Saturday, June 7, 2008

so i guess this is life...

It seems like every time I stop to think about the "status" of my life so I can write in this thing, the conclusion is always - this is just a really funny, clumsy time of life. As the end of the schoolyear gets here I have to make plans for the summer, and these plans are in the following state:
I MAY, or possibly MAY NOT, have a job teaching english at a summer camp here in spain for a few weeks.
I can't stay in my current apartment in July, but need a place to stay, but not for the WHOLE month if the summer camp thing swerves toward the "may work out" possibility.
I have a tentative job teaching private english classes, but that MAY not work out depending on what happens with summer camp.
I MAY know where I'm living next september by the end of the month and be able to move things there, but it MAY NOT be settled in time.
I MAY be getting almost 500 euros from the Spanish government if I get my shit together and they don't take an eon to give me my tax info (this MAY be too much to ask).

I MAY be broke and homeless in a month - though somehow I trust this will not happen.

Basically there's a curious amount of "MAY" going on for it to be June.

Other general goings one (file under the "amusing" category), last weekend I was in the end-of-term dance concert for the afterschool program at the school I work at. Beth and my friend Dan came to see the show, which was quite something,, let me tell you. Check out this clip somebody posted on youtube - it's from the dance I did with all of the moms from the school (and a couple other teachers) to Thriller by Michael Jackson...dressed as zombies. Just wait 'til I get pictures...

When the zombies leave the stage I'm the blonde one that comes down to the audience in the middle (It's a wig, so no, I didn't dye my hair again).

I also danced around in gold lamé as a backup dancer, while Virginia (same Virginia as always) sang Don't Stop Me Now by Queen. Need to get those pics up too...

At the end of the weekend Beth left for a month travelling around Mexico, and I wish I were going off on an adventure too. I guess in a way just living here is adventure enough in comparison with what I could be doing otherwise, but I was hoping to get away and do something other than teaching english this summer, change things up, see new places. I wanted to go do a WOOF program in Italy, but I'm afraid I can't turn away getting paid. I need the money - because I haven't saved any this year. I need to learn how to do that... So this is the difference between before and after college.

One thing I can't complain of is that it's a beautiful day outside, and I should be there in it. I'm trying to spend less time plugged into the computer and more outdoors, even if it's only to read. I suggest you do the same.
HAPPY SUMMER.