Bleh...

This inversion we've been having has made so many people feel sick, myself included. Sigh.  mainly it just feels like a head cold with out the headache(thankfully).  Just a sore throat and a cough that hurts my chest. And a bit of a stuffy nose, but that I am used to.  But we had snow monday which seems to be clearing out the inversion enough that I'm feeling better(cough is lingering though).
Work is both slowing down and not.  Monday was so boring we were done with most of the cleaning stuff by five.  Yesterday was different, though we did get all the cleaning done(my coworkers did, I wound up watching register and filling orders while they cleaned).  But it was busy enough we were not bored. At least not until those not working to close left and it got really slow.  but that was only for less than an hour and there were only three of us.
Had a sub job yesterday that was easy, the only difficult part was getting from it to work.  have one tomorrow that takes less than five minutes to get to my work from. makes life a bit easier.
Have another interview with the Japan job(seems the Sukugawa one fell through, they can't get a hold of the school district or something to confirm a job I guess. But not Fukushima, though they haven't told me for sure yet.)and some more paper work stuff to do.  Hope this cough is gone by then, do not want to sound like I'm losing my voice or coughing every five minutes when I'm trying to get a job secured.
Have this strange infestation of crows in our neighborhood, been there for over a month I think.  At least they're not bothering our one remaining cat....Just being all over our yards.

Substitute Teaching...

Is always a mystery even if the teacher gives you info up front about the class and such.  Because until I walk in the classroom door I have no idea what I'm going to find.  It can be a elementary class that is very nice and behaved but claims their mischievous(or something like that) or a class that is rowdy and off the walls right off the bat.  Even the lesson plans go from a simple "Do this, have the students do that" to "By this time have this done so you can move onto that".  Take today, where I  walked in to the class to find the main teacher(I was subbing for an aide) getting stuff ready as the rest of the school was doing ACT testing which meant for the teacher I was with: two hours of prep because they had to be there any way.  And I had two boring hours to wait for something to do. Sigh....Then one of the other aides asked if I could sub for them on a future date.
So a typical not to be expected day.  But work's been getting slow now that we're past the holidays.  Saturday was nuts, and last thursday was competing with it, but yesterday was more boring than the two hours this morning, as we were running out of stuff to stock or clean or do.  Cold and cloudy, but no real snow falling.
Hope the rest of today is more busy than yesterday was....

New Year!

It is so weird to have it be 2019...and still be sooo cold! Today and yesterday it finally got warm enough to really melt stuff(like the ice and snow on the driveway I already spent two days getting off so cars could get in and out better)but not by much.
Of course work slowed down a lot, which means my coworkers are bored. I'm used to it(though last year did not follow suit, given it stayed busy for a while after New Years)so I now to expect less hours and less customers.  And so having to find more stuff to do.
Managed to shift my shoulder out of place trying to get the ice off, so my chiropractor had to put it back.  felt it shift out during work later, but I think in a different way because it hurts differently than it did before. But it means I need to have it put back in again next week...
Down to about two months before I really have to get stuff together for Japan, and I feel like it is going fast and taking forever at the same time.  Figures.
Hope everyone had a great New Year's, and promise for a great year to follow.