I was watching BSG and missed chance to take pictures of derailed train. They managed to get one set of tracks cleared. Then we had to wait for freight train with enginet rouble stuck on the one good set of tracks.

The test was long and difficult. Really glad I studied hard for it. I feel pretty good about the two multiple choice deals, but one test is four short essays and the other has two long literary anaysis essays, and those are the ones I think I did badly on. One had a truly lovely Gary Soto poem to analyze, so that was a pleasure as a reader if not as an essayist. I find out how I did in a month. The test took five hours and I was writing or filling in little circles for the entire time. I iz tired.

I have to wait a week to see if the English Internship is funded. If not, I start cramming to take the Science tests. The sad thing is that with this shitty economy the State may not fund any Internships this year, so I may end up literally sadder-but-wiser at the end of all this.

I got dressed, but then I sat back down on the couch again.

Oh well.

Good to see you communicating again and approaching your destination, tommyrot.

My butt has been on the sofa all day, but I have been working. I need to do off my butt work, but that hasn't happened.

Jeebus. I'm in stasis. I sat down at the table with my three pile of project papework and had not one good idea, nor impulse to actually do anything. Thank dog you all are here or I'd have been completely paralyzed with the not caring.

I find out how I did in a month. The test took five hours and I was writing or filling in little circles for the entire time. I iz tired.

I can imagine!

I have to wait a week to see if the English Internship is funded. If not, I start cramming to take the Science tests. The sad thing is that with this shitty economy the State may not fund any Internships this year, so I may end up literally sadder-but-wiser at the end of all this.

Oh, that would be a huge bummer.

I also need to do laundry here. grocery shopping I do need, but I think I can put it off.

I'm supervising Abby making her Reese's peanut butter cup brownies again. This time she's doing it all by herself with my only participation being unwrapping the PB cups.

These are for Grandpa's birthday, so it's way important that she do it all by herself.

Luckily, I can supervise from my desk chair.

Scrappy, if that happens and you still want to teach, keep in mind that private schools don't require a license. I know that isn't your first choice, but let me know if you want info about that process if you go that route. I can hook you up with two good placement agencies and tell you about pretty much every independent school in LA county, including one that's a fee miles from your house.

Regardless, congrats on getting through the test! Those things are brutal.