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Interesting, when I google livejournal and my username the first hit is not my page but somebody else's. I guess it makes sense since I've posted comments to her site many times more than I have entries on mine...
Was forced to find page through means other than my bookmark because my computer refuses to turn on this morning. I've entered a new stage with it where one gets to experience the excitement and thrill of uncertainty. Will it turn on? Once on will it stay on for any significant length of time? Or only long enough to get your hopes up before abruptly shutting down again? I'm going to have to send it off for repairs but I'm still trying to get everything salvageable off of it in its moments of lucidity.
Well, lets see, on Friday I substituted for the first time, it would have been crazy and scary enough even if the computer system had not misfired and I had known that I had the job earlier than say 40 minutes after it started.... And then, once I got there, the teacher's lesson plans turned out to be completely useless as they relied entirely on a guest speaker that never showed up. (Here I'm using "guest speaker" in place of "Army recruiter" and the accompanying rant on highschools that actually try to aim kids at the army, it's shorter this way...) It all settled down eventually, but I really can't help but wonder what the kids see when they look at me, I mean I remember looking at subs and making all these, probably terribly wrong, decisions about who they were and what their life was like.
Today could have been day 2 of substituting but apparently they do not need me, which means I got up at 5:30 for nothing. Though it did allow me to read the entirity of Connie Willis's "Bellweather" before 8 am, which is kinda like an accomplishment right? So here I am at 8:30 in the morning and I already feel like a nap, I should probably go and do something constructive but really cleaning is boring and with my computer down the only other choices are reading and TV. And after a Willis novel TV and the other books I checked out feel insufficiently interesting (I mean how many of them are gonna combine science, snippets of classics and some delightful, but not overbearing, romance? My guess is very, very few...). Well I suppose I can just purposelessly web surf, one can always amuse oneself with the random links and whatnot... Or maybe I'll be a good girl and find something more productive (though the length of this entry suggests I'm desperate to avoid that!) Well anyways I've more than exhausted the stuff I actually had to talk about so: Hi-ho Browser Away!
Was forced to find page through means other than my bookmark because my computer refuses to turn on this morning. I've entered a new stage with it where one gets to experience the excitement and thrill of uncertainty. Will it turn on? Once on will it stay on for any significant length of time? Or only long enough to get your hopes up before abruptly shutting down again? I'm going to have to send it off for repairs but I'm still trying to get everything salvageable off of it in its moments of lucidity.
Well, lets see, on Friday I substituted for the first time, it would have been crazy and scary enough even if the computer system had not misfired and I had known that I had the job earlier than say 40 minutes after it started.... And then, once I got there, the teacher's lesson plans turned out to be completely useless as they relied entirely on a guest speaker that never showed up. (Here I'm using "guest speaker" in place of "Army recruiter" and the accompanying rant on highschools that actually try to aim kids at the army, it's shorter this way...) It all settled down eventually, but I really can't help but wonder what the kids see when they look at me, I mean I remember looking at subs and making all these, probably terribly wrong, decisions about who they were and what their life was like.
Today could have been day 2 of substituting but apparently they do not need me, which means I got up at 5:30 for nothing. Though it did allow me to read the entirity of Connie Willis's "Bellweather" before 8 am, which is kinda like an accomplishment right? So here I am at 8:30 in the morning and I already feel like a nap, I should probably go and do something constructive but really cleaning is boring and with my computer down the only other choices are reading and TV. And after a Willis novel TV and the other books I checked out feel insufficiently interesting (I mean how many of them are gonna combine science, snippets of classics and some delightful, but not overbearing, romance? My guess is very, very few...). Well I suppose I can just purposelessly web surf, one can always amuse oneself with the random links and whatnot... Or maybe I'll be a good girl and find something more productive (though the length of this entry suggests I'm desperate to avoid that!) Well anyways I've more than exhausted the stuff I actually had to talk about so: Hi-ho Browser Away!