mixed homecomings

Hello all! I'm back on the west side after a quick jaunt to Spokane to hang out with my parents and brother. As you may know my brother is going to a be a senior at Notre Dame this year and while he's enjoyed it, it was not a decision my parents fully supported. He's majoring in Political Science with an emphasis in Arabic and Peace Studies, and to everyone who knows him, he's a really bright going somewhere going to do something kind of person. Which is why it is so totally unthinkable to the majority of us that he is determined to join the Marine Corps Officer training program (or whatever it's called) when he graduates. It's really frustrating to my family because he doesn't seem to get that it's not the kind of organization where you do more humanitarian good than anything else. It's a strange low-self-esteem thing he's got going on, the need to be a "hero" by whatever means (and he thinks the Marine route is the best for some reason). From my family who tends to be the more peace activist stance it's just so strange. So that is what most of my family time revolved around and it's left me out of sorts.

Now that I am back at my own house (and doing a LOT of cleaning) I'm back on the job hunt. Well, I was until I heard about this. I guess August won't really be my month. I suppose subbing it will be again this year. Until mid September I guess I'll have to find something to do, maybe work at the public library (if they haven't frozen hiring too).