Well, I am getting ready to head out to the coast with Winemonkey, first manuscript in tow for its absolute FINAL revision. Yesterday he was feeling under the weather and today I am not feeling 100%. I think that there is going to be a lot of laying around and reading, watching movies, and knitting. We have all of these crazy plans for good food for dinner, but I bet when the time comes we are both goingto be wishing for soup.

Anyone have anything fun planned for this weekend?

Yesterday I went out into the field alone and got crazy muddy. It felt good.

Today I am grading papers like it is going out of style.

And I have like fifteen meetings where I have to say that I have gotten nothing done. Lame!

But things are going well. I might actually finish all of my christmas presents on time. If only I could get my bank account to stabilize. Whew-eee.

Because I am listed as an instructor on a college class registration form!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh yeah. Look out! I could be teaching organic chemistry to your children. To you even!

I am so excited. Even if it is only part time. Even if I don’t know what will happen come March when I am still teaching the one class but have no money from graduate school coming in. Even if I haven’t taught a whole class on my own for like a million years.

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!! We should all go out and get drinks. =)

(I keep filing this under “blind luck” because I just can’t believe this is happening to me.)

You know it is a bad sign when your body starts hurting three hours after running. I hate to see how I am going to feel tomorrow.

Never take a week off and abuse your body to the fullest extent possible and then try to run a couple of miles. I would advise against it.

I am sick of running in circles and of feeling like I got run over by a truck the next day. Life is comical, why can’t we just all laugh about it? Why does it always have to hurt?

So I got the phone call. And I got the job! Which is awesome. Mostly. It would be one class, organic chemistry, on Tuesday mornings from 8am - 12pm.

Here are the pros:

1. It is only one day a week.
2. I would be getting experience.
3. The analytical lecturer owns his own company, so I might make a connection.

Here are the cons:
1. They are on the semester system. So when my funding runs out in March, I still have 2 more months to teach one day a week. This will make it hard to find a full time job.
2. Winemonkey is applying for a job in Oregon. If he gets said job, I am tied to this area until May.
3. The pay? The pay, she is shitty.
4. What if I am a sucky teacher?

I am not sure what is going to happen… Hopefully my part time job in Davis can become a mostly full time job. Then it wouldn’t be so bad. However, I would be commuting like 4 hours on Tuesdays just to teach one class. But this is a place where I would like to teach. Although college professors apparently make crappy money. I have too much soul searching to do and not enough money to do it.

I am supposed to be interviewing for a job today. RIGHT NOW! On the phone. And she hasn’t called yet. The only thing more nerve-racking is when the phone call is late and you know that your meter expires in ~40 minutes. What if the interview runs over?!?!? What if you miss the bus that you are trying to catch in one hour?!?! What if…. what if… what if…

Did I mention that my boss doesn’t want me to take the job? He wants me to stay until February. The end of February.