I feel like at 43, if I am going to make big life-altering choices, I better damn well make the right ones this time. And that's paralyzing.
Exactly. Especially because every choice I made up till now was a bad one.
Joyce: And what did you do tonight? Dawn: Irritated Giles. I'm beginning to get why Buffy likes it so much.
'Get It Done'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Amy - Jul 11, 2013 8:09:15 am PDT #28850 of 30001
Because books.
Kat - Jul 11, 2013 8:09:37 am PDT #28851 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Also, I have the same work malaise that many of you have. I like education well enough and it's different enough each day to be mentally engaging, but I'd like a job where I had a little more flexibility and more respect.
I am whammied, though, because Grace requires expensive health care and my health insurance is AWESOME and I worry she would not be eligible under other plans. Also, I can't change states because I have 13 years in my current district, which means I have 17 more years until I am retirement/pension eligible. Depressingly, if I moved to say the Pacific Northwest where I'd love to live, I'd have to start over and work for 30 years before I am pension eligible.
meara - Jul 11, 2013 8:32:18 am PDT #28852 of 30001
Kat, you know some plans let you transfer in a few years credit, in various ways? My mom retired (at 65 or 66) after working about 15 years in a school district near us--she was a teacher many many years ago before I was born, in Illinois, and then when I was in high school went back to college and got a degree as a speech pathologist.
Fred Pete - Jul 11, 2013 8:49:21 am PDT #28853 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Also burned out, wanting to do something else -- but I'm eligible to retire with immediate annuity/pension in a little over 5 years. I'd be a fool to leave now. I mean, I could, but then I'd have to wait 9 years for the annuity/pension.
Amy - Jul 11, 2013 8:50:07 am PDT #28854 of 30001
Because books.
Uh, if I spray a wasp (hornet?) with a lot of Windex, will I kill it? Or stun it enough to kill it?
Kat - Jul 11, 2013 8:57:48 am PDT #28855 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
meara, I'm still young enough that I'd reset. Our friend Julie who moved from CA to WA 4 years ago was reset to 0 and received no credits for out of state service.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 11, 2013 8:57:52 am PDT #28856 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Uh, if I spray a wasp (hornet?) with a lot of Windex, will I kill it? Or stun it enough to kill it?
That's usually my way of dealing with flying stinging things. Douse with something that impairs them and then crush them in a wad of paper towels. You can use the lump of paper towel to clean the excess Windex.
tommyrot - Jul 11, 2013 8:58:51 am PDT #28857 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
So my cat Squeaky had dental surgery today. They had to extract seven teeth. Damn.
Amy - Jul 11, 2013 9:00:14 am PDT #28858 of 30001
Because books.
Frank, that's what I did! I'm not even sure what it was now, but it was big, and it certainly looked like it had a stinger.
I did apologize, though.
Sue - Jul 11, 2013 9:03:00 am PDT #28859 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Aw, poor Squeaky. I guess it's soft food from now on.