Absent Funds

Well Obi got both jobs he went for which means he will be working a grand total of 45 hours a week minimum. So I am sad to say I will have to curb most everything...

My study buddy is coming over Sunday to do the grammar portion of my TESOL certificate. She is a sad little chicken, she was seeing C3beerO and he dropped her like a hot potatoe... She was so upset that she wanted to board a ship and fly back to her part of the world... I say thee 'Neigh'! So I cheered her up and convinced her to hang around for a few more months and enjoy the friends she's made and the countryside...

I am already tired, and I am not sleeping well - so how am I gonna get through the next 14 weeks.

Obi got a mountain ahead

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Sunday - Well I start work tomorrow and then a public holiday Tuesday. I have realised that I have a few assignments to complete with my TESOL certificate. Better get on that pretty damn quick.
What else? Gotta empty my place out and get things rolling...

Obi is playing in double gravity!

All Written On The Western Front

Today I woke up late and felt good for the sleep in. I spent 4 hours on the lesson plan to be submitted and all in all I am happy with the final outcome. Big thanks to the offer for help!
I really should ask my Fatman when he is escaping the humdrum and training across Russia... it must be coming up soon!
Job interviews tomorrow on the local front. 2 actually, one for the weekdays 12 - 12 Monday to Friday and the other is Saturday 9 - 5 only so at the end of it all I will be tired but back on track financially. I am unlikely to keep the Saturday job more than a few weeks, we will see how life goes.

Siiigh - Bills and mortgage beckon and at this point I am so poor I can't even pay attention Ahaaaaa!!

Obi can ya spare a dime?

Jumping Thru Hoops Under The Big Top!

I got an email back from the Moscow job, which I am really wanting now because I know a sweet hearted soul in Moscow who can help me adjust. My prospective boss is suspect of my skills, and so she should be. So she has asked me to jump through a hoop so to say by organising a 90 lesson plan, which in effect is 2 lessons. I guess she wants to see my skills in action... Siiigh. I emailed back and I told her that I will have it to her in 24 hours. Now I have 20 left...

The topic:- draft a lesson plan 90 minute lesson to intermediate level adults reaching Present perfect vs. past simple together with exercises clarifying how is use a/an/the/zero articles.

Easy... hehe. ah hum... well, Shit I dunno - I will have to start at the start and see how I go!

Obi - Grammatically challenged!

Second Job Offer

I made a half serious application for a job in Moscow, I recalled it to be a huge metropolis and snow covered monuments and a sea of Russian faces. I had a pen friend 14 years ago Elena, We wrote normal letters in the time before email being common and shared photos and thoughts.

But as time passes, people drift away for one reason or another, I wondered about her many time over the last few years we have been out of contact and it seems fate it stepping in. Today I recieved an email from the Moscow job and also a letter from Elena at my mother's address.

So I look forward to speaking with her more and I look forward to getting to know her again.

Obi-ski is lucky!

First Job Offer!

Changchun in China!
I can't say I know too much about it yet but it looks like a nice city!
Though it would be foolish to accept the first offer...
HmMMmmMmmm...

Obi - Big Twouble in Little China!

Easter - and the chakra enema

Easter has offered me a few days off the treadmill of taudry. So in the spirt of this time of year, I saw a psychic at my mother's behest. She really did not do much at all but I left feeling a lot better about the whole 'do something brilliant with your life' thing...

Right now I have had 8 beers and I am feeling rather good, and even articulate enough to spell properly!

So I am left with the same challenges issued by two unrelated people in 2 days... I am thinking that it is something I oughta do... Take stock and make a list... The list!

I have a pen and a poetic license and I ain't afraid to use 'em!! Look out Punk!!

Obi - Flipped out and now play his own game!

God is pickin' on me!

Well a day hunting for jobs has turned up something a little different than I expected...
I disclosed that I had a claim in process and no one wanted to know me after that... so I am now all about lying!

I am an honest and frank person, if ya smell I will surely tell ya. Much to the that extent I have closed the claim for my hearing damage to the employment agencies. The treatment I got from the company I worked for because I made a claim was somewhere between distain and horror...

So the day has left me feeling a little dispondent. I have closed my claim, much to the glee of the company I worked for and I will now search for a job regardless of any injury I still have. What else can I do? There is no spoon!

Obi must play nice - even with sharp objects!

Spin On A Dime

Life can spin on a dime. Life can spin on another dime out of control. Personaly I think my life at the moment is much like that Sci Fi TV series Seven Days, in which a chrono-naut goes back in time... Except there is not a back in time bit, The similairity is when he starts to travel back in time trying desperately to hold the joystick steady in an impossible effort against the elements.

Tomorrow I start a new job (I think) Not a great feeling about it but I did negotiate a higher wage... and for 18 weeks I think I can get it done, and as an added bonus, as soon as I can get this undercontrol as a job I can go back to teaching in the mornings from 10 - 11am and still be on time to work! I would be a tired puppy but at least doing the things I want to...

Well lets see what I can do in 2 days before Easter!

Obi Says - Gawd Hep meh!

Vem Vet

I recently discovered Lisa Ekdahl, a beautiful voice, I look forward to hearing more of her music...

Du är en saga för god för att vara sann
det är en saga i sig att vi funnit varann
vi kunde lika gärna
aldrig nånsin mötts
eller var vårt möte
redan bestämt långt innan vi fötts

vem vet, inte du
vem vet. inte jag
vi vet ingenting nu
vi vet inget idag


Hejsan Pillan

Obi's turning Swedish I really think so.. (not quite the catchy tune - Turning Japanese BUT!)

The Birthday Dazzler

Well Life marches on. I am quite unhappy about the ridiculous job I have been dished out by the Company I was employed by. I took on a job that did not have a job discription. I am now supposedly a OSU assistant - Operational Support Unit...
I doubt that I will be able to last at this job... I just cannot last through the boredom.
Thanks to those that tried to cheer me up. This job is just pathetic and I have to do it for 8 hours a day. I will be looking for another job tonight! Lets hope I can last the day and the week.

Obi Dont Play Dat!

Life Is For The Living

What is worse?? Knowing you are dead or continuing on regardless? Don't answer that - I already know. I am the embodiment of ambivalence .

Road Map Ambivalences

... too tired to write...

Back To The Drawingboard!

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Well Monday, the start of the working week will begin in 6 hours and find me not working still. I have one more practical class to take. My instructor will sit in and assess me and I have told my regular students this, so I hope the cheeky monkeys will make me look good... They are sweet kids...

I must only have a few slots in which I can manage anything. They say you have 7, and use all when you are learning to drive but as time and experience pass the number of slots needed drops to 1, or .5 if you examine the way I drive... Now having said that, I have had my American friend here visiting me, a great time was had, it could have been better if I had have been better prepared but I have been distracted lately with the many frustrations of not working and having no money etc.

Doug has gone north to see his other friends, I wish him well, but having said that it also frees up a slot or 2 for me to deal with the shortage of work and the company I am jokingly refer to as my employer. They have come up with one, count it, one whole job that I can do...

Horaay for choice! They have offered me a job, this job is nothing I would ever choose for myself and I have to accept it as they are trying ever so pitifully to find me employment again. Of course part of me says that they are offering me a shit job so I quit which will disolve their responsibility of me and the permanent hearing loss my work place accident has caused... nice plan I may have to foil! Firstly I will address this and another medical certificate tomorrow...

1. I need one more class to complete my elective unit for my TESOL certificate.
2. I would like to be able to continue taking a few classes, I have become attached to some of my students.
3. I have to be working by the end of the week...
4. I have to get another medical certificate
5. I have to ask in a NICE WAY - Why the fuck they have paid me for 3 weeks and not 5 as is required to date...

So there we have it. I like to stack my plate high and pile on the pressure, most often it motivates me into action, some time it breaks me and drive me down and depresses me. So lets aim for the first one shall we?

Well that is it, a week with a huge achievement curve...

A special hello to Bendy, a sweetheart worry wart I have come to know in the last few months. Breath deep and take it easy... you are a star! Ask me, I know...

Yo Fatman! How are you? you didn't seem yourself last time we spoke, is everything okay?

Raindog71 Keep the chin up and move forward in a determined motivated way... You can do anything!

Obi kind oh mountain of impossibilty!