*yawn*

I'm *so* tired. Bone aching exhaustion, but in a good way. After I accepted my new job, I turned in my two weeks notice. My second week would have been last week. Because my former employers are cheap freaking bast.... oops I mean, intensely focused on the most cost effective mutually beneficial solution, they decided to make it one week. (Truth being they didn't want to give me any holiday time for the 4th. They did the same thing to another women who quit) Because I had already said I would start my new job on the 10th, I got a week of vacation =)

We took the boys to the Cleveland Zoo. It was a lot of fun. Now I had heard that Cleveland was a pretty cruddy, run down place (Zoo included), but I was very pleasantly surprised. Very clean, lots of animals, 'trams' to the outlying areas, lots of picnic areas. It was a really fun day.

As soon as I found out I got the job, I reregistered for the fall. For day classes!!!!! So now I've
got French 1, Intro to Sociology, Music as a world phenomenon, and Basic Learning Processes. I'll still be finishing off all electives (except language) and I got an upper level psych class. Yay!!!! Although could someone please explain why I am now paying double the cost of an evening and weekend parking pass, yet I am not allowed to park anywhere near my classes? What kind of B.S. is that?!?! Do they not realize I am old??? And fat???? I am almost nearly a third of a century old and that is far too old to be hauling my tubby butt around campus, thank you very much. Let the young, nubile children frolick to class. If I'm paying $110 for the privelage of parking, I think that privelage should include parking near the classes I will be taking. /rediculous rant off.

So although I will be taking the night shift, I have to come in during the day for training. Hence the exhaustion. I am by nature a night person, so on the week off I got used to staying up till 1 am, and sleeping in. I am now up at 6 am to drive the hour to work. The work seems fun, and challenging. And a bit overwhelming. It's in an industry I've never worked with before, but doing what I've been doing since high school. From what my trainer said, I'm doing very well so far. I'll be on the phones the next couple of days, which supposedly doesn't happen normally until the 2nd week or so. I hope it works out, the people seem nice and the atmosphere is so much more relaxed than the pit of evil was. So now I just have to get used to getting up early again (in time to switch to my evening shift =) ) So I think that's it. Once I've been there a couple of months, and my brain unfreezes I should be ok =)