When life gives you lemons....

you make lemonade! What happens if you have no sugar? How are you suppose to make those shitty little lemons into anything other than sour condiments!? I did not get the Alaska summer teaching job. NO NO NO of course not. GOD FORBID I actually progress on this fucking planet. OH and to add insult to injury, my iPod stopped working today. The one I use to workout with. Hey why not take away what little motivation I have left. I hate being "woe is me," but woe-fucking-me.

There is a job opening on ATP (Alaska Teacher Placement) for a Social Studies teacher in Sitka. It's pretty far South so it wouldn't be quite as harsh as the rest of Alaska, and it's BEAUTIFUL. That would be pretty amazing to be there. I'm sure it will fold before I have a chance to get my teacher's certification going. Because frankly, that's my luck.

I have applied to about 200 jobs in Washington now. It looks like I'll be going back home. I love Austin, but I have yet to get a full-time job here, and now I'm just wasting away money. I love the weather, it's amazing, it feels like a month-long vacation, but I think it has shown me that I want to be in Washington... I think. Frankly, I'd be willing to move anywhere on the planet if I could just have a job. I will be applying to jobs around the country, like my original plan, for teaching positions. I probably won't get any. And that would be OK, as long as I got some job somewhere, and could substitute teach in the Fall.

However, if I was forced to work in Sitka, AK, I think I could make it:

And according to The Proposal this man is from here:

You know, I could make it work.

I have so many questions though when filling out the application, I really need the help of someone from Central. Or someone at all!!

I feel like I know nothing. Every piece of information ever in my brain has left! It's incredibly frustrating. I don't think there is a Nordstrom in Sitka however, probably not even a Target!! It's an island, a BEAUtiful island. When I was originally looking up places to work/teach in Alaska, my number one choice was Sitka, but I knew it was highly unlikely because it is so small, and the majority of visitors are from Cruise ships. It would be nice though. Hard without the family of course, just like it is now. But Goose would be going with me this time. I'm never leaving without him again! And I'd have a job, so that would be a PLUS.

I miss you Goose-egg.