1, 2, 3.. AH HA HA! //*School Mumbo Jumbo
All the kitties are snuggled up in the bed with us, and me and Ross were just pretending to be The Count from Sesame Street, counting the cats. We’re SUPER dorks.
Speaking of. I need to bust out my math before shit hits the fan. It’s getting close to deadlines, and I’m planning to take Thursday off this week so I can work on it up at UAF for the day and my professor is still pretty much ignoring me. I’m just planning to go up to UAF and sit in the Math Lab tutoring center for the whole day and just force myself to get through this course. I might end up doing it again on Saturday, too. I need to hustle through it. RUNNING. OUT. OF. TIME. I’m also terrified of the final. FUCK.
But, I HAVE to do this. I HAVE to get through it. I ABSOLUTELY MUST pass this class, there are no choices.
Phew. I have Math 205 this fall, as well as American Sign Language and Yoga. I need to fix my schedule again, but Math is awful, it’s only offered at one time and it’s like 1030-1130am on Tue and Thur and 1015-1115 on Wed. That’s ridiculously difficult. The only way for that to be a full 8 hour day for me is to do a split shift, opening AND closing, 7-9am and then come back from noon to 6. That also means that poor Milo will have to be in his daycare room from 7am to 6pm, open to close. That SUCKS. It WOULD be nice to have the 9am-12pm break, have time for class and homework and everything, but I don’t know if I can work my other two classes into those slots on Mon/Fri, although the ASL and the Yoga classes are pretty flexible, being offered more than once a day and such.
Anyways. I’m just rambling and this is all stupid and boring and no one caaaares. AAAAHHHH.
~Me
First of all, how the HELL did i accidentally turn that whole top half into one giant link to lilliepie?!?! DAFUQ? I tried to take it off, but it won’t go away. UGH! So stupid. I could change it to a link to somewhere else, but I cant make it all NOT a link. SRSLY?! SRSLY?!
Anyways.
So I was doing some school planning when I left this entry, looking at my loans and my schedule- I think I’m going to take Conditioning Swim, which is just an hour of lap swim three days a week. It’s from 10:30-11:30 am on MON WED FRI, and then I am taking an American Sign Language class from 6pm-9pm on WED nights. The only class that I NEED for my degree and is available next semester is Math 205 (Thus, why I ABSOLUTELY CANNOT FAIL the math class I’m currently in, because it’s a pre-req for Math 205- which is how to teach math to kids.) Math 205 has the STUPIDEST schedule, it’s only available ONE TIME by ONE TEACHER, it’s Tue and Thurs from 945-1115am, and Wed from 915-1015am. It can’t even be at the same time on all three days?! GOD.
How inconvenient is this class for work? I mean, really? The only upside is that my job is pretty flexible and they can use me as a floater. However, it would be MOST helpful to them AND to me if I could work the same schedule every day. IT’s not a huge deal if I can’t, but Linda and Mesa made me unofficial preschool teacher when Shana left, and in order to DO anything with them, I sorta have to be there at regular times, you know? This Math 205 class is going to happen right in the middle of the morning when circle time and calendar time and all that shit would be happening, anyways, so I might as well just kiss the notion of being the REAL preschool teacher goodbye. I have a feeling that the class is going to be a wreck this fall, and that there won’t be much structure, and that I won’t end up really being in there very much. I think I’m going to end up out in the school age room, again.. awesome.
Anyways, this schedule basically leaves me available to do a split shift from 7-9am, which is a slot we used to fill with Keely, because we need extra bodies in the morning for School Age’s before-school kids. Serve breakfast, a little free time, nothing too busy or crazy, walk the kids across the street to school when it’s time for school to start. That leaves a very small group of 5 year olds who don’t make the Kindergarten cut-off date, and PM Kindergartners. (locally, we have 1/2 days for K) so it’s a manageable group, nothing heavy after the kids are at school for the day at 9.
SO, I could potentially work that morning 7-9 shift and then leave at the same time every day.. on Monday and Friday, I wouldn’t have a class until 1030, so there’s potential to work extra then or just go to the library and do homework on those mornings for an hour, until my conditioning swim class starts. Fine with me. I’ll be done with classes by 1130 every day of the week, so I can be back at work by 12, and work till closing (6pm) in order to get a full 8 hour work day, except on Wed, when I will need to leave at 5:30 in order to get to my sign language class on time- I’ll have to run the kids home to Ross, first. Coming in at noon is good timing, in general, because it means I’ll be there to help with nap time and cover people’s breaks through out the center. Then I’ll probably end up doing school age stuff again or closing the nursery (which I’d prefer)… if Danielle and Sammie keep working there next year, I imagine that Danielle will want to keep her school age ranking.. but idk if she’ll really stay. she keeps talking about quitting, it’s not good pay, especially for her because she’s still in high school and under 18. (I make decent money, considering.) She’s sort of a dumb bimbo, so I wouldn’t mind her leaving. She’s young, slutty, and full of herself. *shrug* She’s funny and I don’t mind working with her, most of the time, but she definitely gets annoying, and she definitely talks sh!t about EVERYONE when they aren’t there.
SO, the major down side of working the split shift is that I will be opening AND closing, which will be ROUGH, and that means Milo will be at daycare from open to close, also. That’s pretty lame 🙁 I’ll probably get to keep him with me for a good chunk of the morning shift, which is nice.. and I always get him at the end of the day, too.. I’m just going to feel awful about it. AND, the other MAJOR downside of this, is that I have no idea how I’m going to work around KASIN’S schedule. He has to be at school at 815, and if I work 7-9, I won’t be home for that. Ross will be ho
me until 8:20ish, so he can see Kasin off to school in the mornings, and in the winter Ross and Jesse (they carpool) could swing Kasin by the school on their way to work, since they have to be there at around the same times. So that part would be fine, although not ideal, as I’d rather get him off to school MYSELF.. we can work that out.
The BIG problem is that Kasin gets out at 3pm, and that’s smack dab in the middle of my work day/second shift. This last school year, I would leave work and pick him up at some point, and sometimes I would go ahead and pick up the other kids who go to the after school program at work, while I was out. That was nice, because I’d get paid to run across town and pick Kasin up from school and then wait in the parking lot of UPark for the other kids that go to my work for daycare. If Mesa was on this side of town, she would pick Kasin up on some days for me and I wouldn’t have to go over here, and sometimes I wouldn’t be the person picking up the UPark kids, so I would have to clock out to go get Kasin and then lose out on 30-45 minutes of pay. Towards the end of the school year, I also started showing up later and later to get him, which was a problem.
I need to talk to the owner/boss lady about all of this, soon. She doesn’t do any planning in advance, though.. So I’m hoping that what I can do is arrange to work the morning/breakfast shift from 7-9am and then go to school, come back at 12, cover breaks and help with nap time, pick up Kasin at 3 and the UPark kids (they get out at 330), as well, while on the clock, and then close in the nursery every afternoon. THAT would be my ideal situation/plan. I am going to propose all of this tomorrow to the boss-lady, and hope that she likes it. Overall, I think she’s going to tell me to fly by the seat of my pants. I also think she’s going to forget all of this before it happens.
If it DOESN’T work out, I’m not sure what I’ll do.
The saving grace of my Sign Language class is that it takes place at the down town campus, which is like, three blocks from my house.. so I’ll have time to drop off the kids on my way to that class on Wed nights. Phew… Ross is still going to hate Wed, though, because he’ll have to do dinner/homework/chores/bed time by himself on Wed every week. which honestly, I don’t feel like that’s asking too much, yanno? *shrug* I do most of that stuff every other day of the week, but he doesn’t seem to notice. lol
Alright. I’m calming down. I should go to bed. UGH. Why do I stay up so late?!
~ME, again.
(oops, I deleted my tickers on accident. FAIL.)
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