magid

I'm reading parts of the California Education Code for work. Excerpts include guidelines for portraying men and women (equal time, not always in stereotypical roles, etc), ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, and senior citizens. Other sections prohibit most uses of corporate logos, encourage teaching about ecology, also religious diversity, the dangers of substance abuse, and the role of entrepreneurs (!).

Each topic above has a separate section about it. However, the lawmakers in California saw fit in Section 60042 to group "Thrift, Fire Prevention, and Humane Treatment of Animals and People." Eh?

A line that read "Simplify each ratio." in one round of proof somehow became
"implify each ratio."

So of course I imagine the ratio with pointy ears and a long pointy tail...

[rant] There are far too many really horrible things on these pages, things that shouldn't be wrong, that were right last time around, and it's late in the game, too, too late for major screw uppage... [/rant]≤

a cow orker just pointed out a fox right outside my window (!), the same one who spotted the groundhog and the skunk earlier... he claims not to be working much.... (must be an epidemic)

yesterday someone at work announced her retirement, and there is much shuffling of roles in the wake of this. now it looks like i'll be put on projects that are not with the person i can't stand to work for :-)

yesterday's physical therapy started with a bath. i got to put my hand in lightly warm water doing my stretches as the water jets helped me. 1st water in over a month on my hand, and it felt wonderful! the therapist was pleased w/ the progress i'd made, too.

dinner with cthulhia and queue, before going to zzbottom's. it struck me as funny to be in a room where all but 1 person had an lj, and talking about the social aspects thereof (the word of the day seems to be thereof.), when we all could've been having a Real Life [TM].

i was highly entertained by the video of zzbottom and awfief on local communinty television - the host was incredibly bad, to say the least.

and coming home with tigerbright on the T we went through stops i don't think i'd been through before (also nice to have time to chat.).

oh, and the organic spelt bread from tj's is pretty good, if a bit sweet for bread.

i had my first chametz mid-morning: a bowl of grape nuts with vanilla spy milk (thanks, queue!)... strange how it didn't feel very different than (from? why can i not keep this in my head?) what i've been eating this week. tonight i'll have actual bread, though. i wonder if it'll taste particularly good?

wildlife notes from the office: a bunch of watched a groundhog from the windows today (i'm glad i don't overlook the parking lot). it was just hanging out for a long while, not far from the hole a skunk apparently lives/lived in. (i haven't seen it.).
the ducks are gone from the tiny pond by muzi ford.

one of the pots of scallions that died in my office & i hadn't gotten around to throwing out yet is making a comeback, with green shoots a couple of inches tall already (this without water in months.)

quiet day in the office. a day of getting small things done, but no one thing i can point to & say it's done. atleast i can bring work home to do over the weekend/do monday from home, so i don't have to take a day off for the pin removal/start of therapy. already one of the boss-people asked when she can move me onto another (typing-heavier) project. feh. therapy will be weeks...
(really, typing one-handed is getting faster. the skills i wish i didn't have to improve...)

i was already having a cranky, tired sort of day when a boss came in & said i'd have my (annual) review with the dept head at 2 pm. 2? but i leave at 1 on fridays. oh. so then i was to go to her office in half an hour. during which time i didn't do more than skim the papers she'd given me before the head of my book comes in & starts jabbering about the next lesson.

so, i go in, & we talk of other (work) things, then get down to the review.
what do i hear? well, nothing overtly negative, but no positive strokes, either. (the writeup was done by someone who i worked for for a month last year). i am told that the schedules have changed, and so i won't be switched to working on the teacher books, perhaps ever. this was what was going to get me away from the heinous head of book i can't stand to work with. i'd complained about working with her (tactfully. really.), and supposedly this was the solution. guess not.

i ask about whether i'll be training more people next year - i trained 7 people last year, and it took time. and this is what i hear: (a) i should've only trained people on my book, (b) i took it on myself to train more people, (c) i should learn to close my door & not help people. this from the woman who, when i said it was a lot to train more people, said i should put it on my fucking year-end review.

and she points out that the review is for "exempt employees", which means that i'm exempt from overtime. not working it, of course, just being paid for it. and how that's one of the disadvantages of being on staff. (fyi, she's a total workaholic). so the implication is there that i don't work enough. (i don't know if some of that is the 1 pm leave time, but i've had that since i started 9 years ago, already. shabbat-stuff, etc.)

FUCK OFF.

not that i said that. i couldn't figure it all out so quickly what i should say, however, so i was quiet. which was probably a mistake.


time to work more on the resume. i feel they're using me as much as possible, but don't support me at all.
there are a couple of people in my office i'd miss if i left, but i've started to see them sometimes outside the office.

any suggestions of what to do next, in this cruddy job market?

is being asked to go to a conference of the national catholic educators association because it doesn't run over shabbat (unlike the other group's conferences i'm likely to be sent to), and realizing i can't because it's on passover (into the last days, days i don't work).

with my files. if you're commenting on my edit, write the comments on the hard copy, or type in new paragraphs if you want, but don't take a copy of my file and type in the new stuff over it - then i have to look at each & every word to see if it's changed... at least she didn't put it on the server in the revised version, but it's still damn annoying. why can't she see this?

"is it bad if a lesson is not in the new template?" he asks.

"bad" doesn't enter the equation. there's a new template, you get the document into it, sooner rather than later if possible. definitely by the time the final edit goes out, and yes, before the first edit goes out if you're in the midst of it.