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Productive...or Lack Thereof...
Nov. 16th, 2012 11:56 amWell let’s see… it’s really been September since my last life update, other than pics of my house after the fire, and since I had a request for “how things are going” I figured it was time for an update.
My mom has been in the hospital since September the 18th. She has undergone numerous surgeries, one extremely major one, and is finally (we think) on the road to recovery. She is getting one of the two wound vacs she has removed today. We expect her to be moved to rehab sometime next week. She will be on a feeding tube until sometime after Christmas, probably the first of the year. There has been a lot, and I do mean A LOT of prayer, going on for my mom and I believe this is one of the reasons she is finally on the mend.
Now onto our house. Insurance is taking care of the rebuild since we have a replacement policy. If you or your parents don’t know much about your policy/coverage I highly recommend looking into it. Replacement means that insurance has to replace things for the amount they were at the time they were bought, not what they were worth at the time whatever something happened. Insurance had hired this one company to do the rebuild but this company doesn’t pay overtime. The boys got paid from the time they left Louisville to when they got to us, usually 2.5 hours later…which is crazy because it only takes about 45 min to an hour to get to Louisville from us, so they must have stopped somewhere along the way. They would work about an hour and then take 1.5 hours for lunch, work a couple of hours more and then head back to Louisville to be back by 5pm. This… was not working to say the least. It took them 3 weeks just to frame the garage! Something that should only take a day.
So the big boss man came, saw their progress (or lack thereof) and hired an independent guy to come in to do the work. This guy has brought a camper for he and his boys to stay in during the week and they work from sunup to sundown, though they had lights on last night and were still working when I got home from work around 9:30. They got the roof completely off a couple of days ago so hopefully it won’t take as long for these guys to make progress.
Work, lovely, lovely work. Please note my sarcasm. Usually, I enjoy my job. I don’t love it because I hate teaching but I do love the paycheck… Last night was not a good night. Tuesdays and Thursdays are my longest days out of the week. I get to work around 9:00, teach class at 9:30, might have a meeting or two from 11:00-12:00, teach class at 2:30, and then host study tables from 6:30-8:30. Well, last night we moved my study table location so that we would all, with the exception of one other PSL, be centralized. They didn’t give us keys to the house we were in so around 7:45 we had to call one of the supervisors who lives close to come lock the place up so we could leave. He said to call him about 15 min before we were ready to leave but we called early, just to give him a heads up. Study tables are over, as I mentioned, at 8:30. Since we called at 7:45 that gave him 45 min to finish whatever he was doing at home and get there. At 8:30 he was not there, 8:40 not there, 8:50 still not there, and by 9:00 we were pissed. Not to mention he wouldn’t answer our phone calls or texts. So we tried calling other supervisors, who also would not answer their phones. The campus police basically told us that we weren’t on campus anymore so… tough luck. I finally got ahold of the secretary to works for my boss and she told us to just close the house up and she would come in a few to lock up. So that’s what we did. Just one of the joys of working for this campus/program.
This is the same job that I had over the summer so I knew going into it how much work was involved. But… given that the fall semester is longer than that of the summer you pretty much have to double the workload. I have 4 reports due a week, plus lesson planning, making assignments, and posting helpful things that my students probably don’t even use. It’s very time consuming and by the time Thursday rolls around I’m exhausted. I usually leave myself open to sub on Fridays, since I don’t teach on Fridays, but since September I have only gotten one half day of subbing in because I have just been too tired…
My tiredness has been my excuse for not writing more, plus a fair amount of writers block. I’ve really wanted to work on this Jasper/Seth multi-chapter I’ve been planning but I believe my notebook with my notes for it was packed up and put in storage by the cleaning company that cleaned our house out after the fire. I also want to finish A Couple Takes Two by the end of the year. I don’t know if this will happen or not, we’ll see. 40 some pages in I finally got to the consensual sex and writers block hits with a vengeance. I’m trying my damnest not to force it because then it will suck, so I’ve just been writing four or five lines here and there, just to say I’ve done something.
So… there’s my life in a nutshell right now. I’m off now to be productive and run tons of errands!
My mom has been in the hospital since September the 18th. She has undergone numerous surgeries, one extremely major one, and is finally (we think) on the road to recovery. She is getting one of the two wound vacs she has removed today. We expect her to be moved to rehab sometime next week. She will be on a feeding tube until sometime after Christmas, probably the first of the year. There has been a lot, and I do mean A LOT of prayer, going on for my mom and I believe this is one of the reasons she is finally on the mend.
Now onto our house. Insurance is taking care of the rebuild since we have a replacement policy. If you or your parents don’t know much about your policy/coverage I highly recommend looking into it. Replacement means that insurance has to replace things for the amount they were at the time they were bought, not what they were worth at the time whatever something happened. Insurance had hired this one company to do the rebuild but this company doesn’t pay overtime. The boys got paid from the time they left Louisville to when they got to us, usually 2.5 hours later…which is crazy because it only takes about 45 min to an hour to get to Louisville from us, so they must have stopped somewhere along the way. They would work about an hour and then take 1.5 hours for lunch, work a couple of hours more and then head back to Louisville to be back by 5pm. This… was not working to say the least. It took them 3 weeks just to frame the garage! Something that should only take a day.
So the big boss man came, saw their progress (or lack thereof) and hired an independent guy to come in to do the work. This guy has brought a camper for he and his boys to stay in during the week and they work from sunup to sundown, though they had lights on last night and were still working when I got home from work around 9:30. They got the roof completely off a couple of days ago so hopefully it won’t take as long for these guys to make progress.
Work, lovely, lovely work. Please note my sarcasm. Usually, I enjoy my job. I don’t love it because I hate teaching but I do love the paycheck… Last night was not a good night. Tuesdays and Thursdays are my longest days out of the week. I get to work around 9:00, teach class at 9:30, might have a meeting or two from 11:00-12:00, teach class at 2:30, and then host study tables from 6:30-8:30. Well, last night we moved my study table location so that we would all, with the exception of one other PSL, be centralized. They didn’t give us keys to the house we were in so around 7:45 we had to call one of the supervisors who lives close to come lock the place up so we could leave. He said to call him about 15 min before we were ready to leave but we called early, just to give him a heads up. Study tables are over, as I mentioned, at 8:30. Since we called at 7:45 that gave him 45 min to finish whatever he was doing at home and get there. At 8:30 he was not there, 8:40 not there, 8:50 still not there, and by 9:00 we were pissed. Not to mention he wouldn’t answer our phone calls or texts. So we tried calling other supervisors, who also would not answer their phones. The campus police basically told us that we weren’t on campus anymore so… tough luck. I finally got ahold of the secretary to works for my boss and she told us to just close the house up and she would come in a few to lock up. So that’s what we did. Just one of the joys of working for this campus/program.
This is the same job that I had over the summer so I knew going into it how much work was involved. But… given that the fall semester is longer than that of the summer you pretty much have to double the workload. I have 4 reports due a week, plus lesson planning, making assignments, and posting helpful things that my students probably don’t even use. It’s very time consuming and by the time Thursday rolls around I’m exhausted. I usually leave myself open to sub on Fridays, since I don’t teach on Fridays, but since September I have only gotten one half day of subbing in because I have just been too tired…
My tiredness has been my excuse for not writing more, plus a fair amount of writers block. I’ve really wanted to work on this Jasper/Seth multi-chapter I’ve been planning but I believe my notebook with my notes for it was packed up and put in storage by the cleaning company that cleaned our house out after the fire. I also want to finish A Couple Takes Two by the end of the year. I don’t know if this will happen or not, we’ll see. 40 some pages in I finally got to the consensual sex and writers block hits with a vengeance. I’m trying my damnest not to force it because then it will suck, so I’ve just been writing four or five lines here and there, just to say I’ve done something.
So… there’s my life in a nutshell right now. I’m off now to be productive and run tons of errands!
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