for shel.

oh blogging world, how i've neglected you.

not true, actually. i started a tumblr blog too but it's not nannyish.

wow, first off on the nanny front, let me just say that three out of my four have been infected with the swine. i am PRAYING i don't get it, especially now being that i am starting a fieldwork assignment where i'll be teaching five days in the next 3 weeks. i can't skip out on any of them but if i'm sick i'd be so wary of infecting any kids! what a conundrum.

outside of nannydom, this weekend was kind of interesting... from friday to sunday i stayed at my parent's house, keeping an eye on my brother. he's thirteen so he can pretty much take care of himself, but as my mom and step-dad were away at a wedding he just didn't want to be alone overnight in an empty house. plus he needed some help delivering his papers (my LEAST favorite thing about staying at my parents house.) from sunday night to this afternoon i was dog-sitting for a friend's massive beast; she let me use her car so i dragged "the ex" out to the mall with me then treated him to dinner last night. it's still weird calling him "the ex". we're easing into "friends" i think, but there may be the possibility of total reconciliation? not sure. we spent the evening watching tv and drinking beers, and it went pretty well. it was the first time since we started hanging out again that i didn't cry. and WHY am i the one crying? i was the breaker-upper, not the breaker-uppee. oh well, who knows. i guess it's just a girl thing.

now i'm back to my regular living arrangement- the third floor of the home in which i work. latest development? i bought myself an electric teakettle (which i did not know even existed until my time in london!) and a dvd player, because the cd/dvd drive on this here powerbook has taken a shit. so i can watch a netflixed dvd OR a show on cable on the big old TV in the workout room while drinking a cup of tea i boiled the water for in my bedroom! maybe i prefer to call it "my quarters", as it sounds more victorian and romantic... i should take to calling myself a governess. (though technically i am not, as a governess is responsible for the education as well as the overall care of her charges, and my kids go to public school.) but it would be cool to cast myself as a jane eyre type.

well, it's off for tea and a bath, then preparing myself for teaching a lesson to sixth graders for my art ed. field work, then BED. and fingers crossed that the H1N1 leaves me well enough alone!