Update: I Am Alive

Despite your potential assumptions, I am still alive. My double life as middle school teacher extraordinaire/pale office drone has seriously limited the amount of time I have to do anything other than make and eat dinner, read about former presidents (oh, Mr. Truman, how I love you), drink beer, and beg my bedfellow for head/neck massages to sooth away headaches induced by drinking too much coffee and talking really loud for 6 hours every day.

While I have indeed disappeared from the world of the intertron - I have been busy attending to my meatspace life and have many exciting new developments in the works. Firstly, I endeared myself to my exceedingly agreeable 3-month-old nephew last weekend. His aunt is so hilarious that he's perpetually plagued with hiccups every time he sees me (pictures to follow).

The trip was half a family thing, half a romantic getaway but it was totally more of the previous. Poor Matt suffered through a really brutal Easter dinner with my sister-in-law's family. They are the kind of people who shock you with their ability to talk for three hours without ever engaging in conversation or saying anything interesting. Also, they are really loud. He got me back by taking me to see 300. I crocheted in the dark and thought about how Xerxes was kind of the poor man's RuPaul.

I am nearing the end of my indentured servitude as a student teacher. It has been awesome and I've wowed supervisors with my amazing abilities to educate. I told the kids I'd be leaving soon and when they whined about it I reminded them that a girl's got to eat! Some of them offered to take up a collection - each of my students would contribute a dollar to keep me there for the rest of the year. I could make 102 sweet dollars if I sign on for 7 additional weeks of work. I've been offered a few jobs and am excitedly looking forward to full time employment as a teacher. No more of this moonlighting crap.

Matt and I are also in the early stages of house hunting. We are tentatively planning a move to Richmond in the summer. I hang on to that word "tentative" because it makes me feel less nervous about making big changes. I am looking forward to a new home in a place where there are more that two things to do on the weekend, where friends abound, and where there are glorious paved sidewalks! But I am still a bit disappointed that we don't have the balls to pack up and move to California. Also, selling a house it probably the least appealing task I've ever encountered.

So, I live on. God knows when I will post again - god knows if anyone is still checking anyway. XO if you are!