I've read and enjoyed The Count of Monte Cristo. But there are two versions.

Dumas wrote one of those thousand-page 19th-century novels of the type that I love to get lost in. But the unabridged version had a lot of content that wouldn't pass muster in the English-speaking countries of the era. So the publisher severely abridged the book for UK and US audiences. For example, the thinly veiled lesbian relationship was cut out.

So if someone says they like CoMC, I ask which one.

I love the unabridged version. The long conversations about politics, the long descriptions of traveling in Italy, the long . . .

Well, yeah, long, but so good.

Why is liking it a lot supposed to be a red flag, again?

Are we still doing onerous task day? So far today I have had bloodwork done and had my car inspected. But I still have to call and interview home inspectors in case our bid goes through.

Are we still doing onerous task day?

If need be!

My onerous task will be working; I don't wanna. But...suck it up, bitca! Right?!

So: clean off desk and file, Swiffer office floor, do blog and video planning for February, and do personal and business finanacials stuff today.

Yes, if we get the house I am going to have a huge list of onerous tasks.

Also, why am I checking my e-mail obsessively when I know the offer isn't even being presented until 3?

Yeah, I was expecting my teleconference that started at 9AM to last for two hours as planned, and figured I would half listen, and half get shit done (somehow that usually works pretty well for me, if I'm doing shit like expense reports, that doesn't take a whole brain).

But it only lasted 45 minutes, and now I have to buckle down and I dont' WANNA.

I quit being a grown up. This is my notice.

So I found out that my position *is* being eliminated. I have enough seniority that I will probably get another placement possibly even in my same school. Everything would stay the same, I would just change classrooms, essentially. And I would actually be assigned to a student(s) with special needs.

OR.

I can take a voluntary lay-off until probably the fall. No guarantee of job placement in the fall, but I would have recall rights and I would get unemployment. Which would pay me through the summer, but I'd loose our health insurance. Em could totally get covered through the county and she would be fine. I could get treated at PP or the like. I would also, probably, get more money from unemployment than I do working full time.

Blergh.

And on top of it, I forgot my books for school and had to come home. Grr argh.

Blergh, indeed. I hate those kinds of decisions.

And on top of it, I forgot my books for school and had to come home. Grr argh.

I've done that. It sucks.