Pulling the plug on the summer job...

Well, I just had to; the long hours of constant sitting were giving me hip-pains, and getting up to walk around the building every hour or so was providing less and less relief. Finally, having eclipsed my calculated "drop-dead" date for summer earnings, I went in this morning and submitted my final time-sheet.

They are great folks, and very cool to work for, but that hip (and other problems arising from long hours sitting, best left undescribed!) compelled me to stick to my guns and give it up. And they were totally cool about it-I was just summer temp help, I was due to leave very shortly anyway, so they just wished me well and shook my hand. Good people.

Now, as long as I keep my head on straight and my belt a bit tight, I should be free to do as I will for the rest of the summer break. And there are plenty of no-cost options for summer entertainment for me; I've been missing some free training at the district's Learning Center that I'll be going to now, and I've got a boat-load of hobby-work here at home to perform, plus more tape-rendering, writing, and assorted projects.

As Don Juan said, "Life is sweet, the little price we have to pay for it is a joke."

Heck, I'm even going to go into the school a few days and help my full-time partner in getting things ready for the start of classes...why not? I'll be doing it for the fun of it! That says a lot about my job with the school: I love it so much, I'm going in just for the pleasure of being there and doing things on my own time, the way I want to do them, so I can enjoy things being right when I have to work on them this fall. *sigh* I've waited all my life for a job I like this much!