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Apr. 21st, 2002 06:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckAfter calling my father, I called my mother. She was considerably more cheerful. She passed the bar which apparently she had thought she hadn't. She didn't say so, but I suspect that her doubts were the source of her bad temper last time I called. She's considering job possibilities. I have the impression that she's not sure she likes the best one that's offered so far. It's with a law firm that does disability cases. The problem's not with the job as such; it's with the fact that the firm's for-profit. She got her law degree about 1980 and has never since worked for an actual law firm.
I asked her about the possibility of meeting her in Knoxville to get the books that she and my step-father no longer have room for. If I can meet her there, I can select the ones I want instead of getting all of them. I'll also have a chance to look over the knick-knacks and furniture that they can't take to the new place to see if I want any of it (and if it's worth trying to find storage for it until we actually have enough space for it). There are a few things that I really covet but can't figure out how to manage. They're getting rid of some hardwood dressers, the kind with the large vanity mirrors, bookshelves, tables, you name it.
My mother needs to go to Knoxville in order to get the house ready to be put on the market again and to arrange for someone to take care of it after the term ends. They've had law students house-sitting since last summer. If the place hasn't sold by fall, my mother says they'll rent it out. I need to try to find a way down there (preferably not by bus), a place to stay and a way back. It'd be much easier if I could drive. Maybe I can talk my brother into going with me…
Of course, there's a bit of a hitch in getting him to take trips at the moment. The company he's working for will cut his health insurance if there's ever a week when he drops below 40 hours. (They've done this a few times already.) He then has to work at least 40 hours a week for 90 days in order to get the insurance back. The company doesn't give vacation time at all and occasionally deliberately cuts the hours it assigns employees in order to cut off benefits. Our mother says this is probably illegal, but she hasn't been able to talk him into making a complaint to the state office that regulates such things.
I asked her about the possibility of meeting her in Knoxville to get the books that she and my step-father no longer have room for. If I can meet her there, I can select the ones I want instead of getting all of them. I'll also have a chance to look over the knick-knacks and furniture that they can't take to the new place to see if I want any of it (and if it's worth trying to find storage for it until we actually have enough space for it). There are a few things that I really covet but can't figure out how to manage. They're getting rid of some hardwood dressers, the kind with the large vanity mirrors, bookshelves, tables, you name it.
My mother needs to go to Knoxville in order to get the house ready to be put on the market again and to arrange for someone to take care of it after the term ends. They've had law students house-sitting since last summer. If the place hasn't sold by fall, my mother says they'll rent it out. I need to try to find a way down there (preferably not by bus), a place to stay and a way back. It'd be much easier if I could drive. Maybe I can talk my brother into going with me…
Of course, there's a bit of a hitch in getting him to take trips at the moment. The company he's working for will cut his health insurance if there's ever a week when he drops below 40 hours. (They've done this a few times already.) He then has to work at least 40 hours a week for 90 days in order to get the insurance back. The company doesn't give vacation time at all and occasionally deliberately cuts the hours it assigns employees in order to cut off benefits. Our mother says this is probably illegal, but she hasn't been able to talk him into making a complaint to the state office that regulates such things.
