Weekend
I've had a pretty relaxed weekend. Lots of computer games and reading. Scott's been over at our house a lot. Tony's helping him move right now.
There still aren't any jobs for me to apply for.
I'm thinking about going for some day care jobs this year if I don't get anything else this September. I love teaching so much but not knowing one month to the next how much money I'm going to be making and how much I'm going to be working is really getting to me and it's hard on our budget. I like day care. I enjoy working with babies. I'd be making less money per day but it would be steady work so I think it might be worth it. I'm still hoping that they're going to post a bunch of jobs tomorrow. Teachers go back to school tomorrow. Maybe administrators will realize that they're short on staff and post lots of jobs. I can hope.
I just finished reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies today. I've been reading it pretty slowly because the orignial Jane Austin parts are sometimes hard to read. I would like to re-read the original again though to find out what parts Seth Grahame-Smith added. Some are obvious, like the zombie attacks and the Bennett sisters being well trained in the deadly arts of killing "unmentionables" but there are other parts like illusions to how Mr. Darcy's trousers cling to his "most English parts" and stuff about the mother vomitting a lot. I'm neither a Jane Austin fan nor a Zombie fan but I did enjoy reading this book. I'm glad I'm finished now because I have so many new books to read! When we had our last Memoir meeting with Freddy Words we went to Chapters for it and I bought a LOT of books, all but one were on sale and all but one are intended for my eventual classroom but I'd like to read them first. I got two box sets of classics, one book that combines graphic novel with regular text called Abadazad: The Road to Inconceivable by J.M. DeMatteis and Mike Ploog, and for myself I bought a new Charles DeLint book, meant for a teenage audience but it's part of his Newford books called The Blue Girl. It looks very interesting. So along with the editing book, the wedding book and a few others I'm in the midst of reading, I have a lot of reading to keep me occupied.
Tony found this really interesting version of a song he really likes that I'd like to share. It's Smashing Pumpkins's "Bullet with Butterfly Wings", sung by Frida Snell. She kind of reminds me of Tori Amos but I think it's mostly because she plays piano.
www.youtube.com/watch
I'm going to go try to make some soup and maybe do some more reading.
There still aren't any jobs for me to apply for.
I'm thinking about going for some day care jobs this year if I don't get anything else this September. I love teaching so much but not knowing one month to the next how much money I'm going to be making and how much I'm going to be working is really getting to me and it's hard on our budget. I like day care. I enjoy working with babies. I'd be making less money per day but it would be steady work so I think it might be worth it. I'm still hoping that they're going to post a bunch of jobs tomorrow. Teachers go back to school tomorrow. Maybe administrators will realize that they're short on staff and post lots of jobs. I can hope.
I just finished reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies today. I've been reading it pretty slowly because the orignial Jane Austin parts are sometimes hard to read. I would like to re-read the original again though to find out what parts Seth Grahame-Smith added. Some are obvious, like the zombie attacks and the Bennett sisters being well trained in the deadly arts of killing "unmentionables" but there are other parts like illusions to how Mr. Darcy's trousers cling to his "most English parts" and stuff about the mother vomitting a lot. I'm neither a Jane Austin fan nor a Zombie fan but I did enjoy reading this book. I'm glad I'm finished now because I have so many new books to read! When we had our last Memoir meeting with Freddy Words we went to Chapters for it and I bought a LOT of books, all but one were on sale and all but one are intended for my eventual classroom but I'd like to read them first. I got two box sets of classics, one book that combines graphic novel with regular text called Abadazad: The Road to Inconceivable by J.M. DeMatteis and Mike Ploog, and for myself I bought a new Charles DeLint book, meant for a teenage audience but it's part of his Newford books called The Blue Girl. It looks very interesting. So along with the editing book, the wedding book and a few others I'm in the midst of reading, I have a lot of reading to keep me occupied.
Tony found this really interesting version of a song he really likes that I'd like to share. It's Smashing Pumpkins's "Bullet with Butterfly Wings", sung by Frida Snell. She kind of reminds me of Tori Amos but I think it's mostly because she plays piano.
www.youtube.com/watch
I'm going to go try to make some soup and maybe do some more reading.