or not.  i have a job for another year. she didn’t sound very happy about it, but i have been asked back.  apparently this is what they do to “untenured” (in quotes because of my long sty at the U, so it seems so odd to use in my own situation) teachers, they have to nominate them for retention rather than do anything to fire them, so all the reassurance i’d been given that it would take “years” to fire anybody was worthless (of course.) but i don’t have to worry now about that for another year (sure,) by which next summer i am hopeful i will have earned my teaching certificate, or almost anyway. see if i can get some kind of work teaching when and if this one blows up, or i can move into another school, they keep trying to get rid of me by recommending that i move to middle or high school.  gee, thanks.  but at least i’m employed, and at almost a living wage, for another year.  then we shall see what we shall see, or at least i hope so.

a year out from working for the rec at wimauma; another year out from whatever comes next. i’m getting tired and i don’t even have the right to.