Casey's Return

Monday – August 16, 2004

Casey’s back, and the transition seems smooth. I’m sure I’ve made mistakes along the way that she will have to clean up, but she’s up for the task. I handed over her office keys, which I had forgotten to leave with Yinka. I told her my network password so that she could go through my email files, and I showed her the things I had done. Other than that, Casey took it from there, and I was left to surf the Internet. I had plenty of messages from the weekend, so it wasn’t bad. I’m working at the station of the silent data manager guy who is on contract break himself until 24 August.

I forgot to bring a towel, so I couldn’t go to the gym. I don’t think I’ll go anymore. There was an accident at the gym last weekend where someone nearly had his back broken after a locally built piece of equipment fell on him. I’m about to go anyway, and I don’t need to run up my driver bill. After all, Eddie charges $200,000 Zim to drive me one way to the airport.

I hung out with Kirk some when I got home before I went back to the cottage and found that the shower worked. After taking a nice shower, I made some soup for dinner. I need to finish off as much of my food as possible, but whatever I don’t eat, I’ll just leave. I spent the rest of the night packing clothes that I won’t wear this week, watching movies, and finally the Olympics. It was exciting to watch the Olympics live, especially the men’s gymnastics team, which won silver. Then Richard called, and we had a good talk about my coming home and just what’s going on at his school. Apparently, some teacher in the Spanish department is spreading gossip about Richard and myself, and also telling dirt on her department head, saying he sexually harassed another male teacher in the past. Richard had to complain to the principal. It’s none of the kids’ business what goes on in a teacher’s personal life, and it’s certainly should not be fodder for idle gossip between teacher and student.