News from the home front

[belphegor1982]

After months of procrastinating, I finally got started on one of the long HH stories I've been jotting down notes for for the past three or four months. It's going to be a longish story (about 15 chapters), slightly on the supernatural side, which is a first for me - so here's hoping I can actually finish it, which would also be a first (so far, stories exceeding 10 chapters have taken me a long, long time to write). So I'm keeping my fingers crossed :o)

I've applied for a couple of jobs for September, and I'm waiting for an answer. It's both junior high school supervisors, and I actually don't want the job - supervising ten-year-olds was stressful enough, but I'm terrified at the thought of handling fifteen-year-olds who'll be taller than me, not to mention helping them with their homework when I never understood a thing about grammar and I'm just terrible at maths. Oh, and I'd have to supervise school cafeteria, too, which means having my lunch a hour or so before the kids. The only perk in one of the jobs is that I could be in charge of the school library on Wednesday mornings. It doesn't help that I spent some of the worst years of my life in junior high school, being bullied and trying to remain as invisible as possible. Of course I've changed since then, but I simply don't want to go back. Too many bad memories.

Ah well. In the meantime, I write as much as I can to make up for future lack of time :o)

Comments

[belphegor1982.livejournal.com]

Your other school sounds nothing short of awesome! Wow :o)

To be honest, I've kind of enjoyed being a figure of authority when I worked at the primary school; it's tough to learn to be, well, tough when needs be (I discovered with horror that I was able to make a kid cry - because (s)he had misbehaved and I had to send him/her off from the library - and still maintain a firm attitude). But the thing is, when you're a supervisor, you're not a teacher, you can only give detentions (not praises when they've done well, like good marks) and it's very difficult to position yourself in the hierarchy of the school - the kids are usually much less polite (when they are at all) than to the teachers. Plus, I did it for four years, it's right there on my CV (or is it résumé?), and I'd like to move on to a more adult job. Schools generally hire university students, who then have a way to pay for their studies.

(Seriously, I can't get over how adorable your old school sounds. Although with my luck, I would probably have ended up sitting on the chocolate :P)

[runenklinge.livejournal.com]

I have to rein in myself, because I'm a kind of sarcastic and snarky person and small kids don't get that I mean well or that I just made a joke...thankfully I found that out rather sooner than later^^