Sunday, November 06, 2005

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!

As usual, my favorite day of the week.

This morning I had a couple of new songs to learn, one that was introduced last week when I was gone. The other one had an extremely busy and prominent piano part that I had to concentrate on pretty hard in order to approximate it. I think I did okay, but I look forward to doing it more times in the future so I can get better at it and so I won't have to think so hard while I'm playing it. I felt rather distracted and disconnected, having to concentrate on the music so much. I'm grateful that I don't rely on Sunday mornings for my personal worship "fix." For me, my times of personal worship usually happen in the car!

We took Amy to lunch at Applebees, and waited FOREVER for the food to arrive. That happened the last time we went out to lunch, too -- except then it was at Okoboji Grill. I guess they're having trouble staffing restaurants or something.

Speaking of staffing troubles, the Des Moines school district seems to be suffering from a severe shortage of substitute teachers. Can I just say here that I think it's absolutely idiotic that Iowa requires substitute teachers to hold a teaching certificate? If they've got a teaching certificate, they're likely to be actually teaching on a full-time basis, don't you think? Anyway, things are super-bad right now, because a lot of people are sick or have sick kids. We're having to give up our planning times to cover classes because there just aren't enough subs.

On that note, I'm actually considering the possibility of doing full-time subbing rather than being a SPED teacher. They pay $100 a day, and if I need to take the kids to the doctor, I don't have to accept work that day. No paperwork to keep up with, no parents to deal with. I'm not sure if insurance is available to subs, but it wouldn't matter because we could just switch back to Rick's insurance if need be.

I don't know. It's an option. I have lots of options. For now, I'll keep doing what I'm doing until God tells me the next thing to do.

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