Well, only sort of. It was my first day back at work, but that’s for a 2-day workshop on the right way to do the reading program we do. When I arrived at school, the first thing I noticed was the graffiti on the portables that apparently was supposed to welcome us back. Mine had a star with something inside. My neighbor had 666 but also 999. Is that 150% evil or something? He seems like such a nice guy, too!
I dropped some stuff off in my classroom and headed toward the building, where the principal and one of the assistant principals were greeting people. That was nice! Then onto the looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong workshop.
At lunch time I checked my phone for messages. I’d called Human Resources again on Friday about my contract. So the lady was returning my call. She thought she had already done my contract but she checked to make sure … and there was no record of it!!! So she was doing it this afternoon. I left a message that at this point the best way to get it to me would be through school mail. So if I hadn’t called her????
Then tonight at six I got my expected phone call from my admissions person at the U of Phoenix, and she walked me through everything for tomorrow’s start. It had to wait until today because the classroom itself wasn’t opened until today. I’m excited, even though there’s a ton of work ahead of me! And I like this a whole lot better than when I was trying to do LeMoyne grad classes one class at a time after working all day, on the lifetime plan.
I found my hard-cover book 2 of Harry Potter (note to Donna: You’ll never guess where it was!). I had started it (again) before I left for Wisconsin, but put it away and couldn’t find it, so I was reading the paperback copy. So I went out back and sat on the patio reading, when something moving caught my eye. Somehow I don’t think I saw one at all last summer, but here it was today, up close and personal: One of those huge bugs we get here. Huge. Spread your thumb and pinky. That’s how long it is. Big fat black body and not counting things like antenna the body itself is like two inches high (partially due to the length of the legs). You’d be impressed how quickly I managed to get back into the house!
