Missing you

So I miss you all like whoa. And I know I didn't see you all much, but I feel like this time difference is really getting me down. I'm used to getting occasional phone calls and gmail chats with you girls, but now it's not happening so much. I also miss having a real life/job.

I don't really do all that much around here. The process of becoming a library volunteer is ridiculous and convoluted and even though I directly email the person in charge of the section I'm supposed to be volunteering with all I got was a response saying that she'd keep her fingers crossed that I could become one of their volunteers. Geez, I thought she was in charge so why do her fingers need to be crossed? Plus there's my whole "nannying" gig. Read: BABYSITTER. 3 to 4 hours a day, 5 days a week with one 9 year old boy who tends to throw temper tantrums like he's 3. While he does have autism, I am told it is very high functioning and he doesn't even know he has it, so I don't think that throwing yourself on the floor and whining when your babysitter offers to help you do your math homework is the way most 9 year olds act. Anyway, it's frustrating because really all I do with him is watch Spongebob (the same episodes over and over) and get his homework done, and then fight with him about whether he is allowed to jump on his dad's bed, or play with the hose in the backyard, or eat 3 cookies for snack, or roll himself into a blanket taco and try to attack me (ok, that was kind of funny).

It seems like getting into the Multnomah Library system is not going to be a possibility, mainly because they don't really seem to put any real value on the MLS. For example, often the branches only have one MLS and it's usually their Youth Librarian, who also must be bilingual. Not even their branch managers usually have MLS's. So I guess we're going to have to look elsewhere for jobs or something.

I don't know, so anyway, things are going somewhere here, I guess, I'm just not sure where. Taking the road less traveled is not as easy as Frost made it sound.

Please, call or write.

much love,

Court