My son, Mike, who should be starting third grade, missed school today. He’s home recovering from a weekend of vomiting and fever. It’s a good thing I wasn’t supposed to start working at Pemberton today. Linda didn’t want me to, because she isn’t going to be at work tomorrow, and she didn’t want me to be unsupervised my second day on the job. In any case, it would not have made a good first impression to miss the first day of a new job.
It’s also a good thing that the new job caused me to cancel all of my substitute teaching assignments. Paula, the sub scheduler for the Kingland school district, had me booked every day for the next two and a half weeks. It was a shame to have to break off with them just when they were getting to know me and send more work my way, but even if they kept me busy every day of the school year (which they couldn’t), the job still wouldn’t pay as well as Pemberton, and I have to do the best I can for my family.