connections

over my lunchbreak today i was reading a blog of a friend i worked with at camp eyons ago and it linked to another old camp friend's blog. i looked at that and found a link to her husband's myspace (also a friend from camp). i clicked on that and becuase myspace has that section of "friends" i found several names i recognized and friends from way back at camp and church(so that killed my intire lunch break and i had to inhale my food to get back to work on time).
i also had weird connections at work. the girl i was working with this afternoon worked at the kinder i'm at now last year. she ended up covering for me when i took a sickie a couple days before i quit work in march and came back the next day to cover for the other woman i worked with so i met her then. after talking with the director that day it was decided that she would temporarily take on my position when i left until the council filled the position (she didn't want permanent work this year). she's still there (but that kinder doesn't run holiday programs so she was available for work this week and decided to come back to her old kinder when they called). we starting talking about how things are going back at my old kinder (her temporary new kinder). she's the oldest staff person left there now (and she's still just doing it casually)!!!! the new director ended up having to go on maternity leave early (i think she planned on working up until mid august) and the other woman (who had also just started this year) decided it was too far to travel and ended up getting a job at a kinder closer to where she lives. it was great finding out how all the kids have been doing there (apparently they still ask about me all the time-- i only knew them 6 weeks). the last parent tonite was over 45 min late tonite (the dad didn't know what happened to the grandfather that was supposed to pick up the girl-- hope everything is alright) so we had lots of time to talk about everything going on at the old kinder, why i resigned and stuff like that (the girl that was left with us was really good and just played uno with us while we talked). it made for a VERY long day though (11 hrs at work-- minus an almost 1hr lunch break). tomorrow i babysit all day. i think going to the aquarium should kill a good part of the day though 8)