I have that Tom Petty song “American Girl” stuck in my head, for anyone who was wondering about the title.

Thanksgiving was on Monday here in the Great White North (it’s more of a harvest celebration here rather than the celebration of pilgrims landing and bringing the gift of syphillis to the native americans, which is why it’s in October– that would be when the Canadian harvest typically ends). My family had our Thanksgiving dinner on Sunday, though, to accomodate various peoples’ working schedules– and I’m pretty glad of it. Why? Because of the dreaded Turkey Belly. We ate lunch. Which included turkey, baked potatoes, various vegetables, cranberry sauce (homemade, not the canned kind), stuffing, and apple pie. I was SO FULL, people. Rob often jokes about how sometimes his dad eats so much that his stomach expands to twice its normal size and is hard to the touch– that’s how I felt. And yet! Everytime I walked through the kitchen, I’d see the bird carcass and have this inexplicable urge to go pick at it. Do you know what that means? I’m carrion! Anyway, it was good to have Monday to recover from the Turkey Belly. Although I don’t think *anyone* ever fully recovers from it. You’ll always have the flashbacks, you know.

My week has been going pretty well, otherwise. Last Thursday afternoon I substituted at the high school in town– Grade 11 law and grade 10 french. I’ve forgotten how independent the gr 11′s can be (grade 10, on the other hand, can be just as bad as primary kids). On Friday I was in for a grade 2 french immersion class. Not bad, especially since the afternoon was spent on a field trip (we went to the Jubilee to see some Jillian Jiggs play which sucked but hey, what can you do? The seven-year-olds liked it). Tonight I’m working at the night-school-jobbie, and tomorrow I’m in a grade 1 french immersion class. With only 10 students. Hoo boy. It’s been, like, almost non-stop. I paid all my fees last Monday, and by Tuesday afternoon I was getting calls. So it’s good to know that I’m in the system. Yay! for working! And not going insane from it!

Speaking of insanity (okay, not really) — Rob recently linked a list of 50 useful tips for people with adult ADHD. I of course haven’t been able to concentrate on reading it (little joke there. About >< that big) but I think it’s time to go ride bikes now, right? No, anyway. As someone with ADD it made a lot of sense to me.

Oh, and one little complaint about work and then I’ll shaddup because hey at least I’m working. The teaching french at night school thing — we had to have our hours in on the 27th of September, and were to be paid on the 6th of October. The sixth came and went, and there was no pay in the bank for me. I was sad. Other people said there was something weird going on with their pay too– they’d received a weird amount or something. So today (yeah, I know, the 11th) I phoned my boss to see what was up. “Oh, yeah, I meant to call about that last week– we messed up with the pay codes so you’ll be getting your pay next week instead”. Er, gee, thanks for the info. I know that for some people this is extra money but for me, at the moment, this is my livelihood (and thank goodness Rob’s still getting EI or we wouldn’t have been eating– wait, that’s not true, how could I forget about the Turkey Belly?!).