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So things with me are moderately not great. I found out this week for sure that my position is being laid off. It's because the money that they were paying me with was Covid funding, and that funding is ending. So I am going to be having to move to a new school. Not sure which one. I have to make a decision as to what path I am going to take by March 4th, but will be continuing my current job until the end of the school year. And I'm just so bummed. I will miss all the kids that I've gotten to know. And I really did enjoy teaching them their letters and how to read. It was so fulfilling to start with a kid who didn't know all of their letter sounds and take them to learning how to read actual words.

It's the final week before the trip! I have my new phone now, got that on Friday and set it up. Got my headphones on Friday too. They are very nice! The active noise canceling is so weird, but I like it. I just laid in bed and listened to music for a few hours.

Work is going good. We are finally working with kids, and I have some good groups. I have quite a few kids that are still learning their letter sounds, some of whom are in second grade. So hopefully I am doing this right and am actually helping them. So that they can be on level with the rest of their classmates.

It is so close to our trip that I am starting to vibrate! 10 more days till I will be flying to Rome! Should be getting my new phone on Friday. Saturday we are going to go get our nails done so we are looking fresh. Planning to go visit my mom and sis on Sunday to do dinner and catch up.

Finally started to do actual work this week. Worked with groups of kids on Monday and Tuesday. Today is our early release day so we don't meet with kids, and just work on prep. So we are going through their placement test results so we can more accurately focus on the skills they are lacking in. The results for each student are about 20 pages of data so it's going to take us a while to go through all of them, even just doing our own caseloads. But it's nice quite work so I don't mind.

Going to get another cup of coffee and get started on looking these things over.

I am in Season 3 of Hannibal now. And i just love how Bedelia is there as he is serving these dudes fancy meals made of people and saying shit like, "This cocktail was served to first class guests on the titanic during the last dinner" and her face. Her face is just so good. Shes like, omg for real? Why are you like this?

I had a decent weekend over all, up until the end. I mostly just played BG3 by myself even though M said we were going to play our coop game. He is just really into Starfield so I guess we will never finish our game haha. Sunday my mom called me to tell me one of their dogs was having trouble breathing, so they were taking her to an emergency vet. I wound up driving out to her house twice to take care of the dog that was still at home while they were gone, which M wasn't too happy about, because it's a bit of a drive. Their dog, Roxy, ended up having congestive heart failure and had to be put down. So that was a sad end to my weekend. My mom is down to having just one dog now, Roxy's sister. She has had to put 2 dogs down now this year, which has been tough on her.

At work right now and they are doing 9/11 stuff but it's so weird because none of these kids were even alive when it happened. I was alive, but none of these kids were. But that's just the ever flowing passage of time I guess. Events that happened in my youth are now historical events that we teach kids about.

Going to put in my request for time off today I think. For the 2 weeks we will be visiting Greece/Italy next month. Since we only have 3 weeks till we leave. I am pretty sad that we weren't able to get a lot of the excursions that we wanted to do because none of of had money when they were available. We are going to try to book some when we get onto the cruise, hoping that they set some spots aside for people to book once the cruise starts. Mostly we want to visit Pompeii but the tour is sold out that we wanted to do. So either we get lucky or we will have to take a cab there and just walk around ourselves.

Oh my gosh I just closed this tab and was freaking out thinking I lost everything I had typed up till now. But it was still here when I reopened the tab. *phew*

ANYWAYS. I am hoping to get a new iPhone before we go on our trip, but who knows if I will be able to get one. They are supposedly officially announcing them tomorrow, so we will see about when the release date is. I haven't had an iPhone in years, but they are nice, so I am switching back. So Apple can steal all of my data.

I fucking found the earring babes. Everything is good!

If You have not yet watched NBC Hannibal, this will include major plot spoilers.

Have been watching Hannibal for the second time and it is just as good as I remember it being. I love these fancy men with their intricate seduction rituals. Just finished season 2 last night and when Hannibal holds Will close as he guts him? *chefs kiss*

I remember watching for the first time and honestly thinking that Will had killed Freddie Lounds. Not initially, when they "eat" her, but when what's supposed to be her burning body is discovered, they totally had me. And I want to say that I was relieved that Will didn't really kill and eat her, but I was also so disappointed that she wasn't dead. I really wanted her to be dead.

Ohayo,
Just enjoying a chill day off~! Slept way too late (like 12) and woke up with a headache and feeling nauseous because of said headache. Frew up when I was brushing my teeth. I'm finally feeling a bit better now that I had some ramen to eat. Watched some Devil is a Part Timer. Maybe gunna play some Diablo, I dunno.

I didn't do very much stuff today. Slept in till 10, even though I only stayed up till about 12 last night. I wanted to stay up later but I was already falling asleep a bit while we were trying to watch a show. Anyways, I got up, laid in bed scrolling on tumblr and listening to my audio book till about 11. Then I got up and showered. Got pizza and wings for lunch, and watched some anime ( Devil is a Part Timer ). Then I got a bee in my bonnet and decided to copy over all of my old LJ to a word doc, comments and all, so I have another backup. So, I just finished doing that. It took way less time then when I backed up my Diaryland account. That took days. haha Note to Me: I need to save my icons, and upload more of them to this account.

My keyboard is acting weird. The space key keeps doing double spaces when I hit it?? Until I try to get it to do it, then it won't. At first I couldn't tell if it was me. But now I'm sure it's not like I'm hitting it twice, or holding it down to long. I'm just typing like normal. So I dunno if I need to clean it or if I'm gunna have to get a whole new keyboard just because the space bar is fucked. >:(

Man I am feeling so weird lately. I'm getting that anxious feeling because I can't remember things. It sucks so much! I will just zone out thinking about how I can't remember when I'm trying to work. It makes me feel sick. Please make it stop. Thanks!