This is rough

I've started working in my new classroom, and it's rough to say the least. The teacher who was there prior to me had few (if any) routines or guidelines for the children to follow. Things as simple as washing hands with SOAP and water after pottying weren't being done. Gross you out? Yeah, me too. So I get there at 8:00 everyday, get an hour for lunch in the middle (where I can't go home because it's too far and gas is too high), and get to "leave" at 5:00. Although, I have yet to actually leave at 5:00 because I have to stay and do things in my classroom that I couldn't do with children there. So I usually get home around 6:00, completely exhausted. Most days I could just go to sleep right then. But no.

Then, I have been writing thank you notes, doing school research, looking for apartments, working on this middle school band thing I'm doing, etc. Somebody just give me a decent job already. Originally, I had thought that I can just stay at the job I have for the summer if nothing works out in Chicago. Then I got paid today and realized that I only make $7.00/hour. I make less than a gas station attendant and I have a college degree. LAME. So, can't do this for longer than like 2 months. Some people live on that salary and I just don't know how. That means I absolutely must must must must get a teaching job for the fall. Ugh. If you have any leads, let me know. I just want the job fairy to visit after I go to sleep tonight and lay a contract under my pillow. Can you arrange for that? K, thanks.