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So every once in a while life just decides to kick you in the face...today was one of those days.
I bailed Caitlin out of a babysitting job today (She scheduled her make-up chemistry exam for the same time she was to babysit, and couldn't get a hold of the family, so this morning, with no notice, I show up to their door as a complete stranger and tell them that I am their new babysitter. Luckily, Dad is clueless, so he had no idea what was going on) and I take the kids down to the park. Well...combination of heat and other factors and I get sick in a trashcan while we are down there. A women from my church was there and she was trying to be nice, but I really just wanted her to leave me alone. So I had to call my mom to come get me and the kids (we had walked there) and take me home until Caitlin could come and get them. It was a rough way to start the day. (That was, btw, after a calamity of errors trying to get ready and get to their house).
So I come home, Caitlin gets the kids, I go to sleep because I feel shitty, and get awoken with a phone call from the director of the preschool I am working at. She called to tell me that she can only give me partial work this summer, and that is disappointing because I can't find work anywhere else, and I could really use the extra cash this year more than ever because of abroad.
Then, to top it all off, I get a phone call from a close friend at school, Ellen. She starts the conversation with "Oh man, what are we going to do?" Not the way that I like a conversation to start. I am clueless as to what she is talking about, so she tells me I have to go check my e-mail. I am checking it (all the while she is saying to me "I knew you hadn't checked it or you would have called.") So I know at this point that she is referring to the e-mail sent to us by the campus minister that we work with, but I am only skimming the e-mail, and the first part is all about how she and the baby are doing. I am trying to guess what is in the e-mail that necessitated a phone call (I am guessing that she is pregnant again, because after dealing with her on maternity leave this semester, we had talked about that being the worst thing that could happen) when I get to the part of the e-mail where she says that she will no longer be working with us...Fr. Erps wants someone who will be in the office everyday to work with us, and she has decided to come back only part-time (so she can be with her son, and her father who is dying of cancer). I completely understand and respect the reasons that she is coming back only part time, but she had told us when we left for the summer that she was going to be with us part time, and that was going to be her only job. Instead, they have given her something new, moved us to another campus minister (Rick), and then hired someone else to take over Rick's work.
I have never met Rick and now am going to be working very closely with him. That is really a strange feeling...especially because this came on so suddenly. I think it is all compounded because the transitioning will be taking place while I am in Ireland, and I will come back to a group that will be significantly different from the one that I left. I know that I am looking right now at all the things that I am losing in Katie (who has become a trusted friend and confidant) because I do not yet know what I will be gaining in this new relationship, but tonight I am just really sad and somewhat pissed off.
What a day...
I bailed Caitlin out of a babysitting job today (She scheduled her make-up chemistry exam for the same time she was to babysit, and couldn't get a hold of the family, so this morning, with no notice, I show up to their door as a complete stranger and tell them that I am their new babysitter. Luckily, Dad is clueless, so he had no idea what was going on) and I take the kids down to the park. Well...combination of heat and other factors and I get sick in a trashcan while we are down there. A women from my church was there and she was trying to be nice, but I really just wanted her to leave me alone. So I had to call my mom to come get me and the kids (we had walked there) and take me home until Caitlin could come and get them. It was a rough way to start the day. (That was, btw, after a calamity of errors trying to get ready and get to their house).
So I come home, Caitlin gets the kids, I go to sleep because I feel shitty, and get awoken with a phone call from the director of the preschool I am working at. She called to tell me that she can only give me partial work this summer, and that is disappointing because I can't find work anywhere else, and I could really use the extra cash this year more than ever because of abroad.
Then, to top it all off, I get a phone call from a close friend at school, Ellen. She starts the conversation with "Oh man, what are we going to do?" Not the way that I like a conversation to start. I am clueless as to what she is talking about, so she tells me I have to go check my e-mail. I am checking it (all the while she is saying to me "I knew you hadn't checked it or you would have called.") So I know at this point that she is referring to the e-mail sent to us by the campus minister that we work with, but I am only skimming the e-mail, and the first part is all about how she and the baby are doing. I am trying to guess what is in the e-mail that necessitated a phone call (I am guessing that she is pregnant again, because after dealing with her on maternity leave this semester, we had talked about that being the worst thing that could happen) when I get to the part of the e-mail where she says that she will no longer be working with us...Fr. Erps wants someone who will be in the office everyday to work with us, and she has decided to come back only part-time (so she can be with her son, and her father who is dying of cancer). I completely understand and respect the reasons that she is coming back only part time, but she had told us when we left for the summer that she was going to be with us part time, and that was going to be her only job. Instead, they have given her something new, moved us to another campus minister (Rick), and then hired someone else to take over Rick's work.
I have never met Rick and now am going to be working very closely with him. That is really a strange feeling...especially because this came on so suddenly. I think it is all compounded because the transitioning will be taking place while I am in Ireland, and I will come back to a group that will be significantly different from the one that I left. I know that I am looking right now at all the things that I am losing in Katie (who has become a trusted friend and confidant) because I do not yet know what I will be gaining in this new relationship, but tonight I am just really sad and somewhat pissed off.
What a day...