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I had a fun, relaxing, relatively productive weekend. Ran into my old landscaping boss. The guy is the most badass person you'd ever meet. He's just a regular looking guy, has kids, stepkids, grandkids, and countless adopted kind of kids like me. But he's done the coolest stuff. Special Ops Ex-Navy SEAL can tell you what happened but not where or when kind of things. It was fun seeing him.
Messed with the horsey a lot and made a bit of headway on the grad-school thing. The next big thing is Letters of Recommendation. Which won't be a big deal since all of my teachers have brought it up before I've had to. I'm pretty friendly/casual with them all but I hope asking over their Christmas break isn't too rude or anything.
I've learned my dad has gotten a sabattical this summer in Paris! He's always looking for any reason to go abroad to "enrich" his teaching methods. Or y'know. Excuse to travel. If I don't get a job at one of the ranches/resorts I've been applying to I think I'm going to have to get over there. Free place to stay while he's there and then I can trip around some neighboring countries! I'm going to try to get my sister in on it. I'm sure she'd love to but it depends on if she's teaching summer school or her and the hubby have plans, etc. My Terrified of the World Mother has decided not to go. Surprise surprise. ANYway, thing is this would cost a lot of money (right before I want to go to grad-school no less), while working somewhere cool would make some money. Then again, when else is family going to be somewhere cool I can save said money on while visiting there? Either way, teh Wanderlust has been a burning lately. I think I've been blessed with a contentedness with the current state of my life, but it's starting to wear thin. I love to travel and I feel like the longer I don't get out and about the less I'm likely to. I'm kind of hoping this decision gets made for me by whether or not I get any of the jobs.
But that's a while away. One thing at at time. This is finals week at the school, which means all of the students will be selling their books back right after the test. We hire temps, (which is how I started here) to help with the process. There's lines, and stacks and stacks of books, and money handling, and lots of grumbling college kids who usually don't get half of what they paid for. It's gonna be busy, but it'll also be fast and I'm getting extra hours. After this week I think the rest of the year will smooth out nicely. I feel like there's this big hill of many things to get over before January hits and then I can just take a big breath and kick back for a bit.
Messed with the horsey a lot and made a bit of headway on the grad-school thing. The next big thing is Letters of Recommendation. Which won't be a big deal since all of my teachers have brought it up before I've had to. I'm pretty friendly/casual with them all but I hope asking over their Christmas break isn't too rude or anything.
I've learned my dad has gotten a sabattical this summer in Paris! He's always looking for any reason to go abroad to "enrich" his teaching methods. Or y'know. Excuse to travel. If I don't get a job at one of the ranches/resorts I've been applying to I think I'm going to have to get over there. Free place to stay while he's there and then I can trip around some neighboring countries! I'm going to try to get my sister in on it. I'm sure she'd love to but it depends on if she's teaching summer school or her and the hubby have plans, etc. My Terrified of the World Mother has decided not to go. Surprise surprise. ANYway, thing is this would cost a lot of money (right before I want to go to grad-school no less), while working somewhere cool would make some money. Then again, when else is family going to be somewhere cool I can save said money on while visiting there? Either way, teh Wanderlust has been a burning lately. I think I've been blessed with a contentedness with the current state of my life, but it's starting to wear thin. I love to travel and I feel like the longer I don't get out and about the less I'm likely to. I'm kind of hoping this decision gets made for me by whether or not I get any of the jobs.
But that's a while away. One thing at at time. This is finals week at the school, which means all of the students will be selling their books back right after the test. We hire temps, (which is how I started here) to help with the process. There's lines, and stacks and stacks of books, and money handling, and lots of grumbling college kids who usually don't get half of what they paid for. It's gonna be busy, but it'll also be fast and I'm getting extra hours. After this week I think the rest of the year will smooth out nicely. I feel like there's this big hill of many things to get over before January hits and then I can just take a big breath and kick back for a bit.