THIS IS AN UPDATE DIARY
ON MY
TEACHING, CRITTERS, AND NEEDS
TEACHING:
Iāve continued to work as a substitute teacher. Since I began working in the local High School district, Iāve been getting a lot of jobs in either High or Middle schools although I still do take Elementary School assignments. Most of the districts I work in are on the same computer job registration system. Which school I work at is mostly a matter of which jobs appear online. Iām signed up for many jobs for the next few months, and I almost always am able to get a job on a day Iām available, with the exceptions of the starts and ends of the school year. Thatās probably because few teachers are going to be out for administrative reasons like meetings, training, et cetera, at the beginning and ends of the year, so jobs at the start and end of the year are usually for illness or maternity and there arenāt as many of those types of substitute teaching jobs.
I donāt make any more money from working in the High School district because I was working almost every day before in the Elementary School District, but I am exposed to a wider age range of students.Ā
One thing I should have expected, but didnāt, was the reactions of students I had over the past few years when they were in 5th and 6th grades and now theyāre seeing Mister Green in a new school and they donāt quite know what to think.Ā I often ask my classes āwho here has had Mister Green as a substitute teacher beforeā and usually several hands, at least, go up. Iāll then ask āwhat school were you at when I was there?ā and there are usually two, three, or even five or six different schools listed among the students present.Ā I then point out that many of them have something in common that they didnāt know, and I wonder how many of them later compare stories about Mister Green at their various separate elementary schools.
I am in the process of putting in my application for the teaching program at CSU Monterey Bay.Ā
In two weeks I will be taking the CSET Teaching test which I have to pass in order to get into a credential. if I fail one or more parts of the CSET, I have until sometime in April to retake and pass it. I will have to drive a long way to take the tests. Parts 1 and 3 I will take in Campbell, California, about 100 miles away, and part 2 I have to take in Fresno, about 300 miles round trip, and so far away that I am planning on getting a motel room unless I can find someone who will let me stay with them either on a spare bed or let me pitch my cot in their place.Ā
If I donāt manage to pass the CSET and also get admitted to the credential program, I actually really like being a substitute teacher. The only problem is it doesnāt pay a full living wage for me and thus the need for supplemental income. I donāt think I can rely on periodic campaigns, so I hope my Patreon and other projects via Kickstarter and elsewhere can provide me with a living wage without the need to ask for unearned gifts.
#JTGCritters:
Delight is still gone.Ā
I am still very sad.
I have hope that she will return one day, but itās unlikely.Ā
I talked about Delightās disappearance in these Diaries HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.
Either:Ā
* Delight may be dead somewhere and her body has not been recovered to find her chip and/or collar with name/address/phone/email tag and contact me.
* Delight may be still running out feral, somehow surviving by eating whatever she can find, and could yet one day be recovered, alive or dead.
* Delight may be living with someone who has decided to ignore herĀ name/address/phone/email tag and keep her. Delight is such a lovable friendly puppy that is someone has her, she is likely cuddling and kissing, and I hope sheās loved and appreciated and well fed and will live a long happy life and maybe someday will return to me.
* Other things I havenāt fully considered enough to write them down now.
Delightās loss has been a big psychic hit. Her loss has triggered grief and anxiety that have been building higher and higher but unexpressed finally broke free. Itās as if Delight broke down my emotional dams and the floods have flowed.Ā
I have had several existential threats recently and I am not too far from losing everything depending on how the near future will go. While I have had people help me financially over the past couple of years, I am in my physical world alone. I am so busy with work that I donāt have many social contacts outside of various social media. While I am grateful for the help, and I feel Iām developing some good relationships with people Iāve never met face-to-face (FTF), and may never meet face-to-face (FTF), I am alone, and thatās perhaps thatās why Delight triggered such a strong reaction in me.Ā
I have been thinking about Delight, and how I could have been better to her, and every regret I have when I was too busy had pushed her aside, or got mad at her because sheād chewed up something, or pooped in the wrong place, or all the times I didnāt cuddle her enough, and so I cuddle her four orphaned puppies.Ā
The loss of Delight has me thinking about my late father, who will be gone four years on May 4, which is also the 25 anniversary of my cancer surgery and resulting permanent colostomy.
I have been thinking about all that Iāve done over my life and I wonder if Iāve justified my existence and the nature and duration of my future existence both before and after my ultimate biological cessation of existence.
#NEEDS:
Lastly, hereās the Status of my current and almost complete February 2019 needs campaign.
This campaign is, briefly, to compensate for my lack of work as a substitute teacher during Winter Break and during my recent hospitalization and recovery from a kidney stone (a situation that is still ongoing; I have an appointment to remove a kidney stent in April during Spring Break).
The original diary is HERE & my Recent Diaries are HERE.
My future needs, barring any unexpected financial crises, will involve a campaign in May to compensate for April Spring Break unemployment, and a campaign for summer expense, including living expenses and, if all goes well, my tuition for the first summer semester of classes to get my teaching credential. More on that later.
Running Total:
$1200 goal;
$1155 raised thus far;
$45 to go toĀ W00T!!!
Links to Support are at end of this Diary.
Thank you,
#jtg
P.S. Sending me pet supplies via myĀ Amazon Pet WishlistĀ helps me because I don't have to expend $funds on pet supplies.
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