500 Word "Ketchup"

Wow. It's been almost a year

since I entered this domain. I have been tweeting, writing some letters and texts, but despite thinking about blogging almost everyday, have not ventured back. I am ashamed to say how deleterious it has been for me, yet I have still avoided it. The catharsis and joy of accomplishment I got from writing posts was apparently not enough to encourage me to continue to do so, despite personal promises.

But now I'm back! I received some encouragement and motivation from a rather unlikely, and unexpected place: an erotica podcast. called "Kiss Me Quick's Erotica: Sexy Stories with Rose Caraway  (http://www.thekissmequicks.com/) where she preludes a story with a hint for returning to 'Daily Writing'. She said before you get on social media, write at least 500 words. In your journal, or blog, or notebook; wherever you write and however you write: fiction or personal, etc.

She then takes a screenshot of her word count and shares on Instagram as sort of an accountability insurance; for some reason this was what I needed to hear to finally inspire me to continue my saga here, and I'm grateful to her. I think I'll let her know. Here is the post that inspired her to begin writing again, and share her success with the concept: #500 Word Project

Instead of going back a year to play catch up, I think I will work backwards from now... so I don't get 'blogged down' with digressions and excess rambling. And before I start adding personal anecdotes and interesting asides, I'm going to try and stick to the subject matter, which is work. Though I have to say, I feel as if I've already written 500 words, and it's only 263, so, apparently this is not quite as easy as I maybe figured it would be...

I worked Summer School!

They call it ESY or Extended School Year for some reason; I never got a clear answer as to why. It was only 4 weeks, for 4 days a week for 4 hours a day, but I rode my bike (trying to get back into that after hurting my back last Fall) everyday (until the last week when it was over 100 degrees here) which was about 45 minutes each way, so the day felt longer to me. It was all ages of SPED (Special education) and quite fun and interesting to see and work around the littler kids after having been in the high school all year. Special needs students range vastly with a wide variety of behavioral and physical problems that mean they need extra attention and support in and out of the classroom. It includes kids with varying diagnosis of autism, neurological disorders including seizures, and mild to severe physical disabilities. Some of them are barely able to read and write, while others simply don't have the ability to sit down and concentrate long enough to do so. But they all have their own positive accomplishments and just need as much help as possible to learn what they can. The genuine smiles you receive from a special ed. student when things are going well is a great reward for an often difficult and challenging job.

I am honestly proud to say I am a little over my #500 so I am going to keep it basic and stop!

Sincerely, The apathetic job seeker