Future-now
I do not know what it is.
I have sat on my butt all day, mostly watching Dr Who, except for short breaks to, say, make popcorn or plant pansies. I have read LBD fluff, messed around with 3 different gmail accounts, played FB scrabble, and planned out some of my lessons for Monday.
I am simply, incandescently, flutteringly-hopefully-not-quickly-diminishingly happy.
I signed up for a photography online class for the coming month. I looked at my schedule, and realized that I have photos, to take for people, for which I could set up a website and a portfolio, and that I'm getting paid for - and this could be every weekend this month, except the labtechs are all going on some retreat thing, so it won't be the whole time. I looked around for studio space and shot off a couple of emails to people who might let me use their kilns. I looked up summer plans - dance classes and an art history class to take and things that I'll enjoy.
I talked with my little brother about traveling - he, as well as I, would love to be able to bop around Europe and see all sorts of amazing places. There's a website that I linked to on FB, I think, a long while ago, that he's kept -- that shows under 50 euro flights from whatever your point A is. He talked about a story he read where some guy and his date just popped down to Italy for a date, got dinner, slept over, and flew back the next day. (This is the little brother who really wants to go to Cambridge. I'd love to see him there, but I'm not sure he's got the grades - he has, gasp, a social life instead, though he's certainly bright enough.)
But there's a groupon out right now for the TESOL, which is usually like $600, for $70, instead. The TESOL is the cert you need to teach English in a foreign country - and I started thinking about options.
Because, hey. I'm going to talk to my principal about next year. I have some job apps out, I may put more out, I may not, for the moment. But if I don't have a job next year - because the Friends' schools don't take me, because I'm not needed or let go or bite the bullet and quit - I see me going to Europe for this http://www.orientlindyexpress.com/ and for the Hagia Sophia. And maybe, just maybe, I'll get a job there. Would be pretty cool, honestly. But we'll see.
I'm looking into getting more teaching certs - Art K-12 and Library Science. If I pass them now, PSD will pay the $100/additional cert that I'd have to pay the state. (A little odd that every time I abbreviate my district I think post-traumatic stress-disorder, though I suppose that has an extra t)
I'm looking into grad school, as well. Problem being, I want to do all the things; still. I need to take the GREs; I need to put a portfolio together. I kind of want grad school to be in the Philly area - I love my dancers and don't want to go - but I'm exploring options. UPenn would be lovely - if I could get in, and if I could do it around work. Of some kind, because even if I'm not teaching, UPenn is crazy-expensive. Some sort of M.Ed. or M. Art Ed. or MAT Arts or - in the self-indulgent world that I'm not sure I can afford - MFA.
Exploring options. Feeling hopeful. Also sneezy, but this house gets me after a couple of days, and it's been much more than that. Energized. Not dreading Monday morning.
It's nice.
I have sat on my butt all day, mostly watching Dr Who, except for short breaks to, say, make popcorn or plant pansies. I have read LBD fluff, messed around with 3 different gmail accounts, played FB scrabble, and planned out some of my lessons for Monday.
I am simply, incandescently, flutteringly-hopefully-not-quickly-diminishingly happy.
I signed up for a photography online class for the coming month. I looked at my schedule, and realized that I have photos, to take for people, for which I could set up a website and a portfolio, and that I'm getting paid for - and this could be every weekend this month, except the labtechs are all going on some retreat thing, so it won't be the whole time. I looked around for studio space and shot off a couple of emails to people who might let me use their kilns. I looked up summer plans - dance classes and an art history class to take and things that I'll enjoy.
I talked with my little brother about traveling - he, as well as I, would love to be able to bop around Europe and see all sorts of amazing places. There's a website that I linked to on FB, I think, a long while ago, that he's kept -- that shows under 50 euro flights from whatever your point A is. He talked about a story he read where some guy and his date just popped down to Italy for a date, got dinner, slept over, and flew back the next day. (This is the little brother who really wants to go to Cambridge. I'd love to see him there, but I'm not sure he's got the grades - he has, gasp, a social life instead, though he's certainly bright enough.)
But there's a groupon out right now for the TESOL, which is usually like $600, for $70, instead. The TESOL is the cert you need to teach English in a foreign country - and I started thinking about options.
Because, hey. I'm going to talk to my principal about next year. I have some job apps out, I may put more out, I may not, for the moment. But if I don't have a job next year - because the Friends' schools don't take me, because I'm not needed or let go or bite the bullet and quit - I see me going to Europe for this http://www.orientlindyexpress.com/ and for the Hagia Sophia. And maybe, just maybe, I'll get a job there. Would be pretty cool, honestly. But we'll see.
I'm looking into getting more teaching certs - Art K-12 and Library Science. If I pass them now, PSD will pay the $100/additional cert that I'd have to pay the state. (A little odd that every time I abbreviate my district I think post-traumatic stress-disorder, though I suppose that has an extra t)
I'm looking into grad school, as well. Problem being, I want to do all the things; still. I need to take the GREs; I need to put a portfolio together. I kind of want grad school to be in the Philly area - I love my dancers and don't want to go - but I'm exploring options. UPenn would be lovely - if I could get in, and if I could do it around work. Of some kind, because even if I'm not teaching, UPenn is crazy-expensive. Some sort of M.Ed. or M. Art Ed. or MAT Arts or - in the self-indulgent world that I'm not sure I can afford - MFA.
Exploring options. Feeling hopeful. Also sneezy, but this house gets me after a couple of days, and it's been much more than that. Energized. Not dreading Monday morning.
It's nice.