it's long! (that's what she said)
Since I went through the trouble of setting this up I might as well use it, right? So onto the post!
I was thinking a bit about the whole living on my own thing. I am spending more money, have become more isolated from society and don’t wash my clothes as much as I possibly should… but I am pretty happy about it overall. I love my parents and even have started to like them! However I needed to get out of their hair and get them out of mine, plus now I can have all my lady friends over! ;) Nick seems to be out often but that keeps us off each other’s nerves and lets us have decent talks when we are here together. Plus our stuff is guarded almost all the time, so that’s a plus.
Next is the job/career front, I am nearing the end of my first year teaching, it has been very enlightening, though not in the way you would hope education would be. I have learned that everything seems to be political in our world, even teaching. I realized this somewhat early on but was ignorant of the depth thereof, I tried to pull a Switzerland and be neutral, work before school, during lunch and after school, no one can hate the guy that just does his job and gives no one a hard time says, “hi” and is pleasant, right? Wrong. That apparently makes others think you feel you are too good for them and their ilk; I am but that isn’t the point, we should be helping each other to try and salvage the atrocity that is the current student body. Even working together with corporal punishment and using a liberal amount of chlorine in the gene pool we still need a couple of generations to get America back where we need to be. Infighting seems to be the calling of us “Professional Educators” though, why try to improve student’s self-regulation when instead we can argue about how many pictures we want on a Tri-fold?! Bah, I hope that my students leave my class with more than a basic grasp of the German language, I hope I teach them how to *think* not just spew facts back at me.
To a happier front, I have found a person I can stand for more than a few minutes again, here are the weird twists, first she is a girl (born that way and everything!) secondly, she can stand me too! We have been friends for a couple of years (good way to start) and she helped me through a few rough patches in the past. She is a brilliant lady, UT English Major with honors, German minor, and she speaks Russian too! While I admittedly have quite the inclination to the beautiful the mind is my Achilles’ heel, if you will. Speaking of beauty, she is quite the looker, she is into fitness, sadly this led to my impending doom, a 5k for special kids, but the fact that she cares about her outward appearance is a change for the better. She treats me very well which as many of you know/pointed out to me has not always been the case in the past. As with all roses this one does have thorns, we are unsure as to her location in the near future; I have endured long-distance before and hate it with an all consuming passion, however now that I am battle-worn I may fare better if it comes to that. I really like her and don’t plan on giving her up without a fight, I am older now and while I am tied to Houston for the next 13 months I have much more freedom of choice than before, this is the same game but with different players and different rules, I can win this time.
The third front is more for me than anyone else, nutrition and training. I have kinda struggled living at home without any clear goal in mind and the scheduling issues with teaching. Summer is on it’s way which is incentive to be a little leaner but the 5K is serving as a more concrete goal. I hate to do anything unless I can do it well, running isn’t my thing. I can’t be first but I can look the best, thus the goal setting! I plan on walking with Laura but only in shorts so I will look slow but awesome, this will allow for my narcissism while accommodating Laura’s desire to do a race together. I have been dieting pretty hard the last couple of weeks and have dropped a fair amount of adipose, but it was time to refill today. I have a love/hate relationship with refeeds, they serve both a physical and mental role refilling my glycogen stores and letting me break my rules for a short time without feeling guilty. Yes, I have food/body issues. No, you don’t need to intervene. Anywho I hit up Taste of Asia today after school, the food was honestly sub-par though the ice-cream was pretty good. I may have a skewed view as I haven’t had ice-cream in so long I can’t remember last time. I feel bloated and am dehydrated from all the carbs but that will handle itself over the next 24 hours. I am going to the Parentals’ tomorrow after school to do laundry and mow. What a symbiotic relationship we have!
All quiet on the Western front.
I was thinking a bit about the whole living on my own thing. I am spending more money, have become more isolated from society and don’t wash my clothes as much as I possibly should… but I am pretty happy about it overall. I love my parents and even have started to like them! However I needed to get out of their hair and get them out of mine, plus now I can have all my lady friends over! ;) Nick seems to be out often but that keeps us off each other’s nerves and lets us have decent talks when we are here together. Plus our stuff is guarded almost all the time, so that’s a plus.
Next is the job/career front, I am nearing the end of my first year teaching, it has been very enlightening, though not in the way you would hope education would be. I have learned that everything seems to be political in our world, even teaching. I realized this somewhat early on but was ignorant of the depth thereof, I tried to pull a Switzerland and be neutral, work before school, during lunch and after school, no one can hate the guy that just does his job and gives no one a hard time says, “hi” and is pleasant, right? Wrong. That apparently makes others think you feel you are too good for them and their ilk; I am but that isn’t the point, we should be helping each other to try and salvage the atrocity that is the current student body. Even working together with corporal punishment and using a liberal amount of chlorine in the gene pool we still need a couple of generations to get America back where we need to be. Infighting seems to be the calling of us “Professional Educators” though, why try to improve student’s self-regulation when instead we can argue about how many pictures we want on a Tri-fold?! Bah, I hope that my students leave my class with more than a basic grasp of the German language, I hope I teach them how to *think* not just spew facts back at me.
To a happier front, I have found a person I can stand for more than a few minutes again, here are the weird twists, first she is a girl (born that way and everything!) secondly, she can stand me too! We have been friends for a couple of years (good way to start) and she helped me through a few rough patches in the past. She is a brilliant lady, UT English Major with honors, German minor, and she speaks Russian too! While I admittedly have quite the inclination to the beautiful the mind is my Achilles’ heel, if you will. Speaking of beauty, she is quite the looker, she is into fitness, sadly this led to my impending doom, a 5k for special kids, but the fact that she cares about her outward appearance is a change for the better. She treats me very well which as many of you know/pointed out to me has not always been the case in the past. As with all roses this one does have thorns, we are unsure as to her location in the near future; I have endured long-distance before and hate it with an all consuming passion, however now that I am battle-worn I may fare better if it comes to that. I really like her and don’t plan on giving her up without a fight, I am older now and while I am tied to Houston for the next 13 months I have much more freedom of choice than before, this is the same game but with different players and different rules, I can win this time.
The third front is more for me than anyone else, nutrition and training. I have kinda struggled living at home without any clear goal in mind and the scheduling issues with teaching. Summer is on it’s way which is incentive to be a little leaner but the 5K is serving as a more concrete goal. I hate to do anything unless I can do it well, running isn’t my thing. I can’t be first but I can look the best, thus the goal setting! I plan on walking with Laura but only in shorts so I will look slow but awesome, this will allow for my narcissism while accommodating Laura’s desire to do a race together. I have been dieting pretty hard the last couple of weeks and have dropped a fair amount of adipose, but it was time to refill today. I have a love/hate relationship with refeeds, they serve both a physical and mental role refilling my glycogen stores and letting me break my rules for a short time without feeling guilty. Yes, I have food/body issues. No, you don’t need to intervene. Anywho I hit up Taste of Asia today after school, the food was honestly sub-par though the ice-cream was pretty good. I may have a skewed view as I haven’t had ice-cream in so long I can’t remember last time. I feel bloated and am dehydrated from all the carbs but that will handle itself over the next 24 hours. I am going to the Parentals’ tomorrow after school to do laundry and mow. What a symbiotic relationship we have!
All quiet on the Western front.