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Elves, Jobs, Iceland
You know how I wrote about how possibly the best job ever is deciding whether Elves live in the hills and are angry at construction workers? Well, I was reading the entry on At the Intersection of Fiction and Reality (which you can see on my blog roll) and he is pointing out this article angry Elves that have hopefully been appeased by song.
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Guerrilla Writing
So, someone asked me the other day about my productivity level. Then they said, “Well, you’re young, that helps.” I half-jokingly responded with, “No, I have insomnia, that helps.” They laughed. I laughed. We laughed. Laughter is good. But I thought I would take a minute to actually write out how I go about my life for people. The first thing to know is that only two things will get me up in the morning: teaching (happily) and emergencies (not-so-happily). Therefore, my schedule is a little weird to most people. I’ll write out an average day with not teaching and one with teaching. Average Day Without Teaching: Get up @…
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Job stuff
So, recently I haven’t been writing or editing much. Well, except for good-bye letters to my kids. I haven’t even been reading much. You see, I, like so many others in this country, have lost my job. I will not be back teaching at the school that I have put my heart and soul into for two years. It doesn’t matter that I worked with 5 clubs (for free). It doesn’t matter that I’m certified in my subjects and passed all of the state tests. All that matters is that next year I will be on step 3 (that means that I will have been teaching 3 years) and that…