An emotional day

Jun 06, 2009 18:32

I woke up half way this morning in the middle of dreaming that the reason behind my contract delay was because I was only going to be teaching four classes instead of five next year.  At first, this was good, then I realized that that would probably mean that they were going to cut my pay by 20%.  So I had trouble getting all the way back asleep, and when I woke for real, I was half-convinced of the pay cut.

Then the mail came, and the assessor had refigured our assessed value of our house, which they started doing automatically last year.  Our value is $100K less than last year.  That means that, combined with last year, our house is worth about 50% of what we paid for it.  Even with our big downpayment, we are officially underwater.  The silver lining is that we'll be paying about $1000 less in property taxes this year.

Then I went to crochet group, and only 2 of the 7 who had RSVPed showed up.  I was one of the two.

Then Lance and I went to the movie theater, hoping to finally see Star Trek, but it wasn't playing for another hour and a half.  Up was playing in 40 minutes, though, so we bought tickets for that.  But Up started at 4 PM, which is when matinee prices stop.  Seriously.

Up was really fabulous, though I probably cried through about a third of the film.  See it, but bring tissues.  Some parts are really rough.

Now I have to grade papers for the rest of the night.
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