minor update
This morning, I stumbled out of bed and into the living room to check online for school cancellations because I do not have television. I have a television, but I receive no channels, and so I utilized the channel 40 website for my cancellation news. Anyhow, as the comp is turning on, loading, bringing upthe website, I hear squeaking. I turn and squint in the inky dark of my living room and see Tobias, my obese feline, pawing at something. AH...another mouse. My apartment has a lot of mice for some reason. Lately, their numbers have been dwindling...at least I hope...as there have been many a slain mouse. I saved one a few weeks ago, but that involved a great deal of effort, and at 6:30 am, I was not feeling all that heroic. SO I went back to bed, hoping I had indeed correctly read the Holyoke Public Schools were closed and assuming there would be a dead mouse to tend to later.
But there is no mouse corpse...
A mystery!
Anyhow, in other news...Audrey and I have a mini Xmas tree. It was free, left by the woman who had our apartment before us. We have decorated it with multi-colored lights and multi-colored glass balls. There are red lights in the kitchen to serve as both decoration and a lightsource for at night or when we leave so we don't return to a pitch black casa. It is both festive and reminiscent of a brothel. Now we need stockings to hang!
Classes are going better. I cracked down a bit on the kids, but they are adapting well. Sometimes I still panic, but mostly I am ok. I am doing Macbeth and Gatsby currently. I like those both and am comfortable with them. SO...thats nice!
I am happy. Which is frightening. That sounds annoying...but basically what I mean is that things fluctuate in mood and awfulness...and if things are good, I worry that something will go wrong, it has to. The nice thing about everything being awful and having gone wrong is that "It can;t get any worse"
Well I am happy and it makes me nervous in that things could be worse...which is all stupid.
But I am very happy and I feel very lucky and whatever karmic good I did....well, im glad i did it.
:-)
But there is no mouse corpse...
A mystery!
Anyhow, in other news...Audrey and I have a mini Xmas tree. It was free, left by the woman who had our apartment before us. We have decorated it with multi-colored lights and multi-colored glass balls. There are red lights in the kitchen to serve as both decoration and a lightsource for at night or when we leave so we don't return to a pitch black casa. It is both festive and reminiscent of a brothel. Now we need stockings to hang!
Classes are going better. I cracked down a bit on the kids, but they are adapting well. Sometimes I still panic, but mostly I am ok. I am doing Macbeth and Gatsby currently. I like those both and am comfortable with them. SO...thats nice!
I am happy. Which is frightening. That sounds annoying...but basically what I mean is that things fluctuate in mood and awfulness...and if things are good, I worry that something will go wrong, it has to. The nice thing about everything being awful and having gone wrong is that "It can;t get any worse"
Well I am happy and it makes me nervous in that things could be worse...which is all stupid.
But I am very happy and I feel very lucky and whatever karmic good I did....well, im glad i did it.
:-)