Well, no school again today, although the roads are rather clear - the major parkway to where I work had icing on the overpasses (every mile or two) with a couple of ramps closed down - but out west in the county it was probably worse. So a "fun" day. Did I waste it?
Started the download of the online game I had been beta-testing - DC Universe Online. Superheroes. Yeah, well, guilty pleasure. The download is 12.1 GB, and 11 hours later I am about halfway done, so needless to say, not playing on my day off.
Hit the library and returned the Warren Zevon bio. I have a lot more understanding of some of his songs now, and the man was a pure tormented genius. One quote in there from Carl Hiassen (sp) was about how tough it would be to be a genius - you can't be happy because you know too much.
Grabbed a one-week book, new one from Orson Scott Card. I like his stuff, although he is prone to turning single novels into series with very little provocation. Started reading it during lunch, then when done eating had a long chat with a dear friend who I never call but should. That communication resolution might actually work out now that I am realizing that there are people out there who care enough to listen, unlike some people much closer to me geographically, and offer opinions.
Meeting with the nice lady from Christian Brothers University - I will be teaching two Saturday sessions of GRE/GMAT prep (math) and making a decent sum...works out to something like $60/hour. And they are considering, based on the interest in this one, doing at least one like this during the summer, and possibly branching out to do prep for SAT/ACT for the high schoolers (as CBU is a Catholic university, it draws more from the diocesan high schools, which gives them a sort of captive pool).
More venting phone chat this evening. It helps to write, it helps to talk, even if nobody has answers (flash to an excellent book by John Brunner "The Shockwave Rider" in which there is a non-profit organization called Hearing Aid. You dial ten nines on any phone, connect to a live person, and they listen. At the end they say tell you they hoped it helped. There is WAY more to it than that, and the book is incredibly prescient as far as technological developments. Similar to his more famous and amazingly more prescient book "Stand on Zanzibar." Seriously, check these two out if you don't have them). Eventually something(s) will change, but in the meantime I need to stay sane, and I have found I can't do that entirely on my own.
School tomorrow. I think my mantra will be "only 3 days." Then Monday is a holiday.
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