Well. Apparently it has taken me two months (you know, after the initial three months) to work up the energy to write a tiny little post about my recent changes. What have I been doing with my spare time? Let’s just say that if sitting on one’s ass and watching South Park DVDs equaled writing blog posts, I would have one outstandingly updated blog.

My awesome news is that I was able to quit my waitressing job! It was so thrilling. For the last few months, I had just been getting more and more fed up with work, to the point where I would wake up in the morning and if it was a day I had to go in to the restaurant, I would just dread it allll day long. There was nothing particularly horrible about this particular job I had really; I was just burned out of the act of serving in general. The only thing standing in my way was the huge loss of income if I quit.

It is too bad that you can’t make the same money working retail or in a coffee shop or bookstore as you can as a bartender or server. I had spent some time doing little calculations, trying to see whether if I just upped my hours at my gallery internship and also cut down on my expenses, I would still be able to make ends meet, but unfortunately the difference between an average shift’s tips and my hourly gallery pay was just too much. So I was resigned to just keep on waitressing (and complaining bitterly about waiting on rednecks and cranky oldsters to anybody who would listen).

And THEN! Bliss! I was on Craigslist one day and saw a posting from an SAT prep company, calling for teachers/tutors. Luckily I happen to be a good test-taker, and have a history of good standardized test scores, so I was eligible to apply. Long story short and two interviews later, I got the job! I am now a part-time SAT teacher/tutor! And although the classes are only held twice a week for a few hours each, the hourly pay is terrific so I was able to quit the restaurant.

So, I have not yet started the actual teaching part of the job; the next class starts mid-January so I am still in the self-training phase. The company sent me a huge box of teaching manuals and booklets, and I am trying really really hard to make myself sit down and go through them all. This part of it, admittedly, is going slowly, because right now I am on break from school and this just feel like, you know, more school.

Also I am pretty terrified about this job, because what if the kids don’t learn anything and they do badly on the SAT and don’t get into college?? I will have ruined their lives. I mean, if I messed up at my last job, somebody just had to, like, wait a long time for their entree, so this is a pretty large jump in responsibility.

I keep having these visions of standing at the front of a room full of frat boys who are snickering about my boobs while I ramble on and on about modifiers. Oh my god. I hate high school kids.