Now that I’ve bought and got accustomed to a new notebook computer, my old desktop has mysteriously stopped having problems.
The other day I found out my grandmother has Parkinson’s disease. She was very cheery and positive on the phone. She’s taking drugs that slow down the effects of the disease, but there are side-effects. She gets dizzy once in a while. I don’t know if I should be sad; she seems happy, so I’m happy. I should try to see her sometime. She only lives an hour and a half from me.
Speaking of living, my goal is to be out of my current place by November 1, for the sake of the sanity of at least three people involved. However, different things keep being thrown into the works. I found a decent place in north Jersey, not far from my current place of work. They’re willing to take a month-to-month lease. However, things are looking increasingly good for this teaching position in south Jersey. The current music teacher called me the other day, while I was at work. The conversation stared like this:
Him: Hi, Spike (only he didn’t call me Spike). Can you talk?
Me: (Glancing at the six people sitting and talking in my office at the time.) Not really at the moment.
Him: Okay, well I’ll talk and you can just nod.
He went on to say that he spoke to the music superviser (or was it the superintendent? Super somebody…) and everyone was very excited about the possibility of me working there. He wanted to get an application in the mail to me immediately. If everything goes well, I’d be able to start right away instead of waiting until April.
Now this puts me in a position where I could end up moving north and working further south within a month. On top of this, a friend has offered to find a two-bedroom apartment with me, but she can’t move in until December 1.
Why does life have to be this complicated? And no, I’m not looking for anyone to post a “solution” right now. (That means you, Mr. Darren R. Sussman, who always seems to have an answer for everybody’s problems. 🙂 ) I just wanted to share my situation with the world.
i’m glad to be kept informed since i’m not really around anymore…. (although you work closer to my home than your own!).
good luck with everything and let me know how it turns out 🙂
I only SEEM to have solutions. I can’t really fix anything.
Anyway, I just wanted to point out that your friend who offered to find an apartment with you didn’t say that she COULDN’T move until December 1st, she said she probably wouldn’t be able to FIND anything for before December 1st.
Just trying to help…
I say move to South Jersey anyway now. You’ll probably get the job, and your current job sucks ass anyway.
I say move to Texas. Because… it’s better here.
I thought the saying was that everything is bigger in Texas.
That too.
Just come already.
um…gently suggests not moving to Texas….points out past conversation where Spike declared he never wanted to live anywhere south of Maryland….among other reasons not to move there…..but not wanting to offend Julie….
I wouldn’t be offended. Much. 😉
I’m not saying Spike should or should not move to Texas. All I’m saying is that Dallas is NOT in Texas. I don’t know where it is, but there’s no Texas around here. At least, not what I always understood Texas to be.
Well, Dallas is more of Texas than Austin is of Texas. Dallas actually has cowboys; Austin just has hippies.
Huh. I guess I just got confused when there wasn’t a cactus anywhere around. 🙂 I felt kindof let-down. But I’m over it now.
on a totally non-moving subject…. and in regards to another part of this post…. go see your grandma… before it’s too late!
i forgot the part where i was gonna say how much that means to grandma’s… even if they only remember you’re there for a moment or two… they really appreciate your being there more than you could ever image 🙂
…move to lancaster, the cows are great converasationalists!!
Sure, if you can talk to cows.