Updates, and Some Self-Deprecation

Firstly, I want to thank everyone again for their support, from the signal boosts to the encouragement to the kind words to the eBay bids to the donations to the just good positive energy. I'm still waiting on information on whether I'll have a new place to live, but I'm keeping positive. I checked in with the employment agencies, called the school district, letting them all know that I'm still ready, willing, and able to work, and in the meantime I'm working on revisions for the novel and checking other jobs online. They really weren't lying when they said that looking for a job is a full time job, but I can't keep waiting week after week for the school district to call me back. I figure the more lines I throw out there, the better chance I have of landing on my feet.

And, just for a little bit of an upswing in tone...

While working on revisions, I've noticed that there are a bunch of words I screw up spelling constantly. "Occasionally" is probably one of the big offenders, as well as "embarrass", and even time I type them I wince, try to remember which letters are doubled. But one word rises above all the others, stands cackling with derisive laughter above the mocking sneers of "psychedelic", "calendar", and "occurrence".

Guarantee.

I actually tremble at its name, and I'm ashamed to admit that once, having spelled it right without going to http://www.m-w.com for the millionth time, I immediately IM'ed every person I knew who was online to tell them of my triumph. I know there will come a day where I will awaken in the dead of night, Guarantee having roughly kicked my pillow out from under me, and we will fight. And there can be only one.