Last night I did it. Over the last week or so I’ve managed to get myself in the position where I don’t get tired until two hours later than then time I was able to fall asleep the night before. This problem culminated last night, when I wouldn’t start getting tired until 5:00am, precisely the time I needed to wake up this morning.
So I lay in bed for a couple of hours thinking I might be able to cheat the pattern. No such luck. I decided around 3:00am to get out of bed and start getting ready for the day.
I had my interview with the principal of the elementary school this morning. It went really well. I learned more about the position, and it now it doesn’t sound as frightening as it had before. Yet, I’m still very uncomfortable about the whole situation, especially since the high school job I would start in the fall sounds less and less appealing.
I did hear about another possible opening in a town in the adjacent school district. (The band director was caught — twice — looking at internet porn websites in his office while school was in session.) So I stopped by that district office to get an application, but nothing had been decided about that band director’s future.
There just seems to be something inherently dirty about being a high school instrumental music teacher.
On the way home I stopped off at a regional Division of Motor Vehicles office to pick up my “abstract,” otherwise known as a “rap sheet.” It’s not pretty.