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Well....I'm still plugging along. I am meeting witht he owner of a private art school tomorrow...he wants to hire me even though I may have to leave if I get another job. He has 3 different class sessions in mind and they would run all summer in the evenings. He says he wants me to stay in the area....I want to stay too! I got an e-mail form the HR person at the Children's Museum in Seattle. I applied for the Art Studio Manager position...he wants me to call him. That is a full time job with benefits...don't know about $. I also sent of a letter to a small school in New Jersey and have applications still out all over the country. I am in contact with a temp agency and will try to make an appoinment to meet with them next week. I may not need their services, but want to get things in place just in case. Still finishing up teaching...next week is finals week....and....still trying to pack-up 23 years of teaching stuff.... I just want this to be over.....so...that is my update....TTFN...JJ
Sounds like you have some nice local options. I certainly don't envy you, but it sounds like you are keeping your chin up and doing what has to be done through this rough patch.
Thanks Katy...I wish I could curl up in a ball with a pint of Ben and Jerry's but....I have to keep going.....sigh....thanks for your encouragement...TTFN...JJ
Hang in there Jill - something will come along when you least expect it.
I'm pulling for ya!
Love,
Mars
"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful." -- Buddha
Thanks all of you for your encouragement. I had a phone interview with the HR guy at the museum and it went pretty well. I have an interview up in Seattle next Wednesday. But, they want someone to start right away and I have other obligations until Aug 1st. Uffda! We''ll see...maybe if they like me they will wait!
I also met with the owner of the private art school. There is no way I can make it back to Tacoma to work for him if I get the job in Seattle...he is going to hold out as long as he can before he hires someone else. He is also hiring me next week to teach him some new techniques. Cool! I met his wife today and they are both great people! So....there you go...that is the update! I need to go cook dinner ....too much excitement! TTFN...JJ
Hi Jill, well it sounds like you have allot of prospects that will hopefully turn up a full time posistion. I am hoping that you don't have to move on top of changing your job. I hope that you find one that keeps you doing the job you love, which must be very rewarding. Don't know if I told you but I have some talent in that area. I have a few projects on the go, but since the lupus kicked in I have not been able to use my hands to draw or paint, for some reasons beyone my knowledge, I end up losing the use of them for a long time. And I find it frustrating to only be able to do 15 minutes at a time and then waiting for three or so days for the pain to ease up. So I end up putting the pictures aside. What I am trying to do is three canvases for my grandson's room, based on the pictures of wild animals on his quilt. Cartoonish stuff, but cute. So one is a zebra, one a liion, and the other larger canvas is going to be a collage of several of the animals, and it will match his quilt and basic theme in his bedroom. I hipe to have them done before he goes to school, lol. Then I have a huge project that I started of a wonderful scene in the carribean. Its huge and so far it is really great. I have been waiting for the meds they started on me in Jan. to kick in and they have not. I am actually worse now, so she wants to put me on a short bout of prednizone. To me that is the last resort, but I need to get some mobility. I have so many other things I want to do, and can't do right now. I also have a whole library or art history and all kinds of art techniques and so forth. I just would love to get back at it again. I always loved my art classes too, and I had the best art teachers ever. I also went on the art trip to New York City when I had returned to school to get my diploma when I was 28 years old! We visited as many art galleries as we could. But I always regret that there was never enough time to really enjoy them as I would have liked to. I would love to go back and return to them all and spend some real time doing it. OF course now, I would need a wheel chair to get around. But if I am lucky, using the prednizone will put it into remission, and that could stay with me for many, many years before I have to deal with too much more going on.
So I do hope that things turn out for you, its a path that is so rewarding.
Even if you do the stint with the art classes until something better turns up.
You must be so frustrated! I hope the pred helps and you can get to creating again! Once I stop working at my school, I will have to arrange a studio area in my basement or somewhere! I have been doing my work in the art studio at school and will miss the big tables and sinks.
Wishing you happy creative days ahead! Love, JJ
Wendy....Good to hear from you. Isn't there anything they can give you for the pain? Maybe a lidocain cream or something? I have one that I use. Love Oma
May I be more compassionate and loving than yeterday*and be able to spot the idiots in advance
Oma, I have pain meds, pure codeine, 30mg, 6X a day, and anti-inflamatories as well, but they do nothing for the kind of pain I am having now. They help with the other pain I have from the other problems, and I take up to 9 asacol for the CC pain and to control it. It is just that there are too many things going on at the same time. And there are neurological problems happening as well. You know when they do that little test with the little hammers by tapping your knees to see what reflexes you have. Your leg usually pops right out in a kick. Mine don't do that anymore, and the other problem comes from standing and walking for any length of time. I start to feel severe pressure in my spine and then start to lose the feeling in the sides of my legs, and I can't seem to get my legs to do what I work. They drag, and the severe pain in my knee's cannot take me standing on them, so it all leads to getting off my legs asap. But rest does not get rid of it, so I am limited in what I can do. I still go and get my own groceries, but either my daughter or a friend takes me, but by the time I get out it is pretty bad, and the whole ordeal puts me out for more then half a week or so. And the fatigue is so bad I don't know which is worse? Taking a bath means needing a sleep, and so on. That is why I am hoping that even with the other lousy side affects the prednizone will put me into remission, so that I can get back some mobility at least. Well that's it for now. Oh, I use to use some linaments and so forth, but with this it no longer helped.
You, know, you just deal with it as it comes and find the things that make you happy.
That is a full time job with benefits...don't know about $. I also sent of a letter to a small school in New Jersey and have applications still out all over the country. I am in contact with a temp agency and will try to make an appoinment to meet with them next week. I may not need their services, but want to get things in place just in case. Still finishing up teaching...next week is finals week....and....still trying to pack-up 23 years of teaching stuff.... 
I just want this to be over.....so...that is my update....TTFN...JJ
