Local Celebrity Gets A New Job

If my life were a paper, that would be the headline.
The day staff came to work the other day and looked at me and started straight into laughing hysterically. Turns out that the whole community decided to frame 'fire safety week' around my little hospital fire incident. Which means that they put MY bagel and the toaster on display at the fire hall... the display that all the school kids are marched in front of. But that's not all. Even though it's a proven fact that it was an electrical fire, there is now a radio ad published by the fire department that goes like this:
"This is a safety message brought to you by the fire department. Never leave a bagel unattended in a toaster." Note the specificity. Not "never leave a toaster unattended" but "Never leave a bagel unattended in a toaster."

You wouldn't think something like that could incite pride, but I was MAD and humiliated. No one knew that it was me, but I mean come on. Let it die already. Even though it is sort of funny.

And I get a new job... working for a community college in Alberta training new healthcare aides. I have a group of seven PCAs (or Nurses Aides, if you're oldschool) to tutor as they go through their program. It's great! I get to still work on the floor at the hospital, but the extra tutor hours bring me to fulltime or almost full time; plus I get to be involved in people's lives in a helpful and supporting way and hopefully be one of the good instructors that I liked, not the Nazi ones I didn't. I could sure use some prayers though... some of the students are old enough to be my parents and I'm not sure how they'll respond to a 'young upstart'... I hope that I have the chance to teach well, not just mediocre. (good thing I don't teach grammar)