You can see it coming from a mile away.

One of the things I REALLY hate about my job is getting sick all the time. Well, not ALL the time. But more frequently than usual.

The kids sneeze and cough anywhere, and on anyone/thing. They'll turn their heads and sneeze on me, and I just look at them and say, "Seriously? What in the WORLD was the point of that?! WHY oh why do you hate me?!"

So, needless to say, after I got sneezed on by Braden on Monday, and Luke on Tuesday, I got sick on Wednesday. And God help me, I'm going to sneeze and cough on all those little devils so they'll get sick too.

Muahahaha!

I'm not really just evil. I'm an evil genius, hence the laugh. And I'm also all about karma, even if I have to actively make what goes around come around. Haha.

I really wish people could look at things from another person's perspective. People that possess an inability to do this really infuriate me. Well... ok yeah, infuriate. Also frustrate. It's not that I'm an expert in the art of empathizing or sympathizing, but I do think I'm pretty good at trying to see life from another person's eyes.

But when you offer one person a job and they quit, and someone comes along who is really in need of a job, and you only offer them HALF of the open position, that, to me, is a little bit heartless. What in the world is it to you if someone else is hired? Someone that's needed, in fact. Because, just a little tidbit here, the staff we have now is actually ILLEGAL because we don't have enough people for the number of kids that are enrolled. Sorry, but that's just not right. I really like you, I really do. You're funny, and you would do anything for a friend. But why is the same position not opened to a person in need, just because... what, you don't know them? They're not the pastor's daughter? Or is it because you never leave your office and you don't know what it's like to work with all those kids, at all those stations, in that short amount of time, with less people than is legal to have?

I'm just frustrated. Someone whom I love dearly, and is wonderful with children, and who I feel God has sent to work with us at just the right time, can't work because you're not willing to see things from her perspective. Or from my perspective. Or from the other teachers' perspectives. It's ridiculous.

And I've been trying to see things from your perspective. But I cannot, for the life of me, see why it's like this. What is it to YOU if someone who's needed works for those hours? First of all, we need another person. Second, it's not like her salary comes our of your paycheck. It's not like you have to worry about that one bit. AND you already had someone working those hours, so the church was obviously prepared to pay that much. So I really don't understand.

I think I just need to let it go, but I just have this little... voice that keeps saying... "What are the odds that Hil just quits her job that she hates the same day we find out that Julie can't work at the preschool anymore?" The odds are pretty slim from where I'm standing. So slim, in fact, that the first phrase that came to mind when I learned of these things was, "God thing." It was a God thing... or so I thought. And I can't decide if I should keep trying to get my mom to say something more, or if I should just let it go because if it was a God thing it would have been worked our already. Maybe trying to get my mom to say something more is part of the whole God thing. Who knows... I guess only God does.

So can I win the lottery now?