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Urgh. Tired.

Another day of classes behind me. That makes three. I’ve come to realise that I’m actually enjoying myself teaching, but it is tiring. Or maybe that is just getting used to sleeping early and waking up on time. It could also be the fact that I had beers between classes today. It’s probably a combination of a whole host of factors. Except, of course, for the beer. It can’t be the fault of the beer.

I applied for three weeks of leave today. I imagine that it doesn’t leave them too happy when a person who’s only been with them for three days asks for three weeks of leave. I realised the danger in doing that, but I aim to prove myself by that time.

I’ll work real hard when I’m there, so that it will not be a problem when I’m away. Or at least, they won’t mind when I’m away. Or maybe I’ll be content if they just don’t fire me while I’m away.

I guess I’ll just have to wait and see what happens. I enjoy the job, but I will not sacrifice my life for it. It is just a job to make ends meet, even while I work on the rest of my career on the outside. I do have to say, it seems that the job is uniquely suited to that.

The biggest drawback to the job is the fact that I do not know my classes until 3 o’clock the day before. Also, sometimes there are holes in my schedule of maybe two three, or even five hours. For people that live far away that is problem. For me, who lives close by, it isn’t. I can be home in 15 minutes, or I can go work with Shazam after a 20 minute walk. So it all works out fine. When I’ve got a break I just go away and work on something else.

I am, for instance, supposed to be writing a concept page for a library. Don’t ask me what that means, because I don’t know. All I know is that I’ve been commission to write it and that I’ve been given a stack of papers to read through.

So in between classes I can occupy myself with that. It would be even easier if I could get my hands on a laptop to write on. A cheap thing that doesn’t have much processing power but can run word and isn’t too heavy. First things first, however, lets first get a pay cheque.

posted by Symbol @ 5.10.05