Hello everyone,

I will be here on my own for a while.  My fellow blogger is up to his ridiculously happy-exhausted eyeballs in fatherhood and kind of has very little spare time these days.   He is movin' on up in the world and has a sooooper cute kid.  Since I'm his aunt, I know this for sure and can say it without prejudice or bias.

His life has take a turn for the better; mine for the worse.  I have kind of lost my job because of a physical impediment and a corporate loophole.  I will be having a very tricky surgery in less than a month and have to worry about getting another job ASAP. 

I wanted to take the Praxis and apply for grad school by November 1, but it's looking like March 1.  This will change my career completely.  I want to become a teacher.  In school, the thought of it frightened me like nothing else.  I have since tutored and taught and thought that now, in this world where teachers are becoming a dwindling resource, maybe it's something I should look into.  I am looking into English as a Second Language, which in VA is the #4 needed teacher on the list.  It is also a subject that people take because they want to, they need to, which avoids the whole "what's the point" argument.

The downside to all of this is that it will take about 2 years to complete a master's degree, which I will need.  Everything takes so much time.  I'm not a fan of losing my own time.  Apparently, it's the only way there is.