March 4, 2007
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Two of my roommates moved out this week; another new one is due any day. He will be my sixth roommate since I moved to LA in September. I guess I have to start reminding myself that stability is just an illusion.
It looks like I’m approved for tutoring, but I can’t get into training for a couple of weeks. Plus, I need to get a TB test or get my former dr. in Miami to fax results from the last one I had. If they don’t send me to teach English to East LA gangs, it could really help my finances and spirits. I always have enjoyed tutoring, and this pays $16-20/hour. I hope to do it after my current day job and on Saturdays, 15 hours or so per week. One of the target communities is close to the town where I work, which seems ideal. If it works out, I’ll finally be able to relax a bit and enjoy southern california. I bought a national parks pass at Thanksgiving to enter the Grand Canyon, and I’d like to get some more use out of that piece of plastic. I hear there are giant redwoods and other interesting sites out here…
Oh, and my roommate/landlord finally got another car this week, so things are sliding back towards “normal” at home. Hoping to get back to writing later today–after sleep, laundry, and grocery shopping. Exciting, I know. See you around the xangaverse…
Comments (7)
Wow, it sounds like you are one very busy person. I hope all goes well with the tutoring and I hope you get stable roommate(s)soon. Take care and good luck on the writing, too!
Yay for a new job and more money!!! I hope it’s a fun gig, NOT gangs.
One plus for the roomie changes is that if you get one you’re not happy about, at least they seem to be rotating out regularly!
Wow that is a lot of change for you….so many roomates, somehow it seems like it is a rather interesting way to live, I have had such a secluded life, and have gotten rather comfortable…somehow that way of life sounds sooo metro-social, sort of appealing…I picture you walking to get groceries and taking a bus here and there and riding a bike ’round town like they do in Amsterdam.
eek. that many roommates… that’d be nerve wracking. hope you do get a good job tutoring, and that you can go see some more state parks. i really should do more of that myself.
I think by this time I wouldn’t even blink an eye if one morning I woke up and proceeded to the kitchen to find a complete stranger making his cup of joe. “Oh, a new roomie again? How nice.” Well, you know, they say normalcy is boring! Good luck with the tutoring! I think it sounds quite brave.
Have a nice week.
The redwood national park is fantastic. I highly receommend it. I usually go to Muir woods outside San francisco whenever I visit my aunt in that area. I don’t know if that is under the national parks umbrella but it is one of my all time favorite “refreshing the soul” places.
Take care good luck with the tutoring and roomates
~Amber~