Went to Austin this week to do some apartment pre-hunting.  No idea what'll be available in April when it's time to sign a lease, of course, but as I won't have a day off until Easter, and that's only one day, it was "go shopping this week" or "let the locator place me sight unseen."  This is the part where I start to get nervous about the ( Read more... )

     ...and this is probably the last stretch of time where this will really be "home."  I am back in Longview for only six weeks; my job interview was on Thursday and went very well.  I start the four-month training school back in Little Rock on January 18.  After that, I will be hired as a Tax Examination Technician or Service Center Collections ( Read more... )

 So this is the second week of my evaluation/intro period, and they keep running out of things for me to do.  This week I've got three self-study periods, in which I'm supposed to work on preparing for interview questions, produce a two-minute presentation about myself, etc.  Next week I'll likely have more of them, because out of the five sections ( Read more... )

Got the list of places currently looking for the position I'm going to train to do.  It was emphasized that some of these jobs may have been filled by the time I graduate in march, but that by the same token new locations will open up.  Right now, my choices are ( Read more... )

     Okay, so I ended up finishing the New Frontier omnibus in about five days.  I liked the story a lot, but I don't believe I'm going to continue with them because this is, without a doubt, the worst e-book conversion I have ever seen.  Every set of parentheses is reversed, no one has bothered to remove hyphens to account for e-readers' dynamic ( Read more... )

So I haven't had a lot to say for a very long time. Substituting when I can get work, reading buckets of books, playing videogames and doing job applications. No social opportunities, no anything really. Yesterday, I finally had a meeting with my new caseworker for the Division of Assistive and Rehab Services (what I still think of as the Texas ( Read more... )

So it's been almost a month since I posted anything here, and longer than that since I had something substantive to say. There's a reason for that: reading slowed down for a while and it's mostly been job applications and video games. And my gaming attention span has been pretty short--a lot of video pinball and old arcade titles, not many modern ( Read more... )

     Good news: things went better today than I could've hoped, and the principal of WOMS remembered me from when he taught junior high at Pine Tree.  (I wasn't in his class, but everyone knew Coach Hinkle ( Read more... )

     First day substituting went okay.  I'm still not terribly comfortable teaching 11- and 12-year-olds (I had a sixth grade reading class), but that's more due to issues of pedagogy and lesson structure.  The kids were INCREDIBLY well-behaved, and the lesson was pretty easy (we went through the first two chapters of Hatchet, reading round-robin ( Read more... )

    I've never been big on making long lists of goals or resolutions, but know I need to.  So this is kind of a first attempt.  It only covers the next three months (that is, until schools come into session in the fall), so it's not hugely long term.  The explanations for each goal are in italics.  I've kind of loosely grouped them, but they're not ( Read more... )