I guess I’ll give you a quick life update. I wasn’t going to, because I don’t want to sound like I’m complaining, but I’ll fill you anyway…

I’ve spent the last few days at school, trying to get some work done in order to get ready for the year. In addition to this, I’ve been dealing with quite a few things that have come up for the business. It’s fairly exhausting. Not because I necessarily end up working a lot of hours, but the mental drain is tremendous. I’ve been put into a position at PDS with a fairly large amount of responsibility, but it’s a new position, so there’s no one to train me. Whereas new teachers get mentors and are part of a division and a department, I have none of those things. But many people expect me to already have a good idea of what’s going on and how things work at the school, and so that’s difficult. Then to try to run a business on top of that….

Which is not to say I’m not enjoying it. After a summer of doing NOTHING, I was fearing that my skills were starting to atrophy (along with my body). I think, to an extent, this is actually true. So hopefully I’ll begin to sharpen again, because if it doesn’t happen quickly, I’m going to find myself sinking rather rapidly. It’s nice to be working again, though. It’s nice to have a sense of purpose.

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Now, see, this just confirms what I’ve been saying, which, to me seems to be common sense. If you’re exposed to something, you can build up a tolerance to something. So, for god’s sake, stop coddling and over-protecting your children! Let them drink tap water! I know there’s impurities in it. IT’S GOOD FOR YOU! Let them eat a little dirt. It won’t kill them, and it will, in fact, make them stronger!

I kinda like being in my office at school. It makes me feel more productive. I’m sure I’m not being more productive, but I FEEL more productive.

I just had a student stop into my office, and I couldn’t, for the life of me, remember his name. That’s going to be a problem. I met lots of these students last year, so they probably all think I remember their names. And I’m REALLY bad with names.

Here I am in my new office. It’s kind of depressing, actually. I need some stuff on my walls. But it’s getting there. I have some furniture now, which is good. I’m trying to do some work, but I’m really bad at motivating myself. I feel like maybe it’ll be easier when the school year starts and there are kids around. Or, maybe that’ll just make it harder. Who knows? I just need to make myself do it. Okay. Here we go…

I guess I should have seen this coming. Now that school will be starting soon, which means I’ll have to devote a lot more time to PDS, I’m getting all sorts of business calls. Oh well. You’re not going to hear me complaining about it.

Wait, you probably are. But I don’t really mean it. It’s just that I’ll be busy and stressed, and you’ll have to hear about it. Don’t say you haven’t been warned.

I’m feeling the burn. Spike, M-D, Ali, and I just got back from working out. It hurts. But it’ll be good. I need this. I’m out of shape, and I really need to get into shape. I would, sort of, like to lose a bit of weight, but really I want to add a lot of muscle, so I don’t expect I’ll actually lose weight. Which is fine, as long as the flab turns into muscle. With any luck, we’ll continue to do this at least three times a week, if not five (which would be ideal). Wish us luck!

There’s something about this picture that I really like….

Change the time to 26 years ago and change September to August, and you have me.

I have a problem. I HATE to be “out of the loop” or to miss anything fun or to not be in on any inside jokes my friends might have. Now, 4 of my friends are living together in an apartment. This means that I’m bound to miss out on quite a bit. I feel like I’m going to end up spending a lot of time at their apartment, but I really can’t and shouldn’t, what with having a wife and all (oh, and occasionally needing to work). I guess I’m going to have to get over it.

Or….maybe they can all agree to just not have any fun without me.

I have just discovered that I have the ability to ruin ANYTHING, and that in general, I always manage to screw everything up.