Chris and Ash's Wedding Day!

It's finally here!
Got my outfit picked out... my cat is laying on it though *ponder* gray hair on cream clothes... *sigh* ah well... it's the price I pay for having my snuggly wuggly kitty with me! (and it's SO worth it).

Very exciting day... *sniffle* I promise not to cry!
I'm videotaping their wedding... kind of a big responsibility. They have a professional photographer, but they asked if I'd video it just for kicks...

I just woke up at 10am and I'm not fully awake yet. I was just SO tired... working lots... though I have both today and tomorrow off = exciting.

Yesterday I got some potentially good news... I'll share when it's for sure.

Uhmm.... yeah... gonna go read a book until it's time to go.

(Aya is getting married in Oct.)

Working 5:30am - 11:30pm

That's a long day...

/sigh

So tired...

I had to get a girl from the dorms and take her to the airport at 5:30am yesterday. I continued to transport people off and on all day long... I was already in my pj's and reading my book when I got a call asking me to pick someone up at the airport at 10:30pm... and of course the plane was late. It was 11:30pm by the time I was done.

I was going to come in to work at 8am today... but I decided to sleep in so I wouldn't be a zombie. Got to work at 9am, but still look and feel exhausted.

In other news... teaching is going well. I struggled with a couple of students during the second week, but things went better after I told them they couldn't sit with each other (though they were thoroughly ticked about it - I'm soooo mean). Overall the students seem interested (some more than others of course). I gave them their first quiz last week and they all did reallllly well. I'm so proud.

Working in the lab and for the Ed Dept is same as always... slow periods and insanely busy periods...

And this weekend two of my best friends are getting married... He got a job down by the cities, which means they'll both be leaving right after they get married. This makes me sad... :( I'm happy for them, but sad to see them go.

Been reading whenever I can. Finished His Dark Materials, re-read the first four Artemis Fowls and now I'm reading the newest one, next on my list is Garth Nix's Keys to the Kingdom... then the last two HP's in preparation for the next (and final) in the series. After that... I dunno... Something new? I have a big stack of books I want to go through this summer, I just started with my YA series because I had two new books to read and wanted to refresh my memory on the rest...

Mama Mia

If you want to live to be insanely old... you should move to the island
of Kyushu in Japan...

In other news...

I'm really enjoying teaching for Upward Bound. Most of my students seem to be really excited about learning the language and it's something that I really enjoy doing. I have had some complaints that I don't speak while signing... *blink*....

Nope... I don't use my voice when using American Sign Language. ASL is a separate language, not just signed English, so it wouldn't be terribly accurate if I did say everything I was signing. Besides, immersion is a common way to teach languages. It's the way I was taught ASL... and I do use my voice for clarifications or first-time instructions.

So grumble all you want. My class. My rules. No talkie talkie!

Push-E

Holy freaking cow!

I just got a call from my Mom saying I got a new credit card in the mail (in Texas)... it's a card I forgot I even had... not good... but in any case she gave me the info and I called to cancel it. I was the epitome of patience, but good grief... PUSHY...

The automated thing notified me that my call would be recorded...

Account guy: Oh please don't say that... Please... We can... blah blah blah

Me: No - no - no - no - no - no - no thank you - no - nope - nopers - nosky - N O

Account guy: But we can......

Me: No - no - no - no - no - no - no thank you - no - nope - nopers - nosky - N O

Finally...

Account guy: Ok well I will close your account, blah blah blah Was your call courteous and helpful today?

Me: Yes. Just way too much pushing me to keep a card that I've already decided I wanted to cancel.

Account guy: I'm sorry, but I really hate to lose you as a customer blah blah blah...

The end.

If I ever thought I might want to re-open an account with that company in the future... This has convinced me otherwise.

Geeze.

Humidity...

TX = 69%
MN = 78%

It's raining in both places... though TX seems to be getting drenched and we have scattered rain.

But UGH!

I moved away from TX because I hated the hot weather, the humidity... and the first few years I lived here in MN we had dry summers... I loved it. Now I'm about to melt.

*whimper*

Reason 274.3b

There are many reasons I love Get Fuzzy...

The magic's in the music...

and the music's in me...

do be do be do

I found 98.7 KLUV online! Yay! I can listen to my oldies again!
/cheer

That certainly makes my workday more enjoyable!

Board of Teaching stuff is taking up most of my work time... I even work through lunch - sandwich in one hand and clicking away on the mouse/keyboard with the other hand.

Another Rummage Sale tomorrow... sposed to be much nicer weather, so hopefully we'll get rid of all that STUFF!

Start teaching next week... eeeee! Need to make up a test to see what they already know.

Almost done with His Dark Materials trilogy by Phillip Pullman (halfway through the last book). Started the series last summer, but never had time to finish it.

Survived the busy weekend

Working full-time from now on.

Lots of paperwork - checking bookmarks and hyperlinks - staring at a computer screen.
Good thing I like that sort of thing.
Sometimes I get to work with people too - I enjoy that as well.

Hope all is well with you.