It's kind of neat to hear that a favorite high school teacher thinks you have a cool job. She was my ChemII teacher, and a really good one at that. I know several people who went into engineering because of her. Plus, she let me hang out in my off period in the chem room or do demos for her ChemI classes.
When I inadvertently organized a senior skip day (it started out as just me and a few close friends skipping and heading out to White Sands for the day/full moon evening, picnicking and grilling and next thing I knew, more than 100 students were out on the dunes all day into the night) she came out for half a day with her family, who also skipped. She was the right mix of authority and friend.
This is our ninth year at our current jobs. The mind, it boggles. I always previously used to get antsy around five years. Like if I somehow stuck with a job too long, I'd have committed too much of my life and identity with it. This one, that's water under the bridge.
Liese, this is my 10th year doing what I'm doing, though I've changed schools multiple times. I'm still with the same "company" but a new location. For me, there is something about this job that means it automatically means committing too much of your life! Even in year 1.
ita, on the JJ Board, I snerked when I read "Dramatically change your hair, Go back to start. Unless you're Keri Russell then GAME OVER."
16 years in one place, give or take a few months, sadly not in quite the same position as where I started out (embarrassingly, I still have dreams about my old boss--sometimes we're just talking or hanging out companionably like father and daughter, but in the most recent one, he'd hired me back except with the added job duty of constructing large, elaborate ice sculptures of Chinese dragons), but still mostly at the same place, with about a year of temping there before going full time. It's not remotely ideal, but it's safe, and I'm good at it. So there's that.
HEY!
But you don't like bacon. It's not slander if it's true.
The fact that everybody knows that bacon-hating is a character defect isn't our fault.
Pfffft
hey, Hec, guess who gave her notice yesterday and had her last day today?
Paging Kat! Scrangie's got pictures of the new OPI Spring collection up, including the green you're interested in. [link]
Huh. Finally got my final grade for a class from last semester. Thought I was getting a C+. Got a B- instead. Rock.
Question for the hivemind....
As I was driving down the mainstreet near my house, a minivan pulled out of the Target parking lot and hit a honda civic pushing the civic across the street and around. The driver of the civic got out and took off running behind CVS, trying to get away.
I was immediately behind the civic and kept going because I have a kid who needs the potty.
Would you have called 911 on getting home (it was 1 minute from my house)?
