Reality Escapes Her

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I cannot put into words, how daunting the idea of updating my blog this week has been. I went away for a fabulous weekend with my church’s youth group and had a blast – but this week marked the first week of the school year here in Victoria, and it’s the first time in several years that I’ll be working full time. I had a short 7 week stint last year while one member of staff took leave, but outside of that, it has been a long time since I’ve had consistent, full time, ongoing work.

Of course this is actually exciting – as I desperately need money, and although it isn’t at all what I want to be doing, I do love my job. The real problem this week has been that I live an hours drive from work – but my car has been suspended. When I purchased it last October it came with a roadworthy, but the man I bought it from gave me the wrong roadworthy forms. Despite my asking him to take the forms into VicRoads for me (he lives about 3 hours drive away from me) he hasn’t and so now my car is suspended until all of that is sorted out. Which means I’m catching public transport and having to leave home at 5:30-6am to work at a school, and I’m really lucky if I’m home again 12 hours later! I know it’s just because I’m not accustomed to it, but I’ve been so exhausted as a result of this. I can’t wait until my car is back on the road again!

Work has been good though – the children don’t start back again until Monday, and so the last few days have been setting up our classrooms, as well as we had one really good Professional Development session (a young man with Autism came in and told us his journey, and it was really wonderful – despite all of his struggles, he eventually worked his way out of being on a modified program and he went on to do really well with his VCE and is now in his last year of Graphic Design at University!), and then yesterday we had a conference for all the special schools in the region I work in. I thought the conference was going to be professionals boring us to tears with their theories and philosophies about autism and what we need to do to work with them talking to us about autism, but as it turned out – it was about general health and well-being for the staff working in these schools! It was interesting to me to see that our school seemed to have the largest group of younger staff – it was quite nice actually. Of course though, I took an interest in the presentations that were offered to us (and was really … happy… to hear the speaker say that those of us working in the role that I am in, probably have the hardest job in our workplaces). I’ve been wanting to lose my excess weight for some time, but the task just seems far too daunting sometimes – he spoke to us about the importance of sleep and how it needs to be timed etc, exercise, and nutrition. Mental health was also spoken about quite a lot – and my friend and I thought his name for the spiral down to depression “the death spiral” was great. Don’t really know why, but it seemed amusing and awesome at the time. It was a very good presentation though and while I knew a lot of it already, I walked away from it and took something with me.

In creative news though, well, I haven’t done a great deal. I have some more sketches I need to scan in, and I have some HTML/CSS I need to work on for a friend today – I also need to upload all my 365 project photos, as I am still going with that – haven’t fallen behind in taking them ^-^ Other than that I’ve been a little busy.

I was wondering though, what is it that you guys would like to see more of in my blog? Obviously I will continue to post my own art and photography and anything else I feel like sharing – but are you lovelies interested also in seeing more about what inspires me – photography etc by other people? Let me know ^-^

I’ll do “Just a minute” either later today, or sometime tomorrow, so keep an eye out for it!

xx