New Month, New Outlook

It's been a while since posting anything. The last two weeks have been pretty... lackluster.
Between finding out I wasn't going to have a job, to getting sick and having to cancel our long awaited trip to Harbin... It seemed nothing was going our way. Or my way, at least. Super Husband's woes have been purely empathetic.
But, after sending out what felt like hundreds, but was probably still dozens, of resumes and applications I have good news. I've been tentatively offered a new position with a well respected English school here in Beijing.
I'm excited. I did a demo class yesterday, and I was really, really impressed with the level of English that the 4-5 year olds understood, and spoke.
Now I'm just sad that I didn't find that kindergarten to begin with!
As my mother has pointed out, it's all an experience.
I just wish my bout of flu last weekend didn't cancel our Harbin experience. I was all set to be a trouper and see it through, but like a good husband Super Husband shepherded me back to our apartment when I turned a disgusting puce color and almost passed out on the subway. While we did loose the money spent on our tickets to Harbin we were able to get an almost 100% refund for the return ticket, which was a huge relief when we didn't know where our next paycheck was coming from. And even more so when your pay from January isn't forthcoming.
The school I worked for until Thursday at 5:30 is 15 days late with the January pay for four of its English teachers. For the past two weeks we've been hounding them, cajoling, and generally becoming rather fed up with the continuing lies about where the money went, and why it isn't in our accounts. It's really rather annoying, and also somewhat suspicious. There's a new administration making all kinds of changes, and one of those changes is that the English teachers aren't getting paid.
If we're not paid by next Monday Zach and I are going to go to the main office, which is a trip I don't want to have to make.
But now, it's time to make myself a mocha (instant coffee and instant cocoa... spare no expense for luxury, right?) and get ready for my tutoring student to get here.