A real update at last!
I'm still shamelessly plugging because I'm really proud of my cafepress store. I've just put up a whole bunch of new designs, including some pretty funny ones. But other than that I'm doing pretty well. I have a barbecue to go to tonight, and tomorrow or Sunday I'll go visit my parents. It's father's day this week, and while I'd love to get dad something I've no earthly IDEA what.
I really should start working on the things I need to work on this summer, namely my ISP from January and my thesis. But I've felt like slacking a lot. I've been crocheting hats lately, and believe me, the looks I got when I was crocheting while visiting gran in hospital were priceless. One nurse asked me if there was a baby on the way. Fat chance. The hats are because they're neat and I have no hats, and because I look like I have a hedgehog on my head. That's probably not going to fly at work, so I'll crochet at least one that looks nice enough that I can get away with wearing it at work.
Speaking of work, my boss at the school fine arts center emailed me and asked me to work, which is great. I didn't expect him to, because he said there was a very slim chance he might have the money in the budget to pay me since they weren't allowing him a student position over the summer. So I e-mailed him back and said "Great, I'd love to work, here's my schedule restrictions" (which consisted of two times when I would be teaching tai chi classes, in the evenings and spaced well apart). Well, he chewed me out. I'm still not sure for what. He said it wasn't up to me to determine my own schedule and he worked hard seven days a week to keep Sainer open, and couldn't keep changing the schedule for me. So I wrote him back another e-mail saying essentially, I'd love to be able to keep a totally open schedule so I could work anytime he needed me at the drop of a hat, but he himself told me he probably couldn't hire me over the summer and I should look for alternate employment. His next e-mail was apologetic in tone and essentially we hashed out a way I could work the hours he needed. My tai chi students would have been fine with rescheduling the class but that wasn't the point. I can't believe he thought he had grounds to be angry at me.
I need to call the Cabalistic Chef and see if he has a catering job for me, because the extra money would be favorite about now. I'm getting cash for the tai chi classes, but that's mostly going to food and incidentals (incidental being a code word for yarn for crocheting, sunglasses for being able to go outside without stabbing my eyes out with pencils, and friends want to eat out and I must do something social NOW). The tai chi classes are fun. My students are all elementary school teachers, one my ex-mom (mom of an ex with whom I get along almost as well as I still get on with the ex), the others all just as strange and interesting. I really enjoy their company and we spend a lot of time after the lesson just jawing about things. They pick things up really quickly, too.
Landlord put in a new fan in the living room while he was replacing the exploded dishwasher. His electrician's assistant wired it up and installed it. It has one of the oddest features imaginable-- a three way bulb. But that's not what's so odd about it, although I've never seen the point in a three-way bulbon a ceiling fan. The odd thing is that the fan speed and brightness of the bulb seem to be linked. Turn the fan on-- it doesn't go unless the light is on. The light is just as bright as the speed the fan is going. If you ask me, it's crosswired all to hell. I mentioned that to the kid installing it and he said there was no way it could be crosswired, since there were only two wires in it. He couldn't have been that dumb.
Riiiiight.
We'll probably just take the bulb out.
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