my love she throws me like a rubber ball
I keep getting the urge to write lately, but I'm not really sure what all I have to write about. So we'll see what comes of this.
I am still waiting to hear whether or not TCI wants me to work the summer program, although I hope to have an answer by Friday or Monday. (Actually I'm waiting for a lot of things; as I told Kristian last night, I feel like my whole life is waiting, but I'll get to that later.) The decision about the summer program is kind of the key factor in making pretty much any and all of my other summer plans. It determines when I'll be moving up to Canada, and therefore when I need my security deposit back from Lauren, as well as when I stop paying rent here (ooh, when I would need to call and cancel cable/internet or get it transferred into Lauren's name if possible). Anyway, it also determines whether or not I need to look for some other kind of summer job, and most likely how much of my savings I will need to eat into before I get a real job, because I don't know how likely it is that I'll get anything else substantial for the summer. So I'm really hoping they give me an answer soon.
Anyway, my (other) point in all of that is that regardless of their decision, I'm planning on going up at the end of June to visit Brad for a little bit, because if I DO end up working the summer program, I wouldn't get to see him till August otherwise, and there's no way I'm doing that again. May to August without seeing him was torture when I did it in 2007, and I'm just not putting myself through that nonsense again when I don't need to. So that's a nice little something for me to look forward to at the end of the school year, regardless of whatever else might be going on then.
The other big thing I'm waiting on is to hear back from a job interview I had awhile ago. I've been kind of superstitious about not saying anything about it in here, but I guess that's kind of silly because I've told a lot of people about it anyway. Anyway, I had an interview with a district in Toronto on April 30. They were nice enough to do a phone interview with me, and I think it went fairly well. I sent them a thank you letter for the interview and then waited. And waited. Even though I knew that they were doing interviews through May 14 (they had given me that date as an option when they set up my interview), I still started getting worried because I hadn't heard anything. Then last week, my supervisor told me that the guy I'd interviewed with had called him to check my references and he thought the conversation was positive. So that got me kind of excited again, but I still haven't heard anything, and I really have no idea what kind of timeline they're working with. So I'm hopeful but nervous and mainly just trying not to think about it too much. In any case, I'm still filling out the immense application packet for the College of Psychologists of Ontario, which is what I needed to do in order to potentially get a job with some of the other districts I'd sent my resume to earlier.
So mainly, what's going on with me is that a lot of big details in my life are very much up in the air after June 26 (the last day of school). It's a bit nerve-wracking, to say the least, but I'm optimistic that things will get resolved one way or another.
Tomorrow is Sarah's birthday, and I made her something special because we've been friends for almost 20 years. I won't say here what it is, because even though I don't think she's touched her LJ in years, this would be the one time she'd happen to read mine and that would be unfortunate. Anyway, I'm going down to Philly on Sunday so that we can go see Up and get some food and play with her new super adorable kitten!!! I'm very excited about the kitten; she posted pictures of him on facebook and he's SO little and SO cute and I can't wait to play with him. :D
Mmmm, what else? I miss the boy a lot. I really really want to just move up there already, and it's so close but so far at the same time. It's also no fun when I have a dream about him but then have to just tell him about it over IM and can't even hug him. Definitely tired of that. Meh. Um, in other, unrelated news, my computer is dying. It's a Dell laptop and it's three years old and I use it constantly, so it's not too surprising, but of course I do not have any money for a new computer. It's doing this lovely thing where even though it will be plugged in, it will suddenly go on battery power, as if it's not plugged in. Then if you move the cord around a little, it will figure out that it is really plugged in and be fine again. Really a pain, and then on Friday it was really bad, where I had to hold the plug pressed into the computer really hard for like fifteen minutes in order to get it to recognize that it was plugged in. Oddly, since then, it was totally fine, staying plugged in the whole time . . . until like two minutes ago, when it just went to battery power for no apparent reason again. Joy. Speaking of things that cost money I don't have, the last time I got my oil changed, I was told that next time my car would need two new front tires (which means doing the alignment as well), and I think a brake flush or something like that. Yes, because I have several hundred dollars laying around just waiting to be spent. *sigh*
Hmm, I guess I actually did have a bunch to say. Well, I'll keep you all posted on the job front and other such things. If anyone happens to know someone who needs a babysitter on the weekends or anything like that, I could really use the opportunity to make a little extra money. Take care, kids.
I am still waiting to hear whether or not TCI wants me to work the summer program, although I hope to have an answer by Friday or Monday. (Actually I'm waiting for a lot of things; as I told Kristian last night, I feel like my whole life is waiting, but I'll get to that later.) The decision about the summer program is kind of the key factor in making pretty much any and all of my other summer plans. It determines when I'll be moving up to Canada, and therefore when I need my security deposit back from Lauren, as well as when I stop paying rent here (ooh, when I would need to call and cancel cable/internet or get it transferred into Lauren's name if possible). Anyway, it also determines whether or not I need to look for some other kind of summer job, and most likely how much of my savings I will need to eat into before I get a real job, because I don't know how likely it is that I'll get anything else substantial for the summer. So I'm really hoping they give me an answer soon.
Anyway, my (other) point in all of that is that regardless of their decision, I'm planning on going up at the end of June to visit Brad for a little bit, because if I DO end up working the summer program, I wouldn't get to see him till August otherwise, and there's no way I'm doing that again. May to August without seeing him was torture when I did it in 2007, and I'm just not putting myself through that nonsense again when I don't need to. So that's a nice little something for me to look forward to at the end of the school year, regardless of whatever else might be going on then.
The other big thing I'm waiting on is to hear back from a job interview I had awhile ago. I've been kind of superstitious about not saying anything about it in here, but I guess that's kind of silly because I've told a lot of people about it anyway. Anyway, I had an interview with a district in Toronto on April 30. They were nice enough to do a phone interview with me, and I think it went fairly well. I sent them a thank you letter for the interview and then waited. And waited. Even though I knew that they were doing interviews through May 14 (they had given me that date as an option when they set up my interview), I still started getting worried because I hadn't heard anything. Then last week, my supervisor told me that the guy I'd interviewed with had called him to check my references and he thought the conversation was positive. So that got me kind of excited again, but I still haven't heard anything, and I really have no idea what kind of timeline they're working with. So I'm hopeful but nervous and mainly just trying not to think about it too much. In any case, I'm still filling out the immense application packet for the College of Psychologists of Ontario, which is what I needed to do in order to potentially get a job with some of the other districts I'd sent my resume to earlier.
So mainly, what's going on with me is that a lot of big details in my life are very much up in the air after June 26 (the last day of school). It's a bit nerve-wracking, to say the least, but I'm optimistic that things will get resolved one way or another.
Tomorrow is Sarah's birthday, and I made her something special because we've been friends for almost 20 years. I won't say here what it is, because even though I don't think she's touched her LJ in years, this would be the one time she'd happen to read mine and that would be unfortunate. Anyway, I'm going down to Philly on Sunday so that we can go see Up and get some food and play with her new super adorable kitten!!! I'm very excited about the kitten; she posted pictures of him on facebook and he's SO little and SO cute and I can't wait to play with him. :D
Mmmm, what else? I miss the boy a lot. I really really want to just move up there already, and it's so close but so far at the same time. It's also no fun when I have a dream about him but then have to just tell him about it over IM and can't even hug him. Definitely tired of that. Meh. Um, in other, unrelated news, my computer is dying. It's a Dell laptop and it's three years old and I use it constantly, so it's not too surprising, but of course I do not have any money for a new computer. It's doing this lovely thing where even though it will be plugged in, it will suddenly go on battery power, as if it's not plugged in. Then if you move the cord around a little, it will figure out that it is really plugged in and be fine again. Really a pain, and then on Friday it was really bad, where I had to hold the plug pressed into the computer really hard for like fifteen minutes in order to get it to recognize that it was plugged in. Oddly, since then, it was totally fine, staying plugged in the whole time . . . until like two minutes ago, when it just went to battery power for no apparent reason again. Joy. Speaking of things that cost money I don't have, the last time I got my oil changed, I was told that next time my car would need two new front tires (which means doing the alignment as well), and I think a brake flush or something like that. Yes, because I have several hundred dollars laying around just waiting to be spent. *sigh*
Hmm, I guess I actually did have a bunch to say. Well, I'll keep you all posted on the job front and other such things. If anyone happens to know someone who needs a babysitter on the weekends or anything like that, I could really use the opportunity to make a little extra money. Take care, kids.