Oh, sorry about the disappearing act

I'm so embarrassed that I haven't posted in months. As usual there are dozens in my brain, but they are unaccessible. The longer I waited the more I felt bad about not posting. I'm not sure what to even post about. There is much I could say. Let's see. Topics I could cover in this and future entries:
- this year at school
- this year at home
- life in London
- my kitten, Ernest
- my older kitty cats
- the book I'm reading
- having the flu

Probably the few people who read this want me to write about my marriage/divorce. The only thing I will say is that I am divorced legally as of the end of April. If you need to know anything further you can ask me and I may or may not tell you. I'm not talking about that now. Not here.

This year at school? It mostly sucked. With all of the utter shit going on at home - divorce, moving, surgery, poverty - I was not exactly a focused employee. Add that to the fact that I was teaching in a new country with an entirely different school culture, in two very different departments, in 17 different classrooms, with classes and age groups I had never taught, and let's just say I'm probably lucky to still have a job. I credit that to the fact that I have always worked so hard that a year of slacking looked kinda like a year of regular work to most people.

I did not enjoy teaching this year and I don't want to go back to it next, but I have to for the money. I do plan to make some changes to be a better teacher next year. I also plan to make a showreel for voiceover work. I'm going to scrape together the cash to do the showreel early in the summer. I'm good at character voices. I'd love to do it. That and volunteering/working with animals who need me. And maybe writing. But I kind of suck at that, don't I?

So I guess my point here is I'm around. I'm doing pretty well and just sorta going through life as it reaches me at this point. It's not where I wanted to be at 35. It's not where I think I really deserve to be. But things happen. I'm fortunate to have an apartment and two jobs and enough to eat and clothes to wear. I have friends, even if most of them are in other continents. And I have in my life experienced real, true love.

I still have faith.