Substitute
Sep. 28th, 2008 10:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annundrielIt looks like this substitute teaching thing is actually going to happen.
Wednesday the secretary at the middle school called me to get me set up with the online program so that I can start being called at 0'dark thirty in the morning. Friday I got woken up by my phone ringing at six. I picked up just as it stopped and ended up with a voice mail of the automated system. An hour and a half later, I got a call from the middle school secretary again telling me that there was a position open to be filled and was I available. Unfortunately, I was already subbing at the library in Mattawa.
On the one hand, I'm a little relieved that I can hold off that first time a little longer. But on the other, I feel kind of bad that first call out of the gate I have to refuse. Oh well.
I'm going to have to work harder at settling my brain down at night now, though. If they're going to call me the morning of with no warning previously, who knows when I'll need my sleep.
What freaks me out the most? I'll be telling kids to call me Miss [insert last name here]. WEIRD.
Meanwhile, the library was interesting last week. Turns out I could have stayed another day in Spokane since the regular librarian forgot she had asked me to sub. When I got there in the morning, the other sub was there. And, fortunately or unfortunately depending on how you look at it, I'm the one that ended up working. The only unfortunate thing really being that I was there and not doing things that a) I needed to get done or b) I wanted to do. Otherwise, though, it was a win. Basically, I'm the nice substitute.
Then it turned out that instead of just working Friday in Mattawa, I was expected to work Thursday as well. Which was annoying because I'd made plans, but otherwise okay. Except that I get frustrated in that library because it is...less than orderly. However, something good came out of that. The first weekend I went to Spokane, Neesha introduced me to her friend Nicole who would moving out to the Mattawa area. Thursday she came in to get a library card. So Friday we went out to dinner after work. It was fun. Yum, enchiladas.
And now who knows what this week will bring? Besides a hair cut, a morning in court, a trip to Seattle with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sdrohc_ratiug, and Neil Gaiman. Woo!
Wednesday the secretary at the middle school called me to get me set up with the online program so that I can start being called at 0'dark thirty in the morning. Friday I got woken up by my phone ringing at six. I picked up just as it stopped and ended up with a voice mail of the automated system. An hour and a half later, I got a call from the middle school secretary again telling me that there was a position open to be filled and was I available. Unfortunately, I was already subbing at the library in Mattawa.
On the one hand, I'm a little relieved that I can hold off that first time a little longer. But on the other, I feel kind of bad that first call out of the gate I have to refuse. Oh well.
I'm going to have to work harder at settling my brain down at night now, though. If they're going to call me the morning of with no warning previously, who knows when I'll need my sleep.
What freaks me out the most? I'll be telling kids to call me Miss [insert last name here]. WEIRD.
Meanwhile, the library was interesting last week. Turns out I could have stayed another day in Spokane since the regular librarian forgot she had asked me to sub. When I got there in the morning, the other sub was there. And, fortunately or unfortunately depending on how you look at it, I'm the one that ended up working. The only unfortunate thing really being that I was there and not doing things that a) I needed to get done or b) I wanted to do. Otherwise, though, it was a win. Basically, I'm the nice substitute.
Then it turned out that instead of just working Friday in Mattawa, I was expected to work Thursday as well. Which was annoying because I'd made plans, but otherwise okay. Except that I get frustrated in that library because it is...less than orderly. However, something good came out of that. The first weekend I went to Spokane, Neesha introduced me to her friend Nicole who would moving out to the Mattawa area. Thursday she came in to get a library card. So Friday we went out to dinner after work. It was fun. Yum, enchiladas.
And now who knows what this week will bring? Besides a hair cut, a morning in court, a trip to Seattle with
sdrohc_ratiug, and Neil Gaiman. Woo!