Mail is good!
What a great day! My camera just arrived - forwarded from Susan - and yes, it's very cute. And Amy just called and my visa had arrived there, so she's forwarding it on to me now. Woo hoo! I can stop phone stalking the Ghana embassy now!
But, I also make very bad choices. I had this cupboard with shelves that I had decided to give to Sabine and her new roommates. So today I cleared out everything in there and proceeded it lug it out and down the stairs by myself. I wrenched my shoulder - very bad pain - and back - which will be ok. I kept hoping Noah (neighbor) or Jose (across the way maintenance man) or Leo (neighbor) or anybody else would come by to give me a hand - but no such luck until I was trying to balance it up into the truck bed (by then I'd broken it and it was falling apart) and some nice young man I've never seen before was walking past and offered a hand. (He's Black. Not that that has anything to do with anything, but I'm going to start pointing out race for all positive things - to offset the news only doing it for crime perpetrators.) I am so stubborn once I've made up my mind, even once I realized it was a stupid thing to do alone. Sigh. The shoulder's been a problem for over a month now, and it has me a bit worried. Should I go to the doctor? But, I don't want bad news. So, like my truck and battery corrosion, I will shut the figurative hood and maybe the problem will go away.
I am officially right now resigning my position from Riverside Unified School District - the human resources person emailed and reminded me to take care of that. Sigh. It's sad. I actually really love my district and my school - not just the people, many of whom I've become close to, but also the institution has really nurtured me professionally. I'm proud of RUSD - for being the first large school district in the nation to voluntarily desegregate many years ago to its success now with challenging populations. I know it's not perfect, but it has heart and really does care about kids and their learning, and my three years in RUSD (well, especially after the first year) were a very positive experience in many ways.
Oh, and another earthquake about an hour ago. That's two sizeable ones in a few days ... if I were back in Elim people would be sure the little people would be marching from the hills to announce Armegeddon. Noah said something about the ground opening up and hellfire and I just nodded. I find discussion and arguments revolving around hellfire don't seem to be too productive. BUT, this afternoon/evening I'm out with Gail and Shelton - and he can be as argumentative as I, so maybe we can start with a hellfire discussion for sport. :-)
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Just an hour later - and more mail! Books I ordered, not scheduled to get here until next week. Wow!
Sabine called about the earthquake and asked where I was, what I was doing. Actually, I was singing Cake's version of "I Will Survive." And when the ground was shaking and things started falling, I just kept on singing, while moving under a threshold.
And my shoulder hurts bad my right arm is fairly unusable. Which is not good. But better here and now than later and elsewhere. Quite entertaining to try to shampoo with one arm only. And putting on/taking off a bra - quite difficult.
But, I also make very bad choices. I had this cupboard with shelves that I had decided to give to Sabine and her new roommates. So today I cleared out everything in there and proceeded it lug it out and down the stairs by myself. I wrenched my shoulder - very bad pain - and back - which will be ok. I kept hoping Noah (neighbor) or Jose (across the way maintenance man) or Leo (neighbor) or anybody else would come by to give me a hand - but no such luck until I was trying to balance it up into the truck bed (by then I'd broken it and it was falling apart) and some nice young man I've never seen before was walking past and offered a hand. (He's Black. Not that that has anything to do with anything, but I'm going to start pointing out race for all positive things - to offset the news only doing it for crime perpetrators.) I am so stubborn once I've made up my mind, even once I realized it was a stupid thing to do alone. Sigh. The shoulder's been a problem for over a month now, and it has me a bit worried. Should I go to the doctor? But, I don't want bad news. So, like my truck and battery corrosion, I will shut the figurative hood and maybe the problem will go away.
I am officially right now resigning my position from Riverside Unified School District - the human resources person emailed and reminded me to take care of that. Sigh. It's sad. I actually really love my district and my school - not just the people, many of whom I've become close to, but also the institution has really nurtured me professionally. I'm proud of RUSD - for being the first large school district in the nation to voluntarily desegregate many years ago to its success now with challenging populations. I know it's not perfect, but it has heart and really does care about kids and their learning, and my three years in RUSD (well, especially after the first year) were a very positive experience in many ways.
Oh, and another earthquake about an hour ago. That's two sizeable ones in a few days ... if I were back in Elim people would be sure the little people would be marching from the hills to announce Armegeddon. Noah said something about the ground opening up and hellfire and I just nodded. I find discussion and arguments revolving around hellfire don't seem to be too productive. BUT, this afternoon/evening I'm out with Gail and Shelton - and he can be as argumentative as I, so maybe we can start with a hellfire discussion for sport. :-)
**************
Just an hour later - and more mail! Books I ordered, not scheduled to get here until next week. Wow!
Sabine called about the earthquake and asked where I was, what I was doing. Actually, I was singing Cake's version of "I Will Survive." And when the ground was shaking and things started falling, I just kept on singing, while moving under a threshold.
And my shoulder hurts bad my right arm is fairly unusable. Which is not good. But better here and now than later and elsewhere. Quite entertaining to try to shampoo with one arm only. And putting on/taking off a bra - quite difficult.
posted by NOLA at 2:58 PM
1 Comments:
*Gasp* You like Boondocks too? I love Boondocks! Yesterday was fun! Too bad we did not get into the conversation about hellfire, maybe next time; heck, we can even talk about brimstones. Hope your shoulder is feeling better.
~Shelton (I don't remember what my blogger ID is. . .)
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