Night Study Time at Brewster

I am currently monitoring a night study at Brewster Academy. I do this about 2 or 3 times a week depending on the week. I get paid well to do it and usually read a book or read stuff online, but tonight I couldn't put myself to read.

My eyes tired as I once again had work at Gunstock in the morning, then practice, and then this (night study from 8-10 PM). I was bored at around 9:15 I was on AIM and was just looking at random away messages. I saw lots of people had plans: going out drinking, roadtrips, movies. etc, etc. Then I thought to myself am I getting old.

All that stuff seems kind of stale to me. I mean part of it must be working 60 hours a week. I mean I don't go out that often because I am at 7 AM pretty much every day. When I have a day off from Gunstock I still am working at Brewster or refereeing some youth games in Wolfeboro.

To those are reading this, if anyone reads this at all, it might seem like I am bitching about my life. I really am not questioning whether I am finally growing up. I thought I would never grow up and I talked to kids who were out of school and were like, "no man I have get up early for work". I remember thinking that will never be me, never.

I thought about maybe going out for a drink or two tonight but I have to be up at 6:45 and it's probably not a good idea. I used to be 'gung-ho' about going out and having a good time, no matter when work was the next day. Who knows If I am really growing up or maybe my body is just tired.

All I know is that I am looking forward to the break I have from Brewster in March (pretty much the whole month). That will give me sometime to decide what I will be doing for work in the spring and the summer. I may be coaching at Brewster again, but that is not set in stone yet. I like working at Gunstock and may try to stay there and work during the spring and summer. Only time will tell . . .

Random Thoughts

Well, it has been a long time since I've written anything in here and I finally have some stuff to write about. I am working at Gunstock full time and I like it there. The people are really nice and the hours aren't too bad.

I am putting in around 40 hours a week there and about 10 hours a week in coaching at Brewster, and then 10 hours a week and substituting, and then refereeing a couple youth games a week in Wolfeboro when I can.

I knew that finding a job as a journalist out of college would be hard, but I didn't know it would be this hard. I have patience, but for right now I am happy with what I am doing. I am going to apply to teach at Brewster next year and that would be really cool If I could do that. I love being back there and some of my old teachers are still there. They love what they do and I think that I would really enjoy it.

I was writing for The Granite State News, wrote about 5 articles for them. I covered the board of selectmen meeting in Tuftenboro, NH. I got an email saying how my articles were improving and then the following week I received another e-mail saying they were going to use someone with more experience. I was only getting paid 50 dollars a week, oh well.

I am finding lots of jobs online but most of them are looking for a writer with 2 or 3 years experience and at this point I don't have that. I was going to go to California and start to explore the possibility of moving out there and working for Fanscape, the marketing company I do volunteer projects for, but I am going to put that on hold.

I really think teaching at Brewster would be a good fit for me, but who knows. All I know is I am done with school for a while. Thoughts of Grad School came up, but I just don't have the money right now. Maybe down the line sometime.

The Patriots are playing great and I think that there will finally be a Pats/Eagles Superbowl. Let the battling of the Croes and Shelly family begin. The Pats were underdogs, I guess, verse the Colts and the absolutely dominated them.

That is all for now.

Oh yeah Ashlie sorry about this weekend, my bad