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?!?!

Emily, the policy here is that you can reschedule jury duty twice. I'm sure it varies by state and country, but you can at least look into it.

Alas,

Jurors are entitled to a one-time postponement not to exceed 6 months from the summons date.

S'ok. I've emailed the first school and said, thank you so much but I've decided to focus on high schools. Which is true. Mind you, I'll still be in a bind if other schools want me to do demos, but at least this one's working out.

If he signed off with his first name, you can use it. (My bitchier half says if he used your first name, because I have issues.) But following his lead is best anyway.

Oh good, because I just hit send. They've all been using my first name, and actually I think I agree with you -- if they use mine, then I get to use theirs -- but my insistent equity side wars with my supplicant side and I get all... squidgy. God, I hate the person I turn into when I need a job. I KNOW I'd be better off with more confidence and less worrying about what I "should" be doing, but this is inevitably how I end up acting.

Okay, off to worry about my sub plan for the next week. Thanks!