Jens is gone for three weeks. I'm leaving for Thanksgiving in Portugal with the fam three days before he gets back. I won't see him until exactly four weeks from today. I miss him already. He had friends over to visit this weekend, though, and I really had fun with them. In the time he's gone, I'm going to learn some German and probably call a ( Read more... )

picked it up and handed it in today. It's really, really, really done ( Read more... )

my new battery is here ( Read more... )

update on the week ( Read more... )

Tomorrow morning I get to bring a chair home on the DART. It'll be an experience. I'll probably take a taxi home from the station, though it's only an 8-minute walk. There's something about the indignity of wheeling an office chair through one's own neighborhood. I see these people all the time ( Read more... )

Today ended up absolutely lovely. Yesterday was great as well: the sun was shining, I met the parents' friends Fran and Irwin for lunch in town, turned in a movie lesson plan for next week so the students will finally get their long-asked-for movie on Thursday (contrary to what they say, boss allows one a month, not one a week), talked to the boss ( Read more... )

Today's cover was gorgeous as anything! Instant chemistry with the class and some dose of natural energy, got the timings close enough that I finished everything PLUS time for charades, and... aw. One of the Mauritians told me I moved like a dancer and should go to such-and-such a club. Also I was awoken by the most satisfying thunderclap this ( Read more... )

oh man. the check from work came through. I am sorted. Even better if Candice can chip in her 400, but even if she can't I have enough to cover that, live until the check from invigilating, and by then pray I have a new job. And we'll have income from subletters, too- Rob might take one of the rooms, and we have a response from some Italian ( Read more... )

IH morning class schedules go 9-11 and 11:30-1:30, with each teacher teaching a different class each period. teaching the intermediates first thing was decent. The pre-ints, though, were dears! I like 'em. And guess what? Erin's sick all week, and I hope she feels better soon, but that means I get four days of four-hour-a-day cover. That'll ( Read more... )

Happy 25th Anniversary, Mom and Dad ( Read more... )