Morning update
Dec. 14th, 2006 09:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eveglassToday's breadcrumb is about gossip.
I'm somewhat miffed this morning, and for no good reason. Yesterday was quite nice, featuring a good class, tea with Marc, Ian-cooking, and gaming. Admittedly, the game didn't go in the direction I was expecting (my plans got tossed out a twentieth-story window, but that's what I get for doing out-of-game planning), but that shouldn't be enough to put me in a bad mood this morning.
I woke up late... again. Or, rather, I woke up on time but pressed the snooze button for an hour and a half. Stupid snooze button. Stupid lack of willpower before I'm properly woken up.
I still need to plan the lesson I'm teaching today. This is, of course, not a new situation. I've gotten used to the "I've got two hours to plan a lesson" episode that happens around this time every day. On the other hand, I really wish I had a textbook to work from. I'm not good with the whole "teach whatever you want" instructions I was given by my supervisor.
Maybe I'm miffed that the stuff I had planned for this weekend might not be happening. So far, I've gotten four or five people saying they'll be coming to my Channukah party, which isn't all that many. And the bardic circle that was supposed to happen on Sunday has fallen through, because I'm apparently the only person who RSVPed. Le sigh.
Or maybe I'm annoyed at that perennial issue, money. Yes, the contract I'm working now gives me enough money to maintain my standard of living, even if it doesn't really allow me to save anything. Yes, I should be getting more work in January... I hope. But I was considering my SCA calendar of events for the next few months, and pondering on Pennsic, and I'm not sure I'll have enough money to do either. Pennsic, I'm going to try to pull off, come hell or high water. I don't have the money for it now, but with luck I'll have it by July / August. Of course, I'll hopefully be working a contract then that allows me to take off the two weeks.
Further on the money issue, it should come as no surprise to people who know my anal-retentive nature that I have been tracking my finances for the last six years. I use Quicken, which allows me to see at a glance not only how much money I spent, but in what categories I've spent it. It frustrates me that, since the beginning of November, I've spent almost 800 dollars and have nothing tangible to show for it. About 40% was spent on food, another 32% on bus passes and gas (about a fifth of that was spent going to Toronto and back), and 11% on the monthly dojo fees for karate. The remaining 15% (about $120) was spent on drinks, bank charges, SCA practices, a video rental, and (the only thing remotely tangible) an ink cartridge, which I will have to replace in a few weeks. I have nothing I can hold and say, "I bought this. This is where my money went." No books, no DVDs, no teddy bears, no clothes, nothing. And yet I've somehow managed to spend $800. $18 a day on services that are quickly used up! And this is while I'm living with my mom! The situation frustrates me, moreso because it's fairly typical of my spending for the last few years.
I'm also annoyed at the (lack of) progress in the cegep domain. I really need to follow-up with the people at Vanier and John Abbott, but the stuff I've heard from the professors at Dawson is not encouraging. I'm not on the short-list, for either humanities or history. I have no PhD, and no experience. Apparently, there are ample people who have at least one of these two elusive traits. My plan for the two weeks I have off over Christmas is to work on lesson plans for humanities, which I've been told might give me a leg-up. But it's discouraging, because I can't get experience without already having experience. Stupid catch-22. Why don't they just give me a chance to teach, damnit!
Anyway. I really should start lesson planning. Sorry if I've brought any of you down by this. The brain-dump needed to happen. TTFN.
I'm somewhat miffed this morning, and for no good reason. Yesterday was quite nice, featuring a good class, tea with Marc, Ian-cooking, and gaming. Admittedly, the game didn't go in the direction I was expecting (my plans got tossed out a twentieth-story window, but that's what I get for doing out-of-game planning), but that shouldn't be enough to put me in a bad mood this morning.
I woke up late... again. Or, rather, I woke up on time but pressed the snooze button for an hour and a half. Stupid snooze button. Stupid lack of willpower before I'm properly woken up.
I still need to plan the lesson I'm teaching today. This is, of course, not a new situation. I've gotten used to the "I've got two hours to plan a lesson" episode that happens around this time every day. On the other hand, I really wish I had a textbook to work from. I'm not good with the whole "teach whatever you want" instructions I was given by my supervisor.
Maybe I'm miffed that the stuff I had planned for this weekend might not be happening. So far, I've gotten four or five people saying they'll be coming to my Channukah party, which isn't all that many. And the bardic circle that was supposed to happen on Sunday has fallen through, because I'm apparently the only person who RSVPed. Le sigh.
Or maybe I'm annoyed at that perennial issue, money. Yes, the contract I'm working now gives me enough money to maintain my standard of living, even if it doesn't really allow me to save anything. Yes, I should be getting more work in January... I hope. But I was considering my SCA calendar of events for the next few months, and pondering on Pennsic, and I'm not sure I'll have enough money to do either. Pennsic, I'm going to try to pull off, come hell or high water. I don't have the money for it now, but with luck I'll have it by July / August. Of course, I'll hopefully be working a contract then that allows me to take off the two weeks.
Further on the money issue, it should come as no surprise to people who know my anal-retentive nature that I have been tracking my finances for the last six years. I use Quicken, which allows me to see at a glance not only how much money I spent, but in what categories I've spent it. It frustrates me that, since the beginning of November, I've spent almost 800 dollars and have nothing tangible to show for it. About 40% was spent on food, another 32% on bus passes and gas (about a fifth of that was spent going to Toronto and back), and 11% on the monthly dojo fees for karate. The remaining 15% (about $120) was spent on drinks, bank charges, SCA practices, a video rental, and (the only thing remotely tangible) an ink cartridge, which I will have to replace in a few weeks. I have nothing I can hold and say, "I bought this. This is where my money went." No books, no DVDs, no teddy bears, no clothes, nothing. And yet I've somehow managed to spend $800. $18 a day on services that are quickly used up! And this is while I'm living with my mom! The situation frustrates me, moreso because it's fairly typical of my spending for the last few years.
I'm also annoyed at the (lack of) progress in the cegep domain. I really need to follow-up with the people at Vanier and John Abbott, but the stuff I've heard from the professors at Dawson is not encouraging. I'm not on the short-list, for either humanities or history. I have no PhD, and no experience. Apparently, there are ample people who have at least one of these two elusive traits. My plan for the two weeks I have off over Christmas is to work on lesson plans for humanities, which I've been told might give me a leg-up. But it's discouraging, because I can't get experience without already having experience. Stupid catch-22. Why don't they just give me a chance to teach, damnit!
Anyway. I really should start lesson planning. Sorry if I've brought any of you down by this. The brain-dump needed to happen. TTFN.
