Summer Break

Well, it is now over and done with. The school year ended without too much fanfare. I didn't have any students come to challenge me about my grading; which was nice for a change. I went to graduation because I was required to go, but I went with some rebellion: I wore the colors of the rival school, Green. It was interesting to see how this subtle trick took hold. I looked incredibly nice and put together, I just wasn't wearing the colors of the school and that is what made a few people nervous. Interesting how that happens.

I went to the faculty breakfast the next morning because I was, again, required to go. I didn't eat anything--it all smelled disgusting anyway. But the principal had decided to allow each of the departments who had someone leaving a chance to say something in front of the faculty. My "chair" (i.e. the one who had been spreading nasty things about me) got up and started talking. She made me get up as well. I stood there with my face in a pleasant look and I just watched her. I didn't look out at the faculty because I wanted to see her talking pattern. You can tell a lot about a person and what they're saying by watching their body language. While she was talking, she said things like "an asset to our department, she will be missed" and she looked at the floor while she was saying that. She also said "kindhearted person, driven, and hardworking" and she was looking left and down, which also means lies and deceit. When she tried to hand over the gift she had for me, her hand was shaking and I let the gift hang in the air for a little to show her shaking to the entire faculty. Then I took it, but I left it in my office with a note saying "Sorry, it just doesn't fit" which can be lead to mean a bunch of different things. I wanted to say something in front of the faculty to call her out, but I decided that I was going to be the bigger person in all this and just let it be. She'll get what comes to her eventually.

But I did have an interview, but I didn't get the job. They went with someone who had a better "fit" as they told me. And the Principal didn't even call me himself. He had his secretary do it. I hate it when people push tasks like that off to the secretaries.

But I'm still looking around. Now I've just got to find almost anything.