Current location:	The Homestead
Current mood:	rushed
Current music:	"Generitalia" by Ed Hall

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
Goddamn. I mean, Hey-Zeus Christo, you know? Man, what a day. I mean, there are days and then there are DAYS. And today was one of those DAYS!

1. I did not take the school car to East Texas this week but left it in my driveway and took my own car as I was already behind as the car was overheating and so I just left and was gone daddy gone. Today, this morning, I go out to nurse the car back to the school and, OH MY, now it has fucking flat on the back tire. Got fix-a-flat. Got it kind of aired up. Got it back to the school just in the nick of time as the engine was about to overhead. This all added an extra hour to my morning trip to work, dicking around with this.

2. Upon finishing that shit, I get to the office to discover that the GS (Graphics Specialist) turned in her two weeks notice while I was gone. All in all, it's for the best. This is her first real job and so her perspective about the pros and cons of the job and people she worked with wasn't as well developed as someone who's actually been in the world for a while. But, then again, while it's no great loss to see THIS GS go, we can afford to be without A GS for about 30 seconds or our production schedule is screwed. Thankfully, there are a couple of people lined up in the wings for this job but, man, the paperwork to get anyone hired for anything is a big pain in the ass.

3. Then, in the midst of all this, one of my old teaching buddies in the English dept. called to say that he had just been put on paid administrative leave and escorted off of the campus by security. Basically, his boss decided right after he was hired that he was the sick chicken to pick on in the department and has been riding his ass ever since then. The exact incident that triggered all this today--I'm not sure exactly what happened--but I know if you push people hard enough, long enough and unfairly enough that they will finally snap.

4. The presentation to new teachers today went okay but, yet, I still have Mel(ody)'s students' group movie up on their campus to go to in half an hour. The first one they showed was Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers. If that wasn't incendiary enough, tonight they're showing The God Who Wasn't There, this whole big long thing about how Jesus is just a historical creation. Or something. I'm like, baby, you're working REALLY HARD to get the school not to throw any more part-time work your way.

Then again, after all the wild and varied shit today, I'm about ready to get tangled up in the middle of my own shit myself. You know, man?

As my hero Ronnie Dobbs would say: 

Awright.