Align Lap, Await Job, PLOP!

So Lizzie's prediction about a teaching job magically dropping in2 her lap @ the last minute, cuz of being a Patterson, came true. She wrote in last nite:

I have very exciting news, though I know you are expecting it, I got a job today! It is in Glenallen Public School which I am not sure exactly where it is just yet, you know I am not good with that sort of thing, but it is close by home here, that's just what I wanted as you know.

Just like I told Paul, I didn't have to interview at all for this job, they just called up and offered it to me out of the blue, I don't even think I sent them a rezoomay. I promised to come in for what they call an orientation interview tomorrow morning, even though I already have the job, they just gave it to me over the phone without meeting me.

Right away I called Mom, of course she is the most important person to talk to first about all these things, I told her the story of why there was suddenly a job opening for me. This one teacher decided to get divorced from her husband and move home to England, she decided it so fast that she just ran straight to the airport when she decided and called up to quit her job, it all happened in like 15 minutes or something. It is like fate wants me to teach there, it must be meant to be. Mom said "See what did I always tell you, the Good Witch of the North always provides," I giggled, I love that Mom always remembers how Glinda was my favorite character from The Wizard of Oz.

When I called to tell Paul he told me this teacher leaving town story sounded very suspicious, almost like it was a made up story or something, but no, I told him it was true, and then he said it still sounded weird, and that nobody would act like that, and maybe she was getting deported or something, and I had to keep telling him that isn't how it worked at all, this woman just decided at the last minute to just pick up and leave her husband and her job right away that very same day. Paul kept saying "that doesn't happen" so I had to hang up on him, I was very upset.

But I'm so excited about getting a job, I filled up my four quart saucepan to the top with Kraft macaroni and cheese and then I just ate all of it straight out of the pot while I talked to Mom, it was such a great treat. I kind of spilled a lot down the front of the shirt I was wearing though, it is hard to eat and talk at the same time, food falls out, but it was okay, Shiimsa ate the stuff that hit the floor.

I will tell you more information when I know it later, if I feel like talking that is.

So, yeah, this does sound like the work of a certain Someone whose name we don't say around here, lest she shrink us 2 baby size, give us zits, unleash our mirror selves, turn us in2 dogs, or disappear us. Or prematurely age us. Or doom us 2 more than a decade of menopause. We've learned 2 B v. v. cautious.

Well, congrats, Liz, I know this is what U were hoping 4. Guess U've gotta get bizzy w/yr lesson planz & acquainting yrself w/yr new school's curriculum and all that fun stuff, eh?

Apes