I finally had purpose!

I had purpose on monday! My agency finally phoned me for a supply day. I ended up way out the OTHER SIDE of this city. The tale begins at 8:20am when I was still very much asleep. It was a monday and me being myself, I had a slob-day sunday and was banking on showering monday. Now, I could have probably gotten up early and showered and whatnot and then just crawled back into bed in case they called (which i do now every. single. day). However, as the case may be, with the odds in my favour in this gamble, i stayed in bed. I awoke to my ringtone and wondered "this is odd, who's calling?" and lo and behold, at 8:20am, my agency was calling me to come to the aid of a school who had a teacher call in sick that morning. I think they may have noticed that I sounded groggy and freshly woken, so the lady assumed "oh, so you're not really ready to go to work then are you" and my response: "not right now, but I can be in 5 minutes". So great, i got directions on what tube to take and I told the agency lady to tell the school that there was no way I would be getting that far by 9am. It takes 20 minutes just to get to the other side of the downtown core most days.

So with the help of hairspray and bobby pins, i fixed the mop on my head. I literally whipped out the clothing I keep on top of the pile in my closet specifically for teaching emergencies and threw them on. Gathered my stuff and was out the door down to the central line as fast as i could. My commute was going well, and at about 9:10 I had surfaced out of the underground still on the tube (but on a different line - i had switched to the district line for the final part of my journey). Called the agency for the rest of the directions (which they texted to me), and they were shocked that I had made it that far that quickly so of course, it was assumed I'd be at the school around 9:40.

That's when everything went downhill. My train conductor announced that the final destination of the train had changed and was now stopping BEFORE the station I needed. So I de-trained. Waited 4 minutes for the next one, got on, and ended up at my stop. Then it was time to embark on a bus. The bus took 10 minutes to come (and it was raining. joy). Then, about halfway to the bus stop I needed to get off at for the school, a dump truck had decided to park in the MIDDLE OF THE ROAD and was clearly not leaving until his job was done. That took a good 10 minutes. By the end of it, I got to the school at 10:18. Right before the kids went off to morning assembly (a daily thing in that school) and their morning recess. Great.

So the rest of the day went very well. We altered our schedule a little bit to include all the important lessons that I needed to cover. Thankfully the lady I was subbing for went handout photocopying crazy and I was never at a lack of activities for the children. Bless those teachers who do that.

The restaurant I gave 6 hours of my time to on a trial shift never called me back. Thanks, jerks. Not even to tell me that they were going another direction. Not exactly the kind of place I'd want to work for anyways if that is how they conduct their business.

But on the up side, I will get paid for monday, and I learned my lesson. I now wake up at 6 or 630 (depending on whether or not i really need to wash my hair that day) and am dressed by 7. make up on, everything. Call the agency and tell them that I am available to work and am ready to go at a moment's notice. No more of that "i haven't showered in days and here i go to work" thing. Never. Again.

We shall see what the rest of the week brings. However I must say even working ONE DAY has  lifted my spirits. Now a few more days and I'll be one happy bird.