I return to full time work next week.
For a little while anyway.
It's not teaching and I am so, so honoured to have this opportunity.
Because of the FOUR non disclosure and confidentiality agreements I signed before I started I am not sure how much I can say about the work right now.
Suffice to say, it's pretty important stuff, and that alone makes it exciting.
But lets rewind to the end of 2006.
I had been working in what initially seemed to be the perfect teaching post. Great students, some great colleagues and a beautiful work environment.
I left in pieces.
There is a BRILLIANT line in The West Wing (one of my all time favourite TV series) where the President elect Matt Santos says to a Church congregation: "We are all broken."
Well I was.
I have always been anti bullying and I look back almost in bewilderment at the person I became because of a certain colleague. The old saying "sticks and stones" etc etc
Yeah, whatever.
And constant belittlement.
That's great too.
I decided to resign the day I realised the beta blockers I was taking for stress weren't working anymore. No job, none, is worth that.
And why the hell was I taking them in the first place?
So I quit,
stayed home,
made a delicious chubby baby to add to my crew
and became a domestic goddess
(one who can't cook all that well)
and I worked from home a little too.
And now I am going back to work.
And I'm scared,
because I'm pretty sure I'm still a little broken.
Keep me in your thoughts,
I hope I've papered over the cracks enough to do a GREAT job,
because I really, really want to do this.
And most pressingly of all,
what does a girl wear to work these days?
Shoulderpads are out of fashion still, right?
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- Working girl.
- Attempted murder by cat!
- Twenty-Eight Kakapo Chicks - Nine More Possible!
- Aspirational and Inspirational
- Radio New Zealand - Kakapo Audios
- Price update for access to Blu-ray movies
- Sorry guys but I ate one of you!
- Giant Sea Monsters have devoured all the hire cars
- Playlist - 28th March 2009
- How the Pink Pigeon Escaped the Dodo's Fate
- Week Ending March 29
- Netflix Launches New Personalization Features
- Did Somebody Say Spring?
- The Battered Bandit
- Running Through a Sea of Phlegm
- TV Series Filming Almost Complete
- The Duck Handbook has arrived
- Internet Explorer Error - Solved?
- Our Choice Follows 'Truth': Al Gore's Newest Book
- Friends & Baseball
- Komodo Dragons Maul Fruit-Picker to Death
- Our kittens have been kittennapped
- Which came first?
- Share Ratings with Facebook Connect
- Oh Duh but woddabout dah rules?
- Week Ending March 22
- Becki Saves the Rhinos
- This is the best restaurant in Wien
- Playlist - 21st March 2009
- Twenty Kakapo Chicks - YAY!
- Food crisis
- Nature walk this morning
- Netflix Trying for Consistent Excellence on Streaming
- Last Chance To See: Book Review
- Muffin has betrayed me!
- Titus' Kingdom Dwindles
- I will make sure there is nothing in my underpants...
- Cooking up a storm.
- Video of Kakapo Chicks
- The KAP trigger has been pulled!
- Stephen Fry Arrives in Labuan Bajo... Just!
- Non-Cat people beware
- Cute bug-themed stuff for spring
- Mantis Monday for 3-16-09
- There is nothing wrong with half a cow in a jar
- Six already
- Exposed
- Week Ending March 15
- Enforced captivity
- Salida Marathon - A Run Through Time
- Just hatched
- Playlist - 14th March 2009 - Funkology
- Melissa was not eaten by Giant Rats
- i'll be dancing
- The gold ring scam is very popular here
- 14 Kakapo Chicks! 105 and counting!
- A milkweedy weed
- Salida, Two Days Away
- We are off to see Monsieur the Crepe Maker
- Conflicted
- Down and Out in Paris
- Video: Nature's Greatest Moments - Living Fossils
- Plein Soleil
- England vs New Zealand
- Last Chance To See Books: Re-issue, and TV Tie-In
- Calm in the Congo
- Stumbling
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- Video: Nature's Greatest Moments - Komodo Dragon
- New Netflix Communities
- Pikes Peak
- A short lizard tale
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- Perhaps if I hold my breath for long enough my fur...
- FINAL REMINDER: 7th Douglas Adams Memorial Lecture...
- Week Ending March 8
- We couldn't go to Prague
- Playlist - 7th March 2009
- Video: National Geographic's Gorillas on the Edge
- Deer Mountain
- Six Kakapo Chicks So Far...
- Apologies
- Komodo Dragon Mauls Ranger
- Camping, days 9 & 10: a pint, and a revelation.
- I am as crook as Rookwood
- The Blogger is unwell
- Fort Collins Running Club: Best Value in Town
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- Danny Bolye
- Hatchings Boost Kakapo Population to 93
- The KAP is in full swing
- Camping, Day 8: Civilisation, Rediscovered
- screen capture movie
- Lion for a day
- No more Cheesy Omelettes for Muffin
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- Feb spending
- Fatty Pants
- Dub Review - March 2009
- Cate's Pith Helmet came in handy
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