More positive sort of update
All right, Tim has a job! Not a great job, but a j-o-b nonetheless. (Pending him passing the drug test & background check, which there's no reason he shouldn't pass those.) He'll be working at Target from 4am-12:30pm. Not the most awesome shift, but it won't conflict with my class schedule and it's full time. He also gets a slightly higher starting wage since it starts during a night shift. So, hey, maybe we'll be all right for at least the immediate future. Worst case scenario, he hates it and just works it till he finds something better. Either way, two paychecks will make this family breathe a little easier since we still have the monthly rent + mortgage on that damn house to pay.
In other news, I still like UL. I'm caught up on my reading (which is just such an unfamiliar feeling for me) so far. I got my key stuck in my office door two weeks ago. I mean, STUCK. I had to go get the office assistant. She managed to get it out (she knew the part to push on the lock to get it to release--but it still took her a good 15 minutes), but she put in a call because the lock was obviously broken. So then I was afraid to use my office because I didn't want my key to get stuck again . . . Last week someone did come out and fix it (I was there, so I KNOW) so I'm no longer afraid of my office. This is good because I get a lot done there as it's such a drab, dungeony space that I'm not distracted by anything. I don't know if I'll decorate my area or not. So far I've just put a big box of composition and literature readers on the shelf by my desk because I don't have room for them at home or care if someone takes them.
I'm trying to get at least a little bit involved so folks know who I am. I've missed each of the Thursday night readings so far (they feature a one act play, then a featured grad student reader, then close with an open mic). Hopefully this Thursday I'll manage to show up. I'm helping out with the department booksale on Thursday afternoon, too. Yeah. I usually end up enjoying myself once I get myself to events, it's just the getting myself out to them that's difficult.
I have one painting done (a swamp mermaid, which goes with a poem) and have started work on a more complicated one. I sort of need to pick up the pace on that project if it's going to be what I picture.
Rook is still doing well at school. All of the work is review for him, since Tim had him starting on 2nd grade work by the beginning of summer. But, he does need the socialization. He'll probably have to start riding the bus since we only have the one car. The other solution would be Rook and I get up and go to drop Tim off by 4 and then come home and hope to get back to sleep until 7. . . yeah, I think it'll be best for Rook to have uninterrupted sleep and put up with the bus (there's a stop in our apartment parking lot, so it's not inconvinient.
I miss folks in K.C., especially since I feel like I should be planning a Halloween party. But, even if I knew enough people . . . there's no damn room in this tiny apartment! We don't even have room to put up most of our decorations (which, as those of you in KC know, are fucking awesome). I still miss having a dog, but I'm out of the weird obssessive stage.
Still waiting for them to fix our a/c so it's not around 90 in the apartment every afternoon (grr). It's not that the unit can't keep up, because when we walked by the neighbor's open door, we noticed it was quite cool in their place.
In other news, I still like UL. I'm caught up on my reading (which is just such an unfamiliar feeling for me) so far. I got my key stuck in my office door two weeks ago. I mean, STUCK. I had to go get the office assistant. She managed to get it out (she knew the part to push on the lock to get it to release--but it still took her a good 15 minutes), but she put in a call because the lock was obviously broken. So then I was afraid to use my office because I didn't want my key to get stuck again . . . Last week someone did come out and fix it (I was there, so I KNOW) so I'm no longer afraid of my office. This is good because I get a lot done there as it's such a drab, dungeony space that I'm not distracted by anything. I don't know if I'll decorate my area or not. So far I've just put a big box of composition and literature readers on the shelf by my desk because I don't have room for them at home or care if someone takes them.
I'm trying to get at least a little bit involved so folks know who I am. I've missed each of the Thursday night readings so far (they feature a one act play, then a featured grad student reader, then close with an open mic). Hopefully this Thursday I'll manage to show up. I'm helping out with the department booksale on Thursday afternoon, too. Yeah. I usually end up enjoying myself once I get myself to events, it's just the getting myself out to them that's difficult.
I have one painting done (a swamp mermaid, which goes with a poem) and have started work on a more complicated one. I sort of need to pick up the pace on that project if it's going to be what I picture.
Rook is still doing well at school. All of the work is review for him, since Tim had him starting on 2nd grade work by the beginning of summer. But, he does need the socialization. He'll probably have to start riding the bus since we only have the one car. The other solution would be Rook and I get up and go to drop Tim off by 4 and then come home and hope to get back to sleep until 7. . . yeah, I think it'll be best for Rook to have uninterrupted sleep and put up with the bus (there's a stop in our apartment parking lot, so it's not inconvinient.
I miss folks in K.C., especially since I feel like I should be planning a Halloween party. But, even if I knew enough people . . . there's no damn room in this tiny apartment! We don't even have room to put up most of our decorations (which, as those of you in KC know, are fucking awesome). I still miss having a dog, but I'm out of the weird obssessive stage.
Still waiting for them to fix our a/c so it's not around 90 in the apartment every afternoon (grr). It's not that the unit can't keep up, because when we walked by the neighbor's open door, we noticed it was quite cool in their place.