Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Grumble, Grumble

You might think that someone who keeps packing up her life into two suitcases and moving continents would be down with change. You'd be wrong. I am not actually all that fond of change, though I generally adapt to it pretty quickly. In particular, I can think of a new place as home in less time than it takes Emily to flush a toilet (which is longer than you might think, but still a short period of time.)

So, I arrive back in Korea and crash. I wake up at 6:30, feeling refreshed and up in time to actually pamper myself in the shower with random spa-type creams and cleansers, make breakfast and read a magazine before heading off to work. At this point, my last week was starting off on an incredibly high note.

But I work for Poly School, so I should have been prepared for the feeling to not last longer than, say, three seconds upon entering the building. They have changed the motherfucking schedules!!! Pardon my French there, but f@*k. It's my last damn week and I have three whole new classes, with tons of new students and I've lost a class that I had been teaching for the past 51 weeks. That's right, one bloody week short of a year. I have additional prep and new textbooks and just loads of extra crap to wade through.

Monday they changed the afternoon schedule, Tuesday the morning one. I thought I was safe for the evening, home and with no plans but dinner, interneting, maybe a little Tudors-watching to procrastinate from the pending packing disaster. And then I found out that the fuckers have changed Facebook.

Seriously?!?

3 comments:

Beachcomber said...

Wow. That sucketh mightily.

antijen said...

Oh yeah, the last minute schedule changes. It's hard to tell if supervisors are oblivious or if they really DO try to mess with us.

Sofiya said...

"You might think that someone who keeps packing up her life into two suitcases and moving continents would be down with change. You'd be wrong. I am not actually all that fond of change, though I generally adapt to it pretty quickly."

Huh. So, further to my suspicion that we are, in fact, the same person...

I'm the typical Taurean who hates change with a passion and likes crawling into my comfort zone and staying there for a long time, but for some reason I've become an inveterate nomad. I can't remember how this happened, but I don't seem to be able to stop it.