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Coming soon: more work from someone creative, ambitious, and determined - often called a variant of insane/crazy. Notes: Genderfluid. Preferred pronouns (they/them) [& denotes married couples] Immediate Family: soon-to-be-ex-Dilbert, Tempest, Dogbert My Extended Family: (s)Dad, cousins (K, D, G, J, F, N) I guess it's good to be on speaking terms with someone. Voluntarily. AuntS Dilbert's Extended Family: SIL (+5 kids)& BIL, FIL's gf (only for holidays, mostly) Important People I Don't See Enough: Owl + Partner, Paradise ICON crew (which owl is a part of) People I've Known a Long Time/Long Distance: Doc & [husband], Sheer & DocSheer, Mrs. Light & [husband], Trillium & Diego (not married but close enough), Steph Local People: MotherDroid, Owl&Partner ... There are about to be new people on this list, because, well, I'm evolving. And it hurts. DnD: used letters, S (DM), D(doctor), Y(because I like him!), K(old RPGer friend who also attends church), P(church guy who does game night and is local and our families are also friends), A (went to church but moved back to Chicago, moved back locally then i moved) Tempest's friends: I don't know very many of her local friends. She's got an internet buddy who also talks to CousinK's younger daughter. the younger daughter is DRAMA. Dogbert's friends: Has a new group of friends based on a Pokemon thing and they have a DnD club at school and outside of school. Lucky kid! |
| So, krav is going decently. However, the sprained ankle is still bothering me a bit for kicks. It has been seven weeks and change, and I'm simply done with dealing with it. I tape it, and I soaked it once this week. Other than that, I'm trying not to let it hold me back. I taught the class last night. The teacher handed me the clipboard and he didn't take it back. My class, he said. He bit his tongue twice, and while they had suggestions - I don't think the class was a train wreck. Turns out I had a migraine, too, though not a terrible one. (I threw up when I got home.  ) Both my teacher and the owner talked how to get better, and I appreciate it. Then he talked more about me possibly teaching, and how much do I need for salary, and what that means for how many numbers he needs to pull in for the thing. No subs, no alternatives, as a subcontractor style. I've been holding it in, but then I told Dilbert. He doesn't like how far it is away. Why don't I spend more time writing? Partly it's because I don't spend the time writing. Or I do, seasonally, but I don't feel like I'm doing anything for good progress forward. Until last month when I actually made a good effort to edit daily. And then came Game of Thrones, which I joined on a lark with two friends who are no longer playing (one is a sub, one is a stark). That hasn't worked out so well for me, momentum wise. However, this will change again in two weeks when the kids are in school. It'll also change my Y schedule now that I won't be teaching Wednesday nights, either. Oh? Didn't tell you that? The unpleasant woman who ran Y Pals is gone (she had many other duties including dance, tumbling, and the pool) - and she didn't care that she sabotaged Y Pals along with it. Her last week, no one was signed up in the evenings and no one was scheduled afterward. And the woman who stepped in temporarily (they guess until midSeptember) is not going to be changing that. So, I mention this to the director of the branch (my supervisor was gone that day), and she had three things to say: 1. eight year olds are welcome to roam the branch unsupervised by the Y. 2. This is a member service, not a staff babysitting program, and 3. haha, i don't make more than i pay out in child care, either. If she was my boss, I would have quit then and there, all five classes. I had a sub for last Wednesday, and I only popped in at the end to say hello and that we'd only have class one more week. My mother will have the kids, so that won't be a problem. One of the members said her oldest would turn 8 soon, and I told her to fill out comment cards about this needed program. That's what I told all of them. It won't save the class, but it should bring the program back when someone stable goes into the job. Speaking of which, I know that it took 3 supervisors for my position before we got one who stayed (okay, she's only been there 8 months, and the first one was there about 10 months, but current one seems much more likely to make it). And my supervisor listened while I explained all of that, and she had said she would look into options from a short text/email exchange. She found no options. She's sad, but she was also happy I didn't quit straight off. She knows that I'm very valuable to the Y, even if the Y doesn't.  If you're curious, for me to pay a babysitter to continue teaching this class is out at least $10 every single week, after salary, taxes, and gas... It doesn't make sense. So this other possibility of working within a small, family-run company of people I like and respect, seems like a good idea. The studio is also fine, but I need to advertise my class better. Which I have known and simply not done. Ugh. And my other class? Thriving, at least. I prefer it when word of mouth speaks for me. I need to work through that. Also, I picked a fight with one of my krav buddies during kali (stick fighting). I was the only female fighter that night, and while we're often in the minority I'm not the only one as often. He called all of his male partners 'ma'am.' And i asked him what he was saying about that - because he's insulting ME with that. He's saying I am not a good fighter because I am the one who is normally called ma'am. I'm not sure I got through to him yet. Which I mentioned to both the teachers after they critiqued me for the krav class. And also that I didn't like that other little guy that had been bothering me so much (the one who prayed over my ankle) in his first days. I still don't like him, but I'm polite and I don't engage him as much as I can do without becoming a target. They don't like him either! My krav teacher was like, yeah. And the owner said no one likes him. So that is nice enough, at least I'm not alone in this, and I hear the kid is going away soon. I can deal with that. But I want to teach there. I want to be around these people, even though many of their views are different than mine. I still feel part of it there. Am I wrong to want that? |
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