Perfume addict

I always grew up with Avon. My mentor from church sold it. (It is a catalog with beauty products marketed by independent sales people, like Mary Kay or Tupperware, but cheaper.)

Now there is an Avon Lady at school, and I find myself buying their perfumes.
I love smelling good, and to me it is even more important than looking good. This equal very few lipstick purchases and quiet a few 5fl. oz sample perfume purchases.

Here's what I like:
Rare Gold- Nice and warm with orange and amber, a good winter sent but too heavy for spring.
Crystal Aura- Floral and Grapefruity-maybe a tich too girly for me, but other wise a good fit.
It looks like I like a citrus underlay!

Scents I don't like:
Imari- heavier, traditional, darker, makes me smell older than middle aged
Sweet Honesty-I recently bought this looking for a good spring perfume. Not my thing. Smells like baby power more than anything else. It's more of a "Oh, you are wearing perfume" than a "Oh, you smell good" scent. This was also my first perfume I ever got, so when I wear it, I feellike I'm twelve again.

Scents I do like but am too poor to buy:
Tommy Girl-lighter and cooler, with not too much sweet, feels like a light teal blue
Tribute by Mary Kay- A Dry rose scent good for fall and late summer. I had a bottle, but it disappeared

Scents I will probably get in this next catalog:
Haiku I'll let you know how these smell
Dreamlife


DO YOU HAVE ANY PERFUME SUGGESTIONS?
I'M LOOKING FOR A GOOD, CHEAP SPRING PERFUME

One more month

Ahhhh....
The weekend is never long enough.
the highlight was going to the butterfly house.
Thousands of Butterflies from around the world zooming around in between people.
The only downside was that it was very hot and humid and while we could have stayed for hours, we ended up staying for only 45 minutes or so.

I have two interviews this week. One for the Washington School District west of STL, and in Herculaneum at the Dunklin School district. Dunklin is pretty small-their graduating class is around 125, so it would be a nice, small school feel. I'd be teaching chemistry though...

Washington is about the size of my high school, but further away from StL.

hopefully I get a job offer from one of them, and my life will be coasting untill the end of the sc`hool year.

PASSED!

and I so wanna pass out....
Off to Mustang Sally's where I'm going to drink like a crazy science teacher!

THANK THE LORD...

(And a fun weekend ahead too!)

Added Stress

On Thursday, my adviser from Truman is coming.
After his visit, my life gets a little easier or it becomes a living hell.

Let me back up a little. This is my masters degree adviser to finish my Masters of Arts in Education degree. In Early March he expressed to me that he felt that I was an incompetent teacher and didn't know if I would pass my internship. He also hinted that he would not be able to write me a positive letter of recommendation. As a result, I've not communicated with him on what schools I'm applying for a job for. Usually the master's adviser plays a key role as a reference and advocate for job placement. Going at the job hunt alone may raise some questions, but I feel it is better to go at the job hunt alone than risk him sabotaging me.

Anyway, If I don't pass the internship, the Masters Degree and long term teacher certification falls apart. I either have to go to another school (probably Webster) to finish my degree, or say goodbye to the thousands of dollars I spent at Truman and embark on a new career.

We have block scheduling at **HS, and I thought he was coming on a green day. I look at the calendar and he is coming on a Black day. I've be working with both classes to improve items on the checklist that I need to complete before he comes. But I've been super focusing on my green days. (The students are more malleable that day too. )

Now he's going to see my worst students and where I haven't focused as much on classroom management.

Oh god.
Oh God.
SHIT

Getting nervous

So, I went to the job fair at Truman last Friday. I went to do some preliminary interviews. Talk to people, shook hands and wore my lucky purple suit.
I've received one "We appreciate your application, but we are sorry to inform you...."
and the sound of crickets from the others.

I'm getting very nervous. To the point I'm hoarding every penny in case I have to make a living subbing next year.

One lucky school District needs to ask for a second interview soon.....

Or things are starting to look very scary.

Crafty

My chinchillas are simply doted on. the have treats, they have toys and now the have a fleece hammock courtesy of me.
I originally saw the hammocks on the forum Chins and Quills and was going to buy a double one for fourteen dollars. But I looked at them closely and decided that I could probably reproduce them.
$7 dollars of fleece, needle and thread later my chins are cozying up around neon dots with a black background.

It was ve3ry enjoyable to sew the thing, and a great way to deal with stress. I think I'll be sewing a lot this summer with my free time.

Go Rico!

I watched the CARDS win their first game! Wednesday a friend came across free tickets, and I dropped everything and had the time of my life! Went to the game and the excitement was electric. thousands of people super excited to be there, all having a great time, and all wearing Cardinal red. The stadium was enormous huge and beautiful, so much history and tradition. I went with people who slept, eat and breath Cardinals baseball, and so through the entire game was a stream of anticdotes, story, history and trivia coming at me. I loved the barkers: people selling beer, hot chocolate, cotton candy and of course: peanuts n' popcorn.

Every demographic of STL was present-even little elementary schoolers sang take me out to the ball game during a time out. It was cool, and reminded me of the "snap" of football weather

Best of all: I got to see my assistant principal on the "kiss cam"!

(Rico Washington has worked his way through the minors for 11 years until this season. I got to see his first hit in major league baseball. HOME RUN!!)

Le Employment Drama Lama comes to visit

So, yeah....
I've decided that it is very unlikely that the school board members of the district that I work for read my blog. I'm pretty sure that the principal of the high school has better things to do.
With that in mind:

Gah! **HS has failed to hire me as a teacher. Which means I will be searching for a job next year. It all started when I was called to the principals office and asked for a letter of resignation on his desk at the end of the day. He very kindly explained that since I was an intern, I needed to resign from my internship position so the position could be open for next year, for me or some one else to be hired to as a teacher of record. He encouraged me to to get my application in before spring break. (This is the Thursday before) okay... not as big a deal as it seemed. Pretty shocking to be told that and it shook me a little, but it makes sense and I was hopeful I would be hired as a teacher of record at **HS next year.

Turns out that the district interviewed and hired everyone before my application was even completed. The deadline for the application that was posted was in May.

Turned out that two of the positions filled were the principals' friend and the husband of a teacher who had been working there for years. (Speculation ONLY!) Don't look at me, I heard it in the teacher's lounge!

I was really looking forward to not having to move next year. I was looking forward to knowing the ropes a little bit. I was looking forward to settling down.

Now I have to deal with the same question that I had to answer from last year. Where do I wasnt to work? Do I want to go back to Kansas? Do I want to be employed at a big school district or a small one?

I feel sad becasue I was looking forward to watching my students grow up. Some of them are lookign forward to having me as a teacher next year. I like my colleagues.

I'm not looking forward to having to acclimate myself to a new town, apratement, school, and curriculum.

But that's life, and your role with the punches.

But boy howdy, tenadcity better freakin' win a fight!