Dear Tony,
First - excellent sermon. I am so proud of you for presenting such a good message about responsibility. And how very good that others took the message to heart and spoke with you afterward. That is definitely a positive event.
I do hope life is going well in your new building. I also hope you will soon be returned to the Y buildings, but I have to wonder: considering the timing of your sermon and your move, perhaps you are where you are needed at this moment in time? Perhaps you have met some men who are lost and need a lifeline back to shore? I certainly do not know, but I know to trust God and to observe and to think.
I am so glad your pain has been swept away! I know what a distraction pain can be, tempting dark negativity to one's thoughts. Ugh. But it sounds like you are back on an upward path and I am grateful for that.
Funny - when I sat down to write this card, I had thought I was going to talk about other things. Then I read your sermon and just let my pen write as my heart, head, and hand led.
Thank you for that path.
with my love!
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fb flashback from Feb. 27, 2014:
"I was down to my last $41.15 in my checking account, putting off paying Comcast and T-Mobile until after Friday, when the university will pay me my first paycheck of this school year. (That's right, no pay since the middle of December.) Last night, I found my Georgia tax refund in my account!!! Whew! It's just an overpayment to the state of $31.82 per month, but I can go buy groceries now and stop living on pasta and plastic!"
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Megan Jones
I couldn't imagine so long without pay. Glad you're doing ok!
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Faustina Smith
I'm glad I have such good credit that I could make do with plastic for a while. Even so, that was getting tapped pretty hard and will take a long time to get back under control.
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Kristin Stout Doula-Librarian
I've been there, Tina. Shoot, I am there. I can't wait til payday tomorrow.
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Pat Andres
We have dinner- we're nearby.
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Rhonda Curby
Dang girl, way to walk a tightrope. I hope everything is caught up for you soon.
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Susan Small Daggett
NPR has been talking about how there has been an explosion of using adjuncts instead of professors because they are so much cheaper, and how adjuncts are getting a raw deal.
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Faustina Smith
Susan, I have more than 15 years' experience. I'm teaching 1 lecture and 2 Labs... and I net $245/week. That's roughly one-fifth of full-time pay for a beginning professor. To be classified as full-time, I only lack 1 more lecture and 1 more lab. I would go back to full-time in a heartbeat!
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Lorretta Ruggiero
Come to Texas!
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Faustina Smith
I just may be doing that this summer, making stops to visit folks from here to Cal-i-forn-i-a. More on that in a month or so!
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