24 days left

[wiseheart]

On the one hand still too many - break in the new guy replacing recently-retired colleague (who took her last week at school free, pretending to be ill but still capable of throwing a big farewell party at her house) is not something I'm looking forward to do in the last three weeks of my time as a school slave. Men always think they know everything (better), especially middle-aged ones as new guy is said to be. Let's hope he'll surprise me in a positive manner.

On the other hand three-and-a-half weeks aren't that much time if I consider everything I'll have to get done. I've already worked on cleaning the only cupboard I have at school, but the amount of stuff you manage to gather in 24 years is incredible! I still don't know where to put the about ten per cent I'm going to keep - I've completely run out of storage space at home already.

Three more days without gas. I can only hope that they won't refuse to reattach us for some imaginary failings. *fingers crossed* Not being able to cook anything but instant coffee and instant soup is tedious.

Comments

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

I'm a Brit. so instant coffee is standard for me, but I can imagine it doesn't taste good if you're used to the real stuff on a regular basis. Instant soup is truly awful, however. I don't know how I survived before I got my slow cooker/crockpot.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Instant coffee is the work of the devil. Yesssss, Precioussss, it is. Espresso twice a day - preferably the home-made version - is the way of survival here.

Some kinds of instant soup aren't so bad, though. I always buy the Austrian brand in the Aldi supermarket (under normal circumstances for ungodly long days at work when I wouldn't have anything warm to eat otherwise), and while they aren't exactly gourmet food, they are edible.