Back To Work

It has been an odd month. Not so much as odd strange, but my parents have come and gone and stayed for 2 weeks. I think they were bored in my small town, god knows I am.

1. I signed a 26 hour a week contract it is now 37 and as with anything, the quantity vs quality scales are changing their balance. 33% more work than I want to do.
2. I created a timetable, assessed the students through dialogue and interview and placed them into groups accordingly. 40 people in fact. So why on the last day before the commencement of the contract and the classes does my boss call me on a Sunday night at 10pm to go through a radical change of classes size and level and make me squeeze out another class? Why? Money. He wants as much money as he can extract from the company as possible. completely unnecessary from my point of view but he feels needs to leech as much as he can by creating bullshit groups of students.
3. I spent a fair few hours interviewing the students and also the taxis to and from the company, on 3 separate days no reimbursement for taxi or my time, for the interviews, or curriculum design and research for books etc. (many hours worth)
4. The Contract that he signed with this company is for a year. and he wants me to complete it and so does the company, i have 4 months left on my contract, do the maths... he will be 8 months shy.
5. My boss wants a key to my apartment, so he can come in when I don't answer the phone. Which is 1% of the time. Now, like anyone with a phone it is always a choice to answer the phone or not. He calls me any time and expects me to jump. Come to a meeting (unpaid). Come to the office to talk (unpaid). Maybe I should ask him to give me a key to his house.

So I have some grumbles. Some dear reader you may think they are trivial and some completely valid. But this growing dissatisfaction I am having initially brought on by the collapse of all my holiday plans, (No rest no rejuvenation). My stomach problem never left me and it really wears me out quickly., I need to see a specialist about it and have an MRI or something. Now I have to up the energy output and push it up a greater hill called February. I am already dark and shitty about all these small things but they are valid and I will burn out...

On the upside, having my family here was a good thing, all the talks about the old times and the family updates and generally the info. Having some mum cooked meals was nice, but I must say my dad was a trooper and prepared most of the meals. I prepared none - where is the equity! hahahahaa!

We went to Malbork castle with my friends and had a beautiful dinner in a town on a lake. The restaurant sat at the edge of the lake and the sunset was magic. all were happy and laughing after a hard days castling... We went to old cities and went sightseeing and shopping. My parents saw fit to buy out many a shop and provide me with more plastic containers nic nacs and do-dads than I will ever need, but I guess they needed a mission each day to get outta the house. they took photos and spoke Polish and had adventures, all in all a relaxing time.

I have enough in my life but there is one thing I don't have and its sorta the key to balancing this upside down pyramid of fun... having that would make all these grumbles and anger vanish in seconds, - Obi