askye, I hope you get to feeling better soon.

Aims, I'm sorry to hear about your suckitude of choices.

NY Attorney Schneiderman has filed suit against big banks over mortgage practices.

Ok. So it all shook out quite different.

I am being moved into a kindergarten room with a really nice teacher. She's fairly new - only 2 years in - and kind of got saddled with a lot AI, LD, and behavioral issue kids. She has two parapros, one of which got laid off. I will be paired with one boy half of the day who spends the other half of the day in the special ed room and the half a day I don't spend with him, I'll spend assisting a second boy. I'll be in the same hallway with the paras that I'm really close to and I think I'll enjoy it in the long run.

I'm feeling better about things in genereal today. Thank you all so much for the support last night. I've been on the verge of a panic attack all week and I'm just glad I know where I'm going. Though I feel like total shit because the girl I displaced is A) Emeline's music techer's daughter, B) an awesome girl who has that touch to work with challenging kids, and C) just got engaged and is planning her wedding. I saw her in the hallway and I gave her a huge hug and just kept saying, "I'm sorry." I'll shadow her for three days next week so that the kids get used to the idea.

I'm going to miss my kids so very much. I am heartbroken to leave them, especially my twins. I love those noodles.

Thank you again. You helped me get through the night without completely losing the plot.

Aims, I'm glad to hear that. I didn't get a chance to post last night, but I was thinking about you.

Aimee that sounds hard.

(((Aims))) Sorry not to post earlier, but I've been thinking of you.

askye, I hope you're feeling better.

I filed my federal taxes. I thought I should get to file state for free though Turbo Tax since I qualify for free filing with federal but they still want to charge me.

Also I forgot to pay my rent! I wrote the check and shoved it in a return envelope from the gas company and went and stuck it in my landlady's mailbox (which is the front of the house).

My gas bill was 20 bucks higher than last month, which I was expecting. It's $78.

The manager of my building has decided that he doesn't want to give receipts for rent payments. He stopped doing it a while ago, but would - most of the time - give you a receipt if you had a note with your rent check asking for one. Now ... he's decided he isn't going to do them at all. So I never know if he's gotten the check; last month I called three times to try to find out if he had the check ... only he's never available (he seems to work from 10am until 3pm, with a long lunch). Since the previous manager lost my checks too often for comfort, I like to find out before they stick an eviction notice on my door.

Isn't giving people receipts for payments - especially something as large as my rent - kind of a standard business practice? And the management company has a website where you can - in theory at least - check, but I took a look and (1) they demand a lot of information, including SSN and (2) I don't think it's secure.