Somewhere East of Life

I feel bad for not updating more, but to be honest it's been more a case of lethargy. I have finally been able to put a name to my condition and that is familial hemiplegic migraines. For me, they tend to manifest as vistibular migraines. But that basically means is I get dizzy and confused quite often. Unfortunately they are completely out of control and I'm getting migraines on a daily basis, which is frightening because a serious condition will see people having them one week. What does that say about me?

 

Rethinking life goals

 

There are a few things I have had to rethink in my life. The most obvious is my ability to work. I don't think I will be able to seriously hold a job outside of the home anymore. Which is a really hard thing to face. But given my job skills I don't have this set required to telecommute at any serious level. Which means, I need to go back to school. I will have to re think my degree and change fields completely.

 

In that I am actually hopeful that I have an idea for my future. It is just going to take a helluva lot of time and effort get there, mostly because I have to come up with a way to pay for my schooling while I'm having trouble being able to do any significant amount of work. But I will find off way before, because I am very determined.

 

That's it for now

 

There is more to this thing called my life, that but that is not enough depression for one day. Maybe I can try to update more than once a year. We will just have to see how that goes, right?

Had my first day today. Not actually teaching lessons, but I did hang out and get an idea of how things are done.

It's surprisingly well organized from what I remember of it last time, and as I understand it it's rather new for them too. I'll have an army of leader-type people and other helps if one of the kids have issues (though there's only three of them in my class). Their class time is split between two sessions over a two hour period. I've only actually got a 20 or 30 minute window to teach them. Not too bad overall.

Coolest thing, especially for my budget, is that I have access to the church library and it's resources for any lessons and projects I come up with. TVs and media players, pictures, craft items... you name it they got it.

My three little students are a little high strung at the moment, but they've not had a regular teacher in some time.

Going to get started on looking over my teaching manual and next week's lesson. Hopefully I can come up with something to keep the little darlings' interest piqued.