One of the Perks

The kids may get annoying, the other teachers may be neurotic, but there is no better job than teaching. Especially when you get the call for another snow day!

Taking Survey

So there's been two things on my mind lately, both of which are largely unrelated, but hey I thought now might be the time to poll the small audience of peeps that I have out there to ask for thoughts or advice.

Scenario #1 The Lost Friend
The first is concerning an old friend. He was my best friend throughout my entire high school years and then we were still close at the beginning of college until we managed to mess things up severely by dating. Post this kind of akwardness, there was distance between us for about 3 months and then he disappeared for a couple of months. I almost refuse to go into the details of how all of this played out, but needless to say, at the end of the day we (some of his other friends and I) found him still in OKC but distant from his family and still not speaking to any of us. The end result was that he fled to avoid telling all of us that he was gay. I have thought of him for years, and I have kept up with his wherabouts based on the rumors of people-from his travels to Dallas and back-and through various jobs in the city. I recently again ran into someone who is still in close contact with one of his sisters and she said that he has a "My Space" page and her recommendation was to tell me to go check it out and see if he responds. I honestly don't know how I feel about this. I really miss him and I miss his friendship, but inevitably alot has changed between us.

Part of me wants to contact him to tell him that I love him dearly as a friend and that I would never reject him, but I don't know that any of that would even be relevant to him anymore. As a matter of fact, I don't know that he would want to confront such a painful portion of his past. I know that it would be nice to resolve some of that past, but I also don't know how a possible future friendship would precede. I've been hanging onto this information for about 2 weeks now, but I have yet to do anything. Suggestions welcome.

Scenario #2 Starting a Journal
I am more up in the air with this because I am worried about the "cheese" factor. Kate, you reminded me of this when you were talking about reading your grandparents' journals. I was thinking of how little I wanted to listen to my mother when I was going through the obnoxious pre-teen phase and how she had tons of really awesome advice that I just wasn't able to listen to because I always thought that her advice was biased against my friends or my boyfriend, etc. And I started wondering what it would be like to start a journal for my little girl. One that just carried my thoughts about womanhood, life, love, honesty, etc etc...You know, something I started before I even knew her. Something that is a way for her to see what her mom thinks about life and the world without thinking that what I am saying. There just aren't many times in a typical week that any parent gets to have heartfelt conversations with their parents about values. As a matter of fact, at least in my family, the majority of the value discussions came when an argument was in place and it seemed more like my mother was lecturing me rather than trying to show me what was important. So anywho, I want to do it, but I also don't want it to seem stupid or cheesy. Worth my time? Or just junk the thought?

Thoughts appreciated on either or both. 'Til then I'm still stuck in the house and waiting on round 3 of the weather to strike.

Let It Ice

Okay, so now I am back around and I have absolutely no idea what in the world to blog about. I suppose I'll do my little life update, and wait until something more incredible inspires me this weekend.

I am now entering my 6 month of pregnancy, which is largely why I haven't blogged in awhile. Too big of a life change and I didn't want to be that person. You know, the one that becomes the non-stop whiner about babies, children, yadda yadda yadda. Unfortunately, that pretty much is what I am becoming whether I want to be or not. It's just to big of a change to think about much else.

Thank goodness t.v. has kept me occupied enough to give me something less lame than pregnancy. I have been a big fan as of late of Top Chef that airs on Bravo. I am even lame enough to read all of the celebrity/judges blogs about the show. I won't talk about it now, because once I start rambling about the show, I am unlikely to stop...however, just in case you are interested, I've linked the blogs for Top Chef in my sidebar.

Job's going great, although I am starting to realize that most jobs are largely the same. There are substantial benefits to this job, the lack of micromanagement being the primary benefit, however some drama went down this week and I was left wondering if any school system is really that different from any other. The drama, by the way, was all centered around whether or not a student is allowed to use copy machines. It took four teachers and two administraters four days and roughly 7,000 e-mails for my school to conclude it wasn't that big of a deal for kids to run a few copies. Oh, melodrama what would I do with out thee?

Not much else on the horizon, although at some point I will pull the really motherly thing an post some possible room borders and colors and you folks can help me pick out some nursery colors.

Until then, I guess I will "enjoy" the ice storm in the city and hope to God the power doesn't go out...

Too Hungry

But I am going to be coming back around. I'll be posting again soon!