Memorial day Parade at 10 am, parade route half a block from my bedroom. In the grand scheme of things, that's a reasonable time to have it, after all, everyone has Memorial day off, right? except for those of us who have to work at 2pm, and are short on sleep from having to get up at the asscrack of dawn to go in to work extra early on saturday and sunday, and need to fucking sleep this morning. When did parades start having explosions? Ok, so maybe it was rifle salute or firecrackers or something. If it were just cute little high schoolers in marching bands, I could have lain in bed enjoying the sounds of their cuteness, then drifted back to sleep. But no. explosions. Thbbbbbpt.

I have internet again! Hugs computer tight. What a bother to have to drive to the office to get anything done. Now I can work and play and not leave home. Whee!

Trying to get stuffs done this weekend. Last week of school next week. This is a good thing. So tired of homework battles.

Saw pirates last night. Much fun.

{{Tommy and Senor Sock}} I'm sorry that things are so rough.

The boys don't stick their fingers up my nose anymore, but it is rather ouchy when they step on my foot. They really do abuse when they are little tykes.

Emily, you should lie. Tell the school who you want to reschedule with about your jury duty! Imply (but do not actually say) that THAT's why you need to reschedule. If they won't, ass 'em in the ear.

Hi Fay!! MWAH!

So, working the cash register at teh ice cream store for five hours last night was slightly less fun than the afternoon of hammock and napping. But it could've been worse, I could've had to SCOOP the ice cream.

Also, there is a KITTEN at this house I"m staying at. He's like, 10 weeks old. SO CUTE. But OMG with the pointy claws...

Em, seriously, call the jury duty place, and ask them to postpone your jury duty, because it's interefering with the end of school AND job interviews. You'll have to do it later this summer, but they are pretty good about it.

When did parades start having explosions? Ok, so maybe it was rifle salute or firecrackers or something.

Once I drove a horse (DD) in a parade (St Patrick's Day) where there was a marching band behind us and the Fighting 69th civil war reenactors in front of us. At every snare roll from the band she would try to run into the soldiers but then they would fire off a salvo and she'd try to back into the band. Poor thing. But she did look awfully pretty prancing and tossing her head about.

Poor Emily.

Poor horse.

I did get some sleep after the parade was over. But that lead to dreams about needing to comb glue through fake fur to finish some project so I could graduate from high school. In the same dream, I was showing off pictures of where the Ohio River flows out of Lake Erie in cleveland. Naturally, the inaccurate geography of that is going to bother me more than the glue thing.

and one of the neighbor girls has developed the disturbing tendency to scream like a banshee. was screaming periodically during the parade, but not in reaction to the gunshots, just screaming for the sheer pleasure of it. and now she is screaming some more. I assume they are playing on the swingset. Or maybe just playing tag.

I'm home from my relaxing weekend at the beach. There was a showing at our apartment on Saturday, and apparently my landlord doesn't know how to shut a door because we came home to our front door ajar. She's lucky that nothing was stolen in here. I still called and left a curt message.

Problem is, I already did reschedule jury duty. I know, I know, it was mind-bendingly stupid not to have rescheduled for SUMMER, but... well, I'm going to see if I can talk to someone tomorrow. Because, really, interfering with job-finding should count as a hardship, I just wasn't thinking that clearly about it when I was supposed to put in my hardship form. Dammit.

Anyway, I think I'll go call the one place and give them my jury-duty-related regrets. Of course, either way I have to do a demo lesson, which is terrifying. EEEEK.

Good luck with the job interviews and the scheduling problems, Emily. I hope you get something really great for next year.

Okay, so if the guy signed his original email with just his first name (and used mine), do I use it to write back to him? I hate all this job-hunt-etiquette strangeness. And, of course, he probably won't even notice how I address the email, so what a waste of a worry!

Did I tell you, he was most interested in finding out about my MATH background? Not my management plan or my philosophy of education, but my math?!?!