I viewed it as a $28,000 piece of paper. I certainly never would have guessed that I'd be using it here, in Kodiak. But for the last 2 weeks and until January 25 I am Miss Clendaniel, high school English teacher, long term substitute. And it's absolutely terrifying. And exhausting. And emotionally draining. And very time consuming. At least it keeps me occupied, and I'm getting paid. And sometimes it's not so bad and I do enjoy myself. I only have to make it through the end of January. On the downside, I'll be unemployed again at the end of January. I'll probably be ready to hand the reins back to the original teacher though. I spent my weekend at school. I might..just might...have managed to get things prepared so that I don't have to go in this weekend. But we will see. Seems like there's always something.
So it means I've been slowed up on finishing my socks. I have only just gotten to the point of turning the heel. It does tend to go fairly quickly from here on out, but I only get about 10-15 minutes in every now and then. Not going to move out too quickly at this rate.
I really don't have much else going on. I started working September 19th. That's basically occupied my time since then. I have managed to get out on 2 runs though! They're short. At 20-25 minutes in I start to get really tired and things start to hurt. At 30 minutes I'm ready to stop. I went out on a loop that was too long yesterday and had to walk at least 5 minutes at the end. At 35 minutes I was just done. I'm very disappointed about that. It's going to take a while to build back up to where I was. In the meantime, I can focus on helping Kevin work on his running. We were trying to get him ready to run the Run the Rock 1/2 marathon next Saturday. But things keep getting in the way like too many frickin' vacations! And injuries. Toe injuries and calf cramps. I had him up to 8 miles a couple weeks ago. But I don't want him to do too much and really hurt himself. Way too much responsibility to be a coach! I am proud of him though. I think he's been sticking with it longer than he ever has before. I hope he doesn't quit after this race though.
Other news...possibly moving into a house in November.
Kevin's working on buying this house. It's a duplex and already has tenants for one half. Pretty excited. Nothing final yet, but working on it.
And...other news? Not much. I've almost been here 4 weeks! Things seem to be going well. Kevin hasn't kicked me out yet ;)
