Monday, August 15, 2005

Maybe one day I'll post a picture of Piper too.

I lied in my last post. Well, not exactly lied. But I was deceitfully cheerful about our second house guest. The truth is, he told us originally that he would be staying at our studio apartment for one night. Yesterday was night #4. I have an irrational fear that he will never leave, that he will continue to stay at our apartment and just commute to Connecticut for classes. Which may not be such an irrational fear -- Dave has a history of behaving in a strange and illogical manner.

I guess the real problem is that Jason is too nice. If Dave wanted to stay with us for another year and a half, I'm afraid that Jason will just let him, rather than get into a confrontation about it. So I'd have to be the "bad cop" or whatever ... and I don't like confrontation either.

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Another picture of Rue on her fancy dancy cat sofa!

The pre-service NYC teaching training is finally over, but I have yet to be placed in a school. I sent out a bunch of resumes last Thursday, but haven't heard back from anyone yet. Will I end up in dreaded Bushwick after all (shudder)? I don't want to have to teach at that awful middle school where kids bring in knives, and the librarian was recently punched in the stomach.

My brother stayed with J and I for a little over a week, which was great. We ate a lot of good food (Dumpling Man!) and even went to a Mall in Elmhurst! Our other houseguest, Dave, is still around, though he goes to Connecticut every so often for grad school business.

No writing at all. :(