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May 26, 2005
News at Work Today
As I have alluded to many times in my blog, my job is not the greatest. A little bit of background will help in the understanding. The school where I work takes students from all of the districts in the county where I live. Most of these students are expelled from the regular public school system. A few are placed instead of being expelled and some are coming from being detained. Instead of a school district running this school, a private company runs it. This company is a for-profit corporatation. In the education world, this basically spells trouble. There has been something not quite legit going on and it has been getting worse. Our paychecks have bounced. Our health and dental insurance has been terminated. There are numerous outstanding, unpaid bills at school. You get the picture. We received news today that the company we work for did not receive the contract for next school year. Since I had no plans to work at this school next year, it did not bother me all that much. The company that will be running the school does not have the same financial difficulties as the one that I currently work for, but you can only take the behavioral challenges that these students provide for so long. The main concern at this point is if our paychecks in June and July will clear. The problem is if the company is bankrupt, how will we get our pay for the work we do? I have dealt with being severely underpaid for four years, but this is not volunteer work and I do expect to be paid for my time.
So my toe felt kind of tingly today, but it was not too bad. I soaked it in an ice tub when I got home from work. Tonight was track night, but I am still prohibited from doing workouts. The weather said that it was 60 degrees out, but it felt much hotter than that. I was sweating buckets wearing my short sleeve shirt and shorts-usually at 60 degrees that is a comfortable outfit. It may have gotten warmer since the sun was coming out after being in hiding all day. It was rainy and gross out in the morning and even when I left work this afternoon. I did the warm-up and then went out with 3 folks who were not doing the workout for an easy run. The pace was difficult for me-it was unnaturally slow. I skipped the warm-down since I had already done over 6 miles for the night and didn't want to push it to almost 9 for the night.
I do have permission to do the Saturday morning long run this weekend. I'll keep it short, maybe as short as 45 minutes, but I really want to run with other people!
Posted by Blondie at May 26, 2005 08:11 PM