How do I let almost a month go by between posts, especially when so much is always happening in life?

I am again at work at the library: technical services this morning, and circulation all afternoon. I'm all set with a boatload of work, but less than I normally bring to do. Today, my focus is my e-portfolio-- a managable boatload of work. :) A boatload that I just finished-- hell yesss. I have also found two videos and a book on India that will work for the studying that my third graders are doing on the country. I might look ahead and see if we have any good resources here on Africa, which we will be studying next. My next goal for the workday involves getting letters written to area schools at which I would like to work. I'll edit them when I get home, print them up on nice paper and deliver them with my resume next week. I spent $25 on that resume paper and envelopes. I'd better use them.

I only have a month left as a university student, which means that I only have three shifts left at the library, including today. The weekend of the 10th, I won't be working because I'll be in Delaware with Zac and the weekend after that, I graduate and won't be working. So I've got this weekend, next and the first of May. And then no more library. It's making being here a lot easier. It seems gorgeous outside and I'd rather not be here. I've worked here too long, and have gotten lazy.

In addition to being in the last run at the CIMC, graduation means kicking it up a notch trying to find a real job for next year. I've got a job lined up for summer school and I plan on continuing to apply for jobs until I get one. It's a bit stressful. I'm too much of a planner, who needs to know what will be happening, to wait around like this. But I'm confident that at the very very least, I will have a job subbing or as an early childhood teacher. Those jobs are a plenty. I'm going to go for a full time teaching position in a K-6 classroom first, though, of course. Feeling hopeful!

Generally on Saturdays, I also bring my weather unit stuff and sit there looking at it, not sure where to start. Kym told me on Friday that instead of just two weeks, I could have up to four weeks for my unit, which means that I wouldn't have to rush and condense things. I think this will make it easier to plan and I will get a lot of that done tonight and tomorrow, while Zac's playing Halo 3. I do believe it's Powet Game Night tonight. I will make myself work instead of falling asleep on the couch!

Oh yes. Zac and I have completed the move! We moved in last Sunday and things are well on their way to being fully set up. There are just a few odds and ends around, and I've got a closet full of things that I don't want to have to go through until summer, but we're in a fully working townhouse now, and I think things are going very well. :) This week flew by, and I was tired from the move and the unpacking, but I feel like now I can finally relax and enjoy the niceness of it all. It's going to be a good summer.

While I was working in the back this morning, I was thinking of things that make me happy. The list is as follows:

• Zac
• The new apartment
• Going to the gym (or rather, having already gone to the gym for the day)
• Eating delicious food (which makes the previous bullet point even more essential)
• Being outside
• Doing something active outside
• Scrabulous
• A breeze of fresh air through an open window
• Cooking and/or baking things
• Being in a clean area
• Having free time
• My students (I'm going to miss those little buggers-- I choked up thinking about their sweetness on Friday)
• Zac
• Music that I enjoy dancing to
• Video and computer games
• Knowing that I graduate in a month and only have three shifts, including today, left at the library

That's my list. I added to it a bit as I was typing. Oh yes, I did. I like caffeine, too. I didn't mention that one. I have had a decent amount today. I think I'm going to get another DC. Or rather, a 20 oz DP, because it's only 35 cents more than a can of DC.

I feel happy today. I feel bad because my morning got off to a bit of a rough start and I was kind of cranky on the trip to take Zac to work, but it was nothing that it being a lovely Saturday that's not too busy at work, and full of caffeine and thoughts of a contented evening couldn't reverse.