Typical Spring Break for Me

I've been on Spring Break for 3 days, now. I spent all day yesterday job hunting. Yes, that's right. I sat on my ass and "clicked" for about 5 hours yesterday. As it turns out, almost every school for which I was applying (high school, that is) has an online application program that applicants must complete before even submitting resumes, cover letters, etc. Most of the schools are working from the same program, so I usually just had to "import" my existing application from another school and update the information for each specific school. This means that in about 5 hours I complete, give or take, 10 applications.

I hate this. Why can't it be like in the "real world" where an applicant signs up with an agency, gets a phone call or two a day, gets set up with two or three appointments a week, walks in, sits down, hands the resume to the interviewer, smiles for a few minutes, and walks out with a job? I really do hate this.

So Waubonsee Community College is looking for someone to teach summer school to high school students -- and they are paying a little more than $1500 for each class -- each 8 hour / week class for 8 weeks. With grading time built in, I figure that's about $12.00 / hour for 15 hours a week. I can handle this. They need people with my specific qualifications. Let's see if this will work.

I have a lot of cleaning to do this week and I MUST get through all of my mail, my doctor bills, my claim forms, etc. Gotta, gotta, gotta. I have no grading to, I have to start a paper for Dr. Gomez-Vega, and I have two books to read -- just read. Of course, I only have a month to wrap up this paper, but oh hell. It's a 20 page RESEARCH paper (and if a little argument creeps in, that's fine, too). I think I am definitely going to write on Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, by Anne Tyler -- mostly because Pearl is so much like my grandmother it's scary.

I'm going to start my laundry and, maybe, work a little on the kitchen (that's a 3 day -- maybe 4 day job).