring person really well, too. (You know, small town, all of that.) Seriously, if it was in SIX MONTHS, I would be all over that job. But I just can’t apply for it at this point. It’s doing professional dev with teachers, so I imagine it would be lots of summer inservices and such, and just… if it was posted in 6 months! Sigh. (It did make me feel good to be tipped off to that, though, in the "hey, check the listserv.." I saw her in class and said what a GREAT job it sounded like, and how bummed I was at the timing, and she was like "yeah, I totally thought of you for that.") I mean, I don’t know that they’d find my "passion for world history" up to par, but I’m not AVERSE to world history (and love learning about different cultures — hi p.phone! — and traveling and reading and all of that…) but maybe I’d need more tiki heads in my house or something. ANyway.
4) The Violent Femmes are playing at the mountain this month! Whoo! (For those that may not know, my license plate for ~ 10 years said "VLNT-FEM." I mean, it started when I was 18, and then became an easy way to be recognized, more than once I had an old friend track me down in some place by saying "I saw your car on the street!" When I started teaching, I gave it up. Sigh. Grownups.) I’ve seen them twice, in 94 and in… 97? Maybe? I lived on Court street at the time, so between 96-99, anyway. They must be so old looking now. And by virtue of that, won’t be surprised by the very pregnant 30 year old drinking ginger ale in the crowd, right?
I saw them three times in Anchorage! Gordie’s brother lives in Wasilla and we used to drive down all the time when they would come to Alaska to play. The last time was al ittle sad, though, with all the fans my age 25+ and the band 40+ and still singing “I want a date to the prom…” But I still love the Femmes.
OMG!!! YOu have to go. I might just come up and go with you. tee hee. If it makes you feel any better I went to see Dandy Warhols in Dec and did spot a 30yo preggie in the crowd. And trust be, no one noticed her, they all noticed the drunken near 40yo frat-boy wannabes making asses out of themselves.