School Open House

So there's a school's open house for prospective high school students tonight from 7-9 and they would like it if all the teachers were there for it.

I don't want to go. I'd MUCH rather go to S&P, obviously.

But I feel like I should go. Then again... it starts with a presentation... probably the rabbi and then the principal will speak, and then two students have volunteered to speak. So I'd be missing all of S&P and gobbling up my whole evening for maybe the hour that was left of interaction. What's more, I'm not sure I'll be there next year, and I'm not sure that it will exactly be a recommendation to the parents and students there to see someone young like me.

Bah. And I know I'm writing this because I want permission from someone else. Because if someone else gives me permission, I'm not responsible for my actions, somehow. Which is stupid.

I feel like its reasonable to not go. One of the more experienced teachers said she'd go iff they served us dinner (which I doubt is happening). If its ok for her to not go it should be ok for me to not go, right?

*sigh* I need to learn to take responsibility for these decisions. But committing on my own to a decision like this is scary!

Computer geek help needed

A good friend of mine, kaidevis, was about to back up his hard drive when it died.

It has all of his job search materials. Needless to say, as an unemployed person, he doesn't have the resources to pay for professional data retrieval, but a lot of work had gone into all the material on that laptop and he really needs the data.

Does anyone know someone who would be willing to do a charitable deed and attempt to retrieve the data from this laptop?

More details in his journal.