There is such a thing as too much snow...
So my last post was at the beginning of the snow storm we had, that left Mark and I stuck in our house for 8 days. We had 13 inches at least at one time. Work got canceled for both of us for at least 6 days. Luckily we just bought a new chest freezer and had gone to Costco right before, but toward the end there it was getting kinda hard, (I ran out of coffee oh no!)
It was funny, I was hoping to see at least 1 snow day this winter, not 2 weeks of it. It made Christmas feel very surreal, since we had to cancel all of our activities. There is something odd about being surrounded by a ton of snow; maybe the fact that the snow absorbs noise and makes things feel very quiet. I really like being snowed in, and actually it was good timing since it happened when school was out so it didn't impact the university as much. The only bad thing is that snow days ate up my vacation time.
January started things up again and life has been busy with classes three nights a week and work being crazy busy. The beginning of the semester is always crazy, and with my boss out on maternity leave; it was a little insane with readjusting after the snow days and catching up on stuff. It’s only now coming back to normal at work. I feel like the whole time was a blur, and now I’m getting my sanity back (what little there is).
For those of you who don’t know, Mark decided to resign from his full time job. His boss was just very unreasonable and vindictive and even though Mark is pretty laid back, it just got to the point that it was pretty intolerable. Made him sad to leave a job that he really loved other than his boss, but we agreed that no job was worth dealing with someone so bi-polar. Mark was very well liked at his job, so there were a lot of people who were sad he was leaving it. Fortunately, Mark also teaches as a part time faculty, and when his department chair found out that he would have more time available, she gave him more classes to teach for the spring term. So we plan to see how it goes with me working full time and Mark working part time for the spring, and see if we can get by with that. Being a faculty member is actually the direction that Mark was planning on going anyways, so in some ways this is a blessing in disguise if we can swing it financially. He also has a full time faculty position app in process that he applied for last fall, and he just found out he made it to stage 2 of the screening, so many he’ll have a full-time faculty position come fall 2009. We’re not holding our breath, but it’s a possibility. Mark is going to spend the next month preparing for the 4 classes he’ll be teaching in the spring, and also converting our upstairs nook area into a home office for himself since as a part time faculty he doesn’t have an office at work. Surviving on 1.5 is half exciting and half scary at the same time. We’ll see how it goes…
It was funny, I was hoping to see at least 1 snow day this winter, not 2 weeks of it. It made Christmas feel very surreal, since we had to cancel all of our activities. There is something odd about being surrounded by a ton of snow; maybe the fact that the snow absorbs noise and makes things feel very quiet. I really like being snowed in, and actually it was good timing since it happened when school was out so it didn't impact the university as much. The only bad thing is that snow days ate up my vacation time.
January started things up again and life has been busy with classes three nights a week and work being crazy busy. The beginning of the semester is always crazy, and with my boss out on maternity leave; it was a little insane with readjusting after the snow days and catching up on stuff. It’s only now coming back to normal at work. I feel like the whole time was a blur, and now I’m getting my sanity back (what little there is).
For those of you who don’t know, Mark decided to resign from his full time job. His boss was just very unreasonable and vindictive and even though Mark is pretty laid back, it just got to the point that it was pretty intolerable. Made him sad to leave a job that he really loved other than his boss, but we agreed that no job was worth dealing with someone so bi-polar. Mark was very well liked at his job, so there were a lot of people who were sad he was leaving it. Fortunately, Mark also teaches as a part time faculty, and when his department chair found out that he would have more time available, she gave him more classes to teach for the spring term. So we plan to see how it goes with me working full time and Mark working part time for the spring, and see if we can get by with that. Being a faculty member is actually the direction that Mark was planning on going anyways, so in some ways this is a blessing in disguise if we can swing it financially. He also has a full time faculty position app in process that he applied for last fall, and he just found out he made it to stage 2 of the screening, so many he’ll have a full-time faculty position come fall 2009. We’re not holding our breath, but it’s a possibility. Mark is going to spend the next month preparing for the 4 classes he’ll be teaching in the spring, and also converting our upstairs nook area into a home office for himself since as a part time faculty he doesn’t have an office at work. Surviving on 1.5 is half exciting and half scary at the same time. We’ll see how it goes…
posted by Judy | 12:28 PM
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Follow-up on Mark's job:
I didn't get the full-time teaching position with PCC. I got pretty close, but there was someone else that had more college teaching experience on more subject areas than me.
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