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Well, I graduated from college. That means I now have to get a job. After all, that is what I went to college for, right? – to be able to get a decent career that didn’t entail manual labor?

I already interviewed for a teaching position at Houston County High School: my wife’s former position as 9th grade English teacher. Even though the school is nearly an hour’s drive away from our home I would still be ecstatic to land the job. Of course, it would be wonderful to teach at the school less than two miles down the street, but that school is roughly four times the size of HCHS. In addition, I already know the HC administration and faculty pretty well and love them. It really is a great school; it reminds me of the rural Kentucky school in which I grew up.

In anticipation of such a commute, I have begun trying to get my wrecked sedan back into working order. My hatchback is running wonderfully (although it is due for a new battery), but the sedan has air conditioning. It would be a huge frustration making the hour-long drive home every day at 3:00 p.m. with the sun blaring and no A/C. I have also been investigating the possibility of adding a factory A/C system to the hatchback; it looks as though I could accomplish it with very low expense but a lot of elbow grease. My hatchback also was the recent recipient of a new CD player to which I can directly connect my Ipod and control from the deck – best graduation present ever (from my beloved wife, of course).

Plan B, if I don’t get the HCHS job, is to go visit the different principals at the local high schools so they can have a face to associate with the ridiculously long application they will be looking at. Always helps.