today i decided i'm a child in almost every sense of the word ( Read more... )

fire doesn't turn off.

it goes out.

period.

today i felt the most defeated as a teacher as i ever have ( Read more... )

today was the first day that i was spotted in public by a student. (i honestly thought it would be sooner than this ( Read more... )

Happy birthday to me (about a month early ( Read more... )

between teaching and coaching and driving i'm not really doing much of anything else but working. it's going really good. i love my school and everyone i work with and the students (and swimmers) are great as well. everything is looking up ( Read more... )

i found an apartment. I'm signing a lease today. hopefully. i will move in next week, little by little, and then hopefully i can get the majority done on the weekend if i ask my family to help ( Read more... )

today at jewel i bought a six pack of fat tire in twelve ounce bottles. this will be the first time i've ever had it that small. also, i bought (by the same company) a six pack of skinny dip. this means more to molly and jim than anyone else, but let me tell you, i was excited.

i also bought roses for myself cause steve doesn't.

the kids keep singing "burn baby burn" and though it's not to the tune of disco inferno at all, i now have the song permantely stuck in my head. as i'm sure you do too now just cause i wrote about it. i'm so sorry. i'll put a warning in the subject area ( Read more... )

you know those little kids that you knew when you were in high school and they were in grade school? like younger siblings of your friends and those kids friends. well, to me they're not supposed to get older. they're still the same age as they've ever been and now i see pictures of them in high school and college and it doesn't look right. like ( Read more... )