There are things they never tell you about running your own business

[dragojustine]

So. I went from barely scraping up 15 hours a week of work to my situation now, where it looks like I'll be working from 4pm to 10pm six days a week, and that's not counting all the unscheduled hours to fit around that. It happened rather suddenly. In the meantime, I just got back from three hours of (unpaid) parent meetings, and I need to review everything I ever knew about transformational geometry (which I don't think I've known since I was 12) and pull together some worksheets, review Invisible Man (which I haven't read since I was 11) and pull together study questions, and read up on Africa, 1450-1750 (because you would not believe -- or, well, if you're at all interested in such things, you would believe -- what a blank spot sub-Saharan African is in my historical education).

And, you know, in every job interview I've ever been in I say that the single most important thing to me is to get a job where I can keep learning, and I always say that's why I love teaching and I can't abide a job where I don't use my brain. But some days? Some days, I kind of want to beat my head against something.

There are things they never tell you about running your own business, you know. Or, rather, there are things they DO tell you but you (meaning me) never actually listen, but "things they never tell you about running your own business" makes for a better title for a list.
1. You will work at least two unpaid hours for every paid hour you work
2. You will spend a ludicrous amount of your own money on supplies that your employer would otherwise provide
3. Your schedule will not be remotely consistent, but instead will be a terrifying feast-or-famine cycle.

*sigh* On the plus side, I think I'll be able to break even this month even with the $300 ticket, and possibly treat bdblack in February and buy myself a modest birthday present. So.


In more fannish news, Leverage! I am so endlessly, endlessly in love with Elliot and Hardison and their dynamic. SO IN LOVE. Apparently there was a new SPN. I am having a hard time caring. I finished the season of Merlin, and it still is giving me lots of thinky thoughts about why I love shows, which I still do not quite have the energy to type out.

The Flist Knows All: Surely there is somebody on my flist who watched Boston Legal, right? Would you by any chance have strong opinions as to where I should start? Which episodes (or what season, or whatever) is the must-see for my little slashy James-Spader-fangirly heart?

Comments

[miriad.livejournal.com]

First, let me say, THANK GOD FOR WORK! *hugs*

Secondly, I got your e-mail at work but was in the middle of one of the worst headaches known to man. I was actually sent home by my boss, where I proceeded to drug myself into oblivion until this afternoon. So, not ignoring you, just wishing my brain would just go ahead and drain out my ears and be done with it.

Thirdly, YES. ELLIOT AND HARDISON. YES.

Fourth, I never really watched Boston Legal but I did catch one episode one time, where James Spader and William Shatner end up in Canada fishing? IT WAS SO AMAZING. Seriously. If I actually watched the show, I'm sure it would be better but even without all the setup, I ADORED IT. Also, Betty White was a guest star, something about a frying pan. I don't know.

Love you, J. *hugs*

[dragojustine.livejournal.com]

I knew you weren't ignoring me! *hugs back* headaches suck. I hope you feel better.

ELLIOT AND HARDISON. I KNOW. Are you writing that Vegas fic? or will you write me this instead? *g* I can't do either of those, and they would both rock.

[miriad.livejournal.com]

I do feel better. Thank goodness. *whew*

I'm feeling Vegas more than Leverage. But I need to stew on it a bit. ;)