My Summer of Craftiness

today is day one of my summer break. as some of you may know, summer is at both times the greatest and worst time of the year for teachers. you go from organizing the grades and schedules of 100-200 students to not even organizing your own day. you also go from having a pretty regular income to having absolutely none. now, i am doing some teaching this summer- but it also means that i'm coming up a bit short. with the upcoming move, i've been considering numerous summer employment options.

one involved me working with alligators and outside.

another one involved working at one of those places where you "model" for customers.

and then i realized i'm going to have to play this summer like the White Sox won the 2005 series. one ball, one base, one run at a time. so, i figured out the total i need to earn for moving by the end of the summer. and i've now gone about chipping away at this total. i figured i'm saving myself at least 50 bucks a week by not leaving my house. besides orchestrating a deal to work manual, hard labor for my mother for a week- i'll probably be calling on you this week to see what i can do for you. that's right, i'm for hire.

besides that...i discovered today that students shouldn't be the only ones that are allowed to sell back their books at the end of the semester- which was certainly one of the most awesome days in college. what a brilliant idea. your parents buy the textbooks at these outstanding prices, then you sell them back at less than half the price and keep the money, never mentioning that bottle of southern comfort to mom either.

so...my horrible confession. i sold back books today online. i couldn't fathom being caught by any students, so i went online- where all wrong-doers can feel better about themselves. i'm pretty sure i'm not even suppose to be doing this. but once i saw that i could get 26 bucks for one book, i was hooked. to clear my guilt, i did donate a couple of books to bringing about world peace...but here is the thing...after it was all said and packaged for the post office- i earned about 170 dollars today.

now only 2830 more to go.