Today I had to deliver additional paperwork to the various offices where I dropped off my applications yesterday. Let's see, I had to provide my District and Superior court clearances, my police clearance, my college transcripts, and my DD214 showing that I was honorably discharged from the Navy. The DD214 is a laugh. It is a copy of a copy, and that was charred in the house fire in 2003 so the edges are all uneven and burned.

Oh, and the Department of Education wanted my original transcripts, thank you very much. I told them they would only get a copy until they hired me. I was applying to other places and the winning employer would get the original. But they don't want to keep them, they just need to look at them to verify that I have an original copy.

This job thing is very complicated. And expensive. I had to shell out $5 for the police clearance, $15 for the Superior Court clearance, $26 for the District Court clearance, $125 for the Praxis Test to get my teaching certificate, and $28 for the TB test. This is ridiculous.