Sunday, August 31, 2008

best second date ever?

Following dinner we took a walk around the neighborhood, jumped a fence into the veteran's cemetery, made out amongst the headstones, and then used a grad student's dorm bathroom on the way back (with his permission).

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Dude, it's been a super busy month here on NBC. First the Olympics, now the DNC, next the RNC. My Netflix are being woefully ignored.

Next week is the first week of school. I expect to be SWAMPED. In addition to (omigod) teaching again, I am doing the partial group and an opera run-through thing with the choir. I will be glued to the tube in the evening lest I miss one second of political coverage. While also having a social life, which I worked on very hard this summer.

Wish me luck.



Also I wrote this a few months ago but never hit "publish."

Thursday, August 14, 2008

sixth hundredth post

I just spent the past half hour watching Nadia Comaneci routines on youtube. She is amazing. Is it just her, or did gymnastics used to be more dance-y and less aerobic-y?

Friday, August 08, 2008

so far, August rocks

My new job is so incredible that all I want to do is talk about it. I love my coworkers, I love my curriculum, I love the fact that we can go to LACMA once a month. Today we workshopped at this private school and planned out three months of advisory activities. Advisory is like homeroom that we do for the first half hour, four days a week. Fellow teachers can attest that having three months planned of ANYTHING already done in August is a Huge Fucking Deal.

Tonight is the opening ceremonies for the Olympics so obviously Glenda and I have a full evening of international snacks and activities planned. I can't hardly wait.

Monday, August 04, 2008

changes

I've gone through some pretty huge life changes in the past few weeks. Now I'm on the other side and ready to write again.

The smallest of the changes was that I didn't have a computer for a month and a half. That shouldn't be a big deal, but it was. I stopped emailing people, stopped checking my websites obsessively, stopped procrastinating by "researching" on Wikipedia. I started reading again and forced myself to social plan the shit out of my weeks. Since June, I've hung out with every single friend and relative I have in town. I've read five books and went to the movie theater a few times. I painted my TV armoire which I've been meaning to do since 2007.

The biggest change was my job. I am helping to open a brand new middle school in LA. This is huge. I'm completely happy to be out of South LA and oppressive LAUSD. I am ecstatic that I finished the joke that is BTSA and now have a Clear Credential. I love my new coworkers. So far it has felt like a dream job. For example, we take a Red Mango break every afternoon and walk across the street to get frozen yogurt together. For another example, the school is providing us with black MacBooks. For the last example, I get to teach ancient history. Pyramids and shit.

The last change is that I let go of the emotionally unavailable fuck buddy I've been involved with for the past year. I always knew this was something that wasn't going to last, but I didn't want to give it up. Plus, it was super fun and made me feel like a better person (as convoluted as that sounds). As soon as my new job started, I realized that it was the ideal time to make a clean break. He took it very well and we were able to have a nice goodbye (with hot sex to boot). No hard feelings on either side and I'm welcome to call or not call him as I please. There is obviously no question that this was the right thing to do.

I haven't missed writing on this website because I've been trying to live outside my head. But I really miss the processing aspect of it. Once I get it down here perfect, I don't have to obsess or talk things out to seven different people. It's almost like therapy, but I would say it's closer to REM sleep. I've been meaning to make sense of everything again and so it's good to be back.