I think I finally have a calm week on my hands. Last week was just as crazy as previous weeks, and as I came into the weekend I realized how sleep deprived, malnourished, and wound up/sick I was from the stress of it all. I believe I unwound over the weekend, but I am no longer going to allow any of the BS get to me. I am at peace with the fact that my teaching job is just simply NOT worth the stress--16 hours of paid work per week, many more unpaid hours of preparation, 16 HOURS of straight teaching of anatomy (oy vey!), and a ton of blaming (all to me) for everything that goes wrong. Nope, it ain't worth it. One look at my paycheck for the last two weeks, and I thought, "Why am I this sick when this is all I'm getting paid?" Crazy. I am almost hoping that I get laid-off when my next two classes are done (because, technically, I am subbing for a teacher who is on maternity leave) or fired. I've never been on unemployment, and I think it would be fun.
I interviewed at a yoga studio for a massage gig. It's a really wonderful place, it has a store and several rooms, plus a wellness center. It smells good, it has relaxing music playing, and the job pays well. AND, they offer other alternative therapies like hypnotherapy. AND they offer classes. So, yeah. I'm happy about that. And I gave that woman one of the best massages of her life, so I'm in. Hurrah.
Summer is practically here in southern CA. It's been so NICE!! I can't remember the last time it rained, and I can't even remember a day when it was cloudy most of the day. It's warm and sometimes it's hot. Yey. Everyone keeps warning me about "June Gloom," though, which is a weird phenomenon where it gets foggy and cloudy during May/June. We'll see. I vaguely remember this from living in San Diego--lots of marine layer & clouds, especially at the beach, which usually burned off in the afternoon. Not too shabby.
And now for the pictures. My kitty cat has been especially clingy lately. It's unlike her, actually. She spends a lot of time in my lap:
And I have this big 750 sq. foot apartment all to myself, so now you get to see what my daily life looks like. Here is the bedroom, with the king-sized bed Leo & I bought, complete with a cardboard box for a nightstand (covered with green fabric):
Okay, Blogger sucks, and I can't find a way to change the order of the pictures, so they'll have to stay in the order I uploaded them. Here is a snail that crossed my path in the courtyard of the chiropractic office I've been working at! I don't believe I have ever seen a snail crawl past me before. Apparently, though, they are quite common here and a bit of a nuisance (they eat the flowers or something):
Here is a picture of my living room as I worked on my thesis last week. Yikes. This has been a lot of work, but I did manage to complete a good solid (final?) draft of my proposal last weekend, so I'm moving forward, yay!
Here's the view out of my patio. Not too interesting, but you can see the southwestern influence on the buildings:
And my living room when it's clean:
And the flip side of the living room:
And this is my desk. See? I really do have a real-time home set up. It's a little more like a college dorm, furniture-wise, but it works. I don't have to sit on the floor or anything. (Note the cat passed out on the floor.)
This is a nearby park that I've been jogging around. It is not interesting in any way. It has a squiggly loop around the parameter, so it works well. The only annoying part is the soccer games that fill up with breeders on the weekends. Oops, did I say that?! Sorry, don't mean to offend. But, holy hell, these people are annoying. They and their brats just run all over the path, balls flying everywhere....I f'ing HATE soccer!! Ugh. I need to find a better place to jog on Saturdays:
That's it for now. I am still little bits of homesick, finding myself looking ahead to the fall/winter/spring of the coming year so that I can figure out what the future will hold. Leo & I are trying to do the one-visit-per-month thing, with each of us alternating months. It's hard, though, even to do that, because we are both so busy. His business is going well, and I'm all over the place with all of my curriculars and extra-curriculars. I'm still planning my next visit for late June, for over a week, but my thesis chair/professor may be screwing it up for me--she is traveling and unavailable between mid-May and mid-June, and after telling me that I could propose my thesis in late-June she is now telling me that it probably won't be possible and why did I book my ticket?? Ugh. So, who knows, I may just be coming in June AND July. At least it will be summertime!
All of this and I'm spending SO MUCH money to be out here--it's crazy! Rent is SO high, utilities are all separate (including water and trash!!), and life is just stressful. So, I have a lot of ambivalence. As usual. Sigh. Life goes on...
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