Got a New One!

So, as I turned my head to look over my shoulder while merging onto the freeway on my way home, I broke my left cheekbone! Yes, I've had broken cheekbones before, but never 'caused' by looking over my shoulder -- it's a new experience! Wheeee!! 

And, FYI, it was healed up enough by the time I got home that I was able to eat a small quesadilla...

And We're Off...

School starts tomorrow for the kiddos. Whew...

I am indeed at the same school, with the same commute. However, when I showed up last Wednesday, my principal called me into her office and said she had reassigned me -- again -- and hoped I would be okay with the challenging new job she had in mind for me. Long story short, I am finally classified as a Social Studies teacher within the district, which is my primary certification with the state, but the hardest department to break into in Anchorage. And the challenging part? I will have a block class set up for two periods in a row with our school's eleven English Language Learners -- what used to be called ESL/English as a Second Language students. I will be their English and Social Studies teacher, and can flex the lessons each day in whichever direction I feel is helping them the most. I'm very excited and a bit scared all at the same time! 

So as long as the body holds up, the mind should be very happy!

Ugh...

I've been holding my breath while applying for every job I qualify for, and still nothing. Teachers report tomorrow. It looks like I will be doing the commute again this year... at least until I can't take it any more. Hoo-boy...

Sorry, can't find any humor in this one.

A rough one...

Last night/this morning at some point I was awakened by one of those machines that takes a flat strip of metal and twists it so that it ends up twirled, like an oil dipstick, except that it was doing it to my body. Then this morning, I had trouble sitting forward in a car -- I was still twisted. Yes, you may take that any way you like to...

Creative Solutions...

My big toe exploded an hour ago, so I did the best I could -- I took a nap. Woke up, the toe is fine. Now if only all of life's problems could be solved with 45 minute naps!

Onward and... um...

It's been a very interesting week-plus. Lots of aches and pains, many of them real. My best friend and I loaded over 5,000 pounds of broken up concrete sidewalk into his trailer, and then unloaded it at the dump. His wife has been out of state for two weeks now, so I have been helping with the kids even more than usual, which does tax the body. And my summer job started two weeks ago, teaching musical theatre dance to 5-17 year olds. So, yeah, I'm beating up a body that doesn't need help hurting.

However -- Getting through it okay. I am so used to hurting that it's really not so different. Now if I could just get one of those clear booths filled with little balls to sleep in so that I could find any position supported...

Really gross one today...

If you want to know what it was, ask -- otherwise I would not want to subject anyone to accidentally reading about it! But it disappeared for most of the day, that's the good news...