Not Your Average Jane

An honest 7 year old admitted calmly to her parents that Billy Brown had kissed her after class. “How did it happen?” gasped her mother. “It wasn’t easy,” admitted the young lady, “but three girls helped me catch him.”

This is one of the reasons kids just make you smile, ya know? They remind you of when life used to be simple.... That’s part of why I want to teach. That’s from my year long teacher calendar, its got a bunch of little stories and stuff about teaching. I don’t know if they’re supposed to be inspiring, but they are. At least to me.

So anyway, I got back to Arkansas Saturday night and went to bed at like 11:30 and slept till noon Sunday. I wasn’t tired or anything… (sarcasm) So lets see, Thursday night I spent debating whether or not to go see Mike McClure at the Firehouse… I wound up doing laundry instead… I love Mac, but I gots to have clean clothes too! :0) Friday I spent running last minute errands all over the Houston area… Ok, so it was around the Galleria and River Oaks, but that’s my idea of what the Houston is… :0) Friday night saw Return of the King with Mom as we were the only 2 people I know who HADN’T seen it… So after 3 and a half hours I was thinking, good movie, kinda long, and GAWD I GOTTA PEE!!! Exactly in that order no less… :0) The drive back was long and tedious once again. I got started late since Mom wanted to talk to me about school and Spring Break… We’re thinking about driving through the hill country and seeing if we can find any early blooming bluebonnets… That would just be kick ass… :0)
So I get back Saturday, see Los Lonely Boys on Austin City Limits, fell asleep (out of pure exhaustion not cuz they’re boring – cuz they definitely are not!) about half way through… So Sunday was spent unpacking (still not done) and watching TV… Saw that Tupac video, Dying to Live, and I got to thinking about something one of my friends said and I found myself agreeing emphatically… He said that 2Pac was a prophetic like or psychic, man, cuz its like he saw his own death… How insane is that? On top of that the video is just haunting and just plain… sweet….
Also found something really funny on one of my Yahoo groups, or was it galleywinter.com (I can’t remember) where Wade Bowen was being made fun of, which is ALWAYS fun… Blamo said,"If Wade had a clone he could stand on his clone's shoulders and you could call him Wade on Wade." That so just cracked me up… And according to someone else, Wade said it when he was drunk and just imaging that just made it even more hilarious…. I also read a bunch of stories about the Big Ski Trip in Steamboat.... Some funny shite went down.... ;0)
So today was the first day of class… Cheapest tuition and books ever, seriously…. A little over 8,000 for tuition, room and board and just under 200 for my books… Pretty sweet deal… Classes so far seem manageable, though I have an 8 oclock 2morrow morning, but I’m done by noon… So in a way its good, but it also sucks… Oh, well, I’ll live and I may even eventually adapt! :0)
In other news, I finally washed my car… First time in monthes… I spent like an hour washing and drying and Windexing the beast… And now she’s all pretty and ready to go… Where I’m not sure, but we’ll figure it out when we get there! Laters!

posted by Ali @ 5:59 PM