Moving around in circles...

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I managed to stumble through a 2,000-word translation today, and send it off, but I my heart wasn't really in it. I sort of rambled around the house for most of the day, keeping track of the animals and feeling generally uneasy, as if the rug had been pulled out from underneath my cozy little world.

I tried several times to find something to watch on the satellite TV, but there just isn't anything worth watching, not even as a way to waste time.

Still, I've been doing some software-related stuff. Maybe it'll even have a payoff! ;^)

Cheers...

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O has left for a week. Generally I enjoy these times of bachelorhood. Last time, however, I ended up getting kind of bored. I guess a week without someone to wait on has its disadvantages!

He will be in Baton Rouge for the second half of the week. (San Antonio the first half.) His purpose: visiting his aging aunt. Of course visiting Tobin is also part of the excuse. Last week I realized that I had Thursday and Friday off from work this week. I proposed that I fly out to Louisiana to join the party. I double checked on my days off, just to make sure. That is, I asked my colleague if we really did have two days off. He assured me we did.

I was at work on Friday when O made my plane reservations. Later that day, I was indulging in a rare happy hour with some colleagues. A large Margerita was helping me forget the trials and tribulations of an especially trying day. The colleague and another teacher began to talk about the inservice, ie, teacher training day, that would be occurring on Thursday.

I looked at him and said, "I thought you said we had that day off."

He replied, "Well YOU don't have to go." (because I am an assistant.)

"But that means it is a work day. It comes out of my vacation time," I reminded him. Making matters even more painful, this year one of their budget cuts was giving us 8 sick days rather than the previously awarded 10.

I am peeved with him because he hadn't reported to me the work day. I don't hear about these things because I am teaching a math class during the time of the faculty meetings.

I'm quite sure that he didn't report it to me because he finds everything covered at the faculty meetings to be excruciatingly boring.

Though I am peeved with him, I am even more peeved with myself for not checking a higher authority regarding the days off.

Oh well, I wanted to go to Louisiana and so I'm going, no matter what.

Meanwhile, I'm home alone. And the blasted TV is stuck on animal planet and I can't get it to move. It's not even showing a show, just a frozen image.

I guess I'll just have to satisfy myself with reading LJ I entries.

As you have no doubt discovered, that gets old after a while!