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Mum’s the word for now, but I’ll have details for you very soon, I promise.

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Ahh….back to work tomorrow.  I really, really don’t want to go back, especially to the kindy.

I didn’t ever get dressed today, and we’ve watched hours and hours of Battlestar Galactica (8 episodes, I think?).  So, what have you done today?

This is all I’ve got tonight, folks:

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Despite a much better work schedule, I’m still beat tonight. I need to sleep or my throat will never forgive me.

Mmm….a Sunday without the dread of Kindy on Monday morning.  We slept late, we puttered, I did some laundry and cleaned up the house, listened to an entire audiobook, and I’ve even knit a good chunk on Lexi’s wedding afghan (oh, it’s pretty).

Seth and I talked to Caleb again some last night, and I think I may start the resume polishing tomorrow morning while I’m not working (woo!).  He thinks the place he’s working might be hiring, and I think I’m probably qualified. He seems to like the place lots, and says the workload isn’t completely insane. It might be nice to have a relatively sane work schedule, for a change.

In the mean time, I’m going back to knitting, and I think I’ll be staying up later than I normally would.    Mmm…..no work tomorrow until 1:30or so!

So, tomorrow is the last day of kindy for a while.  We’re taking next week off at management’s suggestion, and then Chinese New Year begins the following Wednesday, so we’re lumping that Monday and Tuesday in with the week off.  We’re both really looking foward to some time to sleep and get over the lingering illnesses we’ve both been dealing with.  Also, I’m thinking I might try to knit a bit.

In the meantime, we made a mad-dash run to Costco tonight after classes.  Seth wanted to pick up some Jelly Bellys for his kindy and I wanted to replenish our supply of flour tortillas.  Oh! The flour tortillas? They are fantastic.  With scrambled eggs and the pesto I’ve mentioned before, they make a quick and easy supper.  They only appeared in the last few weeks, I think, and I’m glad they’re here now.  I’d missed them.  Oooo, maybe this weekend we can run down to Taoyuan to get some more beans and then have burritos.  Come to think of it, we probably really need to do that anyway soon, since I promised Kate some Mexican eats while she was here visiting over the holiday.

Mmmm….time off with Mexican and margaritas….I can’t wait.

blah blah blah hacking cough blah blah blah working too many hours blah blah blah watching Battlestar Galactica blah blah blah you’ve read it all before

Actual content tomorow? Maybe.

I’m think I’m a bit burnt out currently.  You can see it here on the blog - the quality of my posts has been spotty, at best.  I don’t think it’s blog burnout, though.  I’m pretty sure this is work-related.

We’re not working kindy next week. Maybe I’ll find the energy to post something of substance then.

My life is too boring to write about today. I went to work, I worked for over 12 hours, got paid for 6.5 of them, blah blah blah. I came home and our friend Alison was here for tech support, so we been chatted up a storm (shop talk, of course, as it so often tends to be), and I’ve done no knitting (boo). But, time with real people is better than time with yarn, as long as the people are good ones (she is, so no worries), so it’s all good.

I’m just about ready to fall asleep now. I may not actually be able to fall asleep, since I’ve got this hacking cough that won’t leave, and all sorts of sinus drip fun, and sheesh, I think this job (or more specifically, the hours) are killing me. I hope our potential schedule changes work out or I get used to it, because as it is now, something’s got to give, and that something so far, as been my health.

I like my health. I really sort of miss it. I hope it comes home soon. I suppose going to sleep earlier than midnight might help that some. That’ll happen one of these days, I’m sure. I’ll keep on trying to make it happen, at any rate.

So, yeah.  It’s Tuesday.  My plan day.  We have kindy in the morning, and then I don’t have a class until 4:30, so I use the time in between to plan my bushiban classes for the rest of the week, and do any grading or other paperwork I can. So, I planned, graded,  and edited a script before class.  Then there was class, of course, and after I stayed there and wrote communication books (on a Tuesday! so freakin’ early!), so that I’ll have time to write “Teacher’s Words of Wisdom” tomorrow.  We’ve been told that we can type them (”you can write them onna tha computer, make them all the same”), but I’m afraid it’ll still take some time.  I’ve got some “free time” that’s not really free between classes tomorrow afternoon, so I’m hoping to crank them out then.  Wish me luck, I guess.

In non-work related news, I finished another 9 rows on my scarf - woo! I’m up to row 40, so only 60-ish rows to go!  That means that if I can do about 10 rows a night for the next six nights, I’ll be finished knitting in less than a week!  Or, more realistically, if I can do about 10 rows a night every few nights here and there for the next few weeks, I’ll be finished knitting it before the end of February! Woo! Go me!

So, we had our big year-end banquet today. You know, where the company spends a lot of money to show how successful we are (nevermind that we can’t get a new, working, cd player in my treehouse class because “it’s so close to the end of the semester”).  The food at the banquet wasn’t really to my liking, but the beer was. Oh, and Seth won $1000! Woo! Cheers, right?

Kindergarten is going to come too early tomorrow morning, I fear.