{"id":41,"date":"2003-02-02T15:32:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-02T15:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.95.25.178\/maggie\/2003\/02\/02\/red_letter_day\/"},"modified":"2003-02-02T15:32:00","modified_gmt":"2003-02-02T15:32:00","slug":"red_letter_day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2003\/02\/02\/red_letter_day\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Letter Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today began a little too early, with a phone call from the school in Boucherville. I got to be the gym teacher! It&#8217;s always nice to work in sweats. I had a good day, a lot of good kids, and three of them told me I was beautiful.<br \/>\nDoes it count as MILF status if the kids are too young to know what the F means?<br \/>\nI got home, made myself a nice cuppa, and went through my e-mail, which included a message from Elizabeth about a job posting she got. I read the post, decided it was something I was interested in, and sent in my CV around 3 p.m.<br \/>\nAt 3:45, the phone rang &#8211; it was the woman doing the hiring, who wanted to meet me. Half an hour later I was in her office (please note, this means not only did I make it back across the bridge to Brossard in under 30 minutes, I also had time to change from Gym Teacher to Interviewee). She had one other candidate to talk to after I left.<br \/>\nShe called me at 5:30 to say the job was mine.<br \/>\nSo, starting Monday, I&#8217;ll be teaching an adult education course on the basics of Word, Excel and Powerpoint, two nights a week. Essentially, this is the same deal I almost got from the college in Ottawa, except that this one seems more likely to happen, and it&#8217;s not in freakin&#8217; Ottawa.<br \/>\nAlso in today&#8217;s email: an interview with a Web-based learning company to teach English, and another one with a corporate learning company to do the same. And I still had time to call and arrange a meeting with the school at which Colin will be registered. Next week, he&#8217;ll officially be part of the system.<br \/>\nTo sweeten the already-scrumptious day, during the interview she gave me another job tip &#8211; apparently there&#8217;s an outlying French CEGEP that&#8217;s desperate for ESL teachers &#8211; and gave me names at Concordia and McGill in reference to a Certificate program in Adult Ed &#8211; in other words, I could do an abbreviated certificate, rather than the complete B.Ed., which would still make me more attractive to CEGEPs. Of course, according to my students, more attractive is not possible&#8230;<br \/>\nAnd now the hubby is on a Haagen-Daaz expedition. What more could a girl ask?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today began a little too early, with a phone call from the school in Boucherville. I got to be the gym teacher! It&#8217;s always nice to work in sweats. I had a good day, a lot of good kids, and three of them told me I was beautiful. Does it count as MILF status if &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2003\/02\/02\/red_letter_day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Red Letter Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-learning-curve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}