Saturday - Grouchy, crowded. Window installers took over our house. Kids tired, grown-ups irritable - everyone had shitty attitudes. We bought a new couch and ate a decent lunch. Eventually we ordered pizza for dinner and all went to bed early ( Read more... )

It's fall. I'm teaching again, so it's busy. We're also doing things to our house like taking out walls and adding doors, so that adds to the busy. Even with all that things still don't seem too crazy. Maybe it's this glass of wine talking ( Read more... )

the bells in that song give me such a strong sense of the outskirts of san antonio in the late 1980s. big open streets with just a few houses. wide treeless tracts of land in summer. driving with my reckless teenage friends. high. windows down. blustery and warm. dramatic clouds making the open sky seem low and heavy.

long time ago.

This dude opened his car door and jerked off at me when I was walking my dogs this morning. He stopped about 1/2 a block in front of me as I approached a quiet neighborhood intersection. He flung open his driver door to reveal his naked bottom half, hung his left leg out the door, and gave his dick several swift tugs. Then he drove away. He was sly ( Read more... )

Dear Livejournal,
Please don't tell, but I submitted my resume for a new job. I love my current job and thought I would stay there forever, but the Universe may be calling... shhh

Abby's class spent the last several months designing a fantasy world diorama. It's HUGE. We got to see it this evening. It was incredible. I am so grateful for this ( Read more... )

The school year will be ending in a couple of weeks ( Read more... )

What the hell? We're under a black cloud over here ( Read more... )

teaching grownups - is comfortable, natural and awesome. i'm so proud myself ( Read more... )

Today's attitude - not so great. I'm finding that Saturdays consistently make me crazy. I even woke up and went to weed the garden at the school this morning. It should have set me up for an optimistic outlook for the whole day ( Read more... )

I'm totally back on coffee after stopping for a month or so. I stopped as part of this cleanse in which I stopped (but in reality, reduced, because I'm not so disciplined) a number if things - caffeine, alcohol, sugar, animal products, and wheat. The cleanse was interesting. I felt pretty good. I enjoyed not having coffee for a while. Mostly I ( Read more... )