This will give me enough time to actually think of topics when I have a minute or two. Since I’ll be so busy, I’ll only be blogging once a week this summer. Needless to say I’ll be busy this summer. So I have a few small trees in the backyard I want to move up front, then flowers and weeds and vegetables to tend to. Check it out, it’s kind of long, but gives a whole different meaning to the song. I actually dug a new flower garden in the front of my house because the vegetable garden is full. &0183 &32 Wilson has an interesting story about the origin of Closing Time that he told at his 25th college reunion.

I love getting the dirt under my nails and seeing the things I plant grow. To take my mind off my current unemployment status, I’ve been gardening. My story now is apply for jobs until someone wants me and if no one does I’ll run away to Vietnam forever. Closing in on some endings this week it’s May, which means another school year is coming to a close, and I just finished reading To Kill A Mockingbird with my seventh graders.This is bittersweet as I will not be teaching 7th graders anymore next year, which means no more Scout and Atticus and no more Shakespeare, either. On the other hand, every time I see someone I haven’t seen since graduation, they ask me what the next step is. I tweeted earlier that my cover letters are less selling my skills and more begging for a job so I don’t have to write ANOTHER cover letter. Currently, I have about 25 tabs open on my browser of places I have to apply tomorrow. What is a summer without back to school shopping? Or without saving every penny you make in the summer to spend over the course of the school year?Īt this point, I’m not sure which is more exhausting: applying to jobs or people asking me what I’m doing now that I graduated.

Like I said in my last post, I’ve been in school for 16 years. It’s still a little surreal that I graduated from college and I’m not going back to school in the fall. This new post-college life is still very strange to me. Today’s post is just going to be a quick update on where I am right now.

Semisonic closing time meaning college