Not really worth reading
Dec. 20th, 2004 06:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jdmkleini haven't heard from Master since Thursday, then it was an email to say He'd landed safely and gotten to Angelo with no trouble. i know He's got a lot to do packed in a short time to do it in. i do miss Him, although i can't help feeling just a bit forgotten.
Sarah is still having seizures. Not so often, but the new med apparently isn't doing the complete trick.
Talked with Pat last night. Had a good talk about the care and training of puppies. Cheese seems to be a real love of a pup.
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jdmklein48/detail?.dir=Mail+Attachments&.dnm=e8bd.jpg&.src=ph
In my book that qualifies for 'cute pet picture of the month.'
The weather is unseasonably cold. i've mentioned it before and will probably talk about it again. i can't remember having to use the furnace as early and as often as this year. Last December we were still able to go around in shirt-sleeves. This year i have my wool winter coat out and yesterday was scrambling to find my gloves.
Not a pretty sunrise this morning. i wonder what that indicates.
The throat is still half scratchy. i wonder if it will be like this until the end of the weather. It's not bad enough to need medicine. Gargling with warm salt water eases the irritation. i just know it's there.
Max and i stood out on the balcony and surveyed his world this morning. i am constantly amazed at the things that catch his eye. He spied a pigeon flying, and tracked a boat out of the marina. He watches the cars go by on the street below.
i met a man yesterday who teaches at the Public Authority for Applied Education and Training, the nursing college is under its auspicies. i told him i was thinking about not teaching there next semester. He said he'd taught there last year and didn't go back. i'm glad i'm not the only one.
Still debating about just how to handle the meeting with Amal tomorrow. While i am, in theory, getting more money than i expected from this course, i am not being paid for one day when she specifically told me i had to be there, nor am i being paid for proctoring the final exam. She told K that the exam was part of our duties. If it's such a part of the duties, why isn't there pay for it? i am pretty firmly convinced i won't be teaching there next semester, on the one hand. On the other, i don't want to burn any bridges beyond repair. My concern is that if i raise a stink about this my pay may be held up indefinitely, just for spite. i'm considering talking to the Dean over there, but don't know if that would be considered not following the chain of command. i'm inclined to just say forget the whole thing and write it off as a bad lesson learned. But it is fast becoming a matter of principle. i can't help but think i should have applied for Amal's position. i know i could do a better job, simply because i have a longer concentration span. The one semester there provides me with yet another reason to avoid health care in this country.
Still trying to figure out winter break. Sort of wish the cousin in Germany would extend an invite, that would be an easy place to go. In my mind i would like a hideaway retreat sort of vacation. This wouldn't be good for me, i know it, but i want it. i am becoming more and more hermit like. Pretty soon, no invitations will be extended to me for social activities. i don't know how to break this habit/fear/fetish/phobia whatever it is. Actually i do, i just don't care enough to bring myself to do it.
Well, now that i have pretty much written a dreary down spirited journal enntry, i think i shall go get ready for work.
Sarah is still having seizures. Not so often, but the new med apparently isn't doing the complete trick.
Talked with Pat last night. Had a good talk about the care and training of puppies. Cheese seems to be a real love of a pup.
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jdmklein48/detail?.dir=Mail+Attachments&.dnm=e8bd.jpg&.src=ph
In my book that qualifies for 'cute pet picture of the month.'
The weather is unseasonably cold. i've mentioned it before and will probably talk about it again. i can't remember having to use the furnace as early and as often as this year. Last December we were still able to go around in shirt-sleeves. This year i have my wool winter coat out and yesterday was scrambling to find my gloves.
Not a pretty sunrise this morning. i wonder what that indicates.
The throat is still half scratchy. i wonder if it will be like this until the end of the weather. It's not bad enough to need medicine. Gargling with warm salt water eases the irritation. i just know it's there.
Max and i stood out on the balcony and surveyed his world this morning. i am constantly amazed at the things that catch his eye. He spied a pigeon flying, and tracked a boat out of the marina. He watches the cars go by on the street below.
i met a man yesterday who teaches at the Public Authority for Applied Education and Training, the nursing college is under its auspicies. i told him i was thinking about not teaching there next semester. He said he'd taught there last year and didn't go back. i'm glad i'm not the only one.
Still debating about just how to handle the meeting with Amal tomorrow. While i am, in theory, getting more money than i expected from this course, i am not being paid for one day when she specifically told me i had to be there, nor am i being paid for proctoring the final exam. She told K that the exam was part of our duties. If it's such a part of the duties, why isn't there pay for it? i am pretty firmly convinced i won't be teaching there next semester, on the one hand. On the other, i don't want to burn any bridges beyond repair. My concern is that if i raise a stink about this my pay may be held up indefinitely, just for spite. i'm considering talking to the Dean over there, but don't know if that would be considered not following the chain of command. i'm inclined to just say forget the whole thing and write it off as a bad lesson learned. But it is fast becoming a matter of principle. i can't help but think i should have applied for Amal's position. i know i could do a better job, simply because i have a longer concentration span. The one semester there provides me with yet another reason to avoid health care in this country.
Still trying to figure out winter break. Sort of wish the cousin in Germany would extend an invite, that would be an easy place to go. In my mind i would like a hideaway retreat sort of vacation. This wouldn't be good for me, i know it, but i want it. i am becoming more and more hermit like. Pretty soon, no invitations will be extended to me for social activities. i don't know how to break this habit/fear/fetish/phobia whatever it is. Actually i do, i just don't care enough to bring myself to do it.
Well, now that i have pretty much written a dreary down spirited journal enntry, i think i shall go get ready for work.
