air-raids, or something like it
after every cardinal game, they shoot off fireworks. maybe it's every game they win, i don't know, but they shoot off fireworks weekly. and every week, i'm so damn tired once these things go off that i think, for a split second, oh my god, i need to go to the basement - we're being attacked.
i know it sounds really ridiculous, because i'm not one of these pathetic people running around waiting for the rapture. it's not that at all. but after a long day of wiping kid asses and working in a school with no air conditioning, where it has been raining for weeks now and it's so humid your armpits have eaten your shirt, it's no wonder to be running for a basement when the damn fireworks go off at 10:30 at night.
speaking of basement though, becky and i bought a house together, which doesn't have a basement.
yes, the becky i was dating some time ago when i stopped writing in this great system that is so much more personal than myspace... but, we bought a house. when? sometime in february, so it's been a couple of months. but, since the quick approach of finals, house stuff has taken to the back burner and boxes have just piled and piled and, seriously, i can't wait for finals to be over.
this year more than ever i have felt like the life is getting sucked out of me. i say this every semester, but it really does seem worse this year. i can deal with school and the organization and the tiredness for so long, and then, after six months, i'm just ready to curl up and die. so much school, so much shit, so much work on top of my job and my relationship and my house and bills and yada yada yada.
i'm not really bitter about this stuff, only tired, and ready to go to bed. but, it's friday, and i'm trying to make something of it and not go to bed on time so i can actually wake up later than 6:30. which, is another shitty thing about going to school. i split my schedule to go to a class, go to work for 7 hours, and then go to some more classes. it's a bad idea, folks. a bad, bad idea. working at a school and being a student at a college makes for a lot of education in the day, even if it's abc's and the formulas for hyperbolas, it's a lot.
how is everyone here? i've been digging through old archives. kind of nice to see everyone is still around. miss it here.
abby