So the last day of school has come and gone and, despite some last minute harassment from The Universe and with the help of my principal, I made it. It even looks like they paid me for all those days off. I may have to donate some of that back somehow. We'll see. The lady who subbed for me last week and helped during the book fair is going to take over. I gave her some of my teaching materials. Hopefully she'll enjoy it.

Been over a month since my last post. Time to catch everybody up. School has been going OK but the job here is a lot different than on Guam. Normal day here is to have 5 50 minute classes with various ages with my main objective giving a break to the classroom teacher. There's just me, no library tech. There seems to be a problem with the computer system as all records are kept at a central location and I can't make the system give me a list of who's in what classes and associate barcodes for checking out books. Hence no checking books out and I get no info as to when that might happen. And I've got hand problems. When I took the job I thought I had pretty much figured out the problem with my neuropathy but the job seems to be making it worse. Consequently, I told the principal that I'm going to resign after the school book fair. Final day Sept 29. Not that I'm doing a great job, I'm not. They should be able to find a more capable individual. Reed is progressing and going to work and doing the band but unfortunately he and Jade have broken up after what - 3 years? And finally Hurricane Irma. No biggee for us. Missed a few days of school and only had a few hours of no power. Biggest impact on Jacksonville was the flooding on the north/west shore of the river.