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summercomfort) wrote2026-03-04 11:37 pm
summercomfort) wrote2026-03-04 11:37 pm
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2 weeks since my last update??
The drive to snow took longer than expected, but the harder part was actually finding a public place for the kids to actually do snow play. We did end up finding somewhere, so next time wouldn't be as painful.
The rest of the weekend was shepherding the child through a lot more math homework, which is stressful as always, but spouse was really supportive when I hit my breaking point, and has put a me-only day on the calendar, which I forgot about, but is apparently coming up this Sunday! I'm very hyped.
Last week was a blur -- did a world cultures day session about the Spring Gala, and then child was sick Wed-Friday, so I worked from home on Friday morning. Did a lot of trip planning, which was good. More math homework and Chinese homework was done. We did meet with a neuro-psych person who will be evaluating that child, so that's very exciting. And last weekend I first stayed home with sick child, and then on Sunday we had a lantern festival taiko performance.
This week ... wow, I was hoping to catch up a bit, but instead we had 3 interviews for 2 of the positions that we have open. And each interview involved an hour-long demo lesson, another hour of interview, and then another hour of debrief, so that's like, 9 extra hours spent this week that I'd planned to do grading and other prep work. Good news is that I think we probably don't have to do any more (fingers crossed). The schedule this week is just all screwy and I feel like I'm having to do a lot of last-minute adjustments. Hopefully next week will be better.
I've also fallen into a Stardew Valley hole this past week, but I'm finally done with Year 1, and there's only 3 more items I need to finish the Community Center, so I feel pretty good. I'm at the stage where there aren't that many immediate tasks to do on the farm. I guess I can go mining or fishing, but I'm not interested in going into the skull cavern or the quarry, so it's mostly just re-mining levels that I've already mined. Oh! I was really stressed about getting a sturgeon because I'm not good enough at fishing to actually do it that way, so I was checking the traveling cart every Friday and Sunday, and really just resigning myself to maybe getting uber-mastery of fishing in order to get the deluxe iridium rod..... and then I pet my cat and she gave me a sturgeon! It was the best. Good job, cat in the game. :3 But anyway, I'm now on Year 2 Spring Day 3, and have finally emerged from the fugue state. :P
The drive to snow took longer than expected, but the harder part was actually finding a public place for the kids to actually do snow play. We did end up finding somewhere, so next time wouldn't be as painful.
The rest of the weekend was shepherding the child through a lot more math homework, which is stressful as always, but spouse was really supportive when I hit my breaking point, and has put a me-only day on the calendar, which I forgot about, but is apparently coming up this Sunday! I'm very hyped.
Last week was a blur -- did a world cultures day session about the Spring Gala, and then child was sick Wed-Friday, so I worked from home on Friday morning. Did a lot of trip planning, which was good. More math homework and Chinese homework was done. We did meet with a neuro-psych person who will be evaluating that child, so that's very exciting. And last weekend I first stayed home with sick child, and then on Sunday we had a lantern festival taiko performance.
This week ... wow, I was hoping to catch up a bit, but instead we had 3 interviews for 2 of the positions that we have open. And each interview involved an hour-long demo lesson, another hour of interview, and then another hour of debrief, so that's like, 9 extra hours spent this week that I'd planned to do grading and other prep work. Good news is that I think we probably don't have to do any more (fingers crossed). The schedule this week is just all screwy and I feel like I'm having to do a lot of last-minute adjustments. Hopefully next week will be better.
I've also fallen into a Stardew Valley hole this past week, but I'm finally done with Year 1, and there's only 3 more items I need to finish the Community Center, so I feel pretty good. I'm at the stage where there aren't that many immediate tasks to do on the farm. I guess I can go mining or fishing, but I'm not interested in going into the skull cavern or the quarry, so it's mostly just re-mining levels that I've already mined. Oh! I was really stressed about getting a sturgeon because I'm not good enough at fishing to actually do it that way, so I was checking the traveling cart every Friday and Sunday, and really just resigning myself to maybe getting uber-mastery of fishing in order to get the deluxe iridium rod..... and then I pet my cat and she gave me a sturgeon! It was the best. Good job, cat in the game. :3 But anyway, I'm now on Year 2 Spring Day 3, and have finally emerged from the fugue state. :P