Some Random Bits of Information
It's late, and it's been a busy week, but I figured I should at least post something since I've been trying to do better about keeping this place updated. So here are a few brief blurbs:
1. As of Tuesday, my degree evaluation at UNF has been corrected. I should be walking in December. If I am not for some reason, you will find me in jail because I will have murdered someone on campus responsible for stopping me for some idiotic reason.
2. I have officially moved more little furniture from one classroom to another than I ever want to move again in a long time. For those of you who might know, I teach an autism self-contained classroom. I have taught Prekindergarten, Kindergarten, and First. I would have had first graders this year but was approached at the end of the last school term to take the PreK/K kids because the teacher hired so we could add a 6th class preferred older kids. I accepted, but the district sent a TON of new stuff for the PreK classroom so it only made sense for me to move with the new stuff (and my old, teacher made stuff) into the new classroom. I have worked for the past 3 days (without pay since planning does not start til Monday) to move all the stuff and set up the room. Man, hard work. My entire body is sore.
3. I am having another quiet, lonely weekend. I don't go to bars, I have no social life, and I'm an introvert. Despite this, I really do like to meet people and get to know them. But it's the meeting part I find difficult, especially since I'm a Jacksonville transplant and I don't have anyone here to take along with me to go places. While I'd like to meet some people, I don't really feel comfortable going out alone to do so. I guess I might go to a nearby coffee shop some time tomorrow and just sit with my laptop, just to get out of here for a while. But I'm not sure how this will help me meet anyone even if it gets me away from home. This really sucks.
1. As of Tuesday, my degree evaluation at UNF has been corrected. I should be walking in December. If I am not for some reason, you will find me in jail because I will have murdered someone on campus responsible for stopping me for some idiotic reason.
2. I have officially moved more little furniture from one classroom to another than I ever want to move again in a long time. For those of you who might know, I teach an autism self-contained classroom. I have taught Prekindergarten, Kindergarten, and First. I would have had first graders this year but was approached at the end of the last school term to take the PreK/K kids because the teacher hired so we could add a 6th class preferred older kids. I accepted, but the district sent a TON of new stuff for the PreK classroom so it only made sense for me to move with the new stuff (and my old, teacher made stuff) into the new classroom. I have worked for the past 3 days (without pay since planning does not start til Monday) to move all the stuff and set up the room. Man, hard work. My entire body is sore.
3. I am having another quiet, lonely weekend. I don't go to bars, I have no social life, and I'm an introvert. Despite this, I really do like to meet people and get to know them. But it's the meeting part I find difficult, especially since I'm a Jacksonville transplant and I don't have anyone here to take along with me to go places. While I'd like to meet some people, I don't really feel comfortable going out alone to do so. I guess I might go to a nearby coffee shop some time tomorrow and just sit with my laptop, just to get out of here for a while. But I'm not sure how this will help me meet anyone even if it gets me away from home. This really sucks.
posted by StargazerGirl at 7:51 PM
2 Comments:
You know, it NEVER works to intentionally go out TO meet someone. What does is just go somewhere, and if it's a place you like, keep going there. Often there are people who like going to that same place, and they might go on a fairly steady basis. Just as wanting to meet someone as you are.
But going out to a coffeeshop once in awhile and then hiding your head in a laptop or something is not conducive to meeting someone. Going there at a fairly set time, the same evenings out of a week, because you LIKE to go there, MAY end up with you meeting someone doing just the same thing.
But you have to give it a chance. AND LOOK AROUND YOU, AND USE EYE CONTACT. If someone catches your eye, a simple smile is all you need to do, then go back to whatever.
Another great place to meet people is at a science fiction convention. No kidding!
Hey, have you heard of meetup? It's a site where people start groups on a variety of interests, then meet in the real world once or twice a month. I discovered a science fiction group two blocks from me! There's also a group that goes to movies and has dinner after, a group that tries different restaurants in the area, etc.
It's not dating, the meetings are usually in public places so it's safe, and you can see who is attending by RSVPing on the site.
Check it out. If you don't like a group, don't attend the next meeting. At worst, it will get you out and meeting folks, and you'll already have at least one thing to talk about, as you're both attending a meeting of a particular interest group.
There are currently 217 groups in Jacksonville:
www.meetup.com/cities/us/fl/jacksonville/groups/
Good luck!
--smacky (who vividly remembers being shy and friendless in a new town... more than once in his life!)
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