I got the gig in New Philadelphia for Summer III, which is a good thing.  It will help out our finances tremendously, as well as give me another class at another campus for my vita.  So far, so good.  I still have to fill out some paperwork to make it official, but I'm in.  I'm looking forward to the teaching, though admittedly not as much to the hour-long drive before and after class.

My intro class at Kent isn't going terribly well.  The length of the class meetings gets my mind tired before class is over, meaning I'm stumbling over my words a bit toward the end.  Combine that with a couple of annoying students and the terrible meeting time of 4:30-7:00, and it's a kind of shitty class.  We'll see how this progresses.  Sometimes it takes me a few lectures to get into any sort of flow.  Hopefully, I'll get there.

It also looks like, despite the financially decent (loose terms) summer that we're going to have, that we're not really going to have time to go anywhere.  By taking on this extra class down at New Philadelphia, my summer schedule has been extended by three weeks.  That class finished August 16, only a week before the beginning of fall semester.  I really hate it, because I had optimistic plans to visit Carla and Shaun in Arizona (she was the top of the list), as well as some other old friends.  I feel really bad about no Arizona because she's come back east like 42 times, and I've never gone out there to see her.  Maybe this coming fall break, or maybe spring break.  The possibility is still open to a weekend anniversary trip somewhere reasonably close and a short trip to Gatlinburg if Amy's parents bankroll.

I don't know.  The past couple weeks have been poor for me, mental health-wise. Amy's going in to get her toe fixed (once and for all) on Monday.  It's a horrible situation, because the lack of insurance means it's going to seriously impair us, but on the other hand, she's in pain and that has to stop now.  I just want her to feel better, and we'll deal with the horseshit as it comes.

On top of that, Amy's been picking up the slack for everyone at her job, so this is her first day off in two weeks.  She's spent most of it sleeping or laying around, and I can't say that I blame her. On the other hand, since my class at Kent isn't going terribly well and the Middle East class is kinda boring, things have been kinda sucky in general.

Money isn't everything.