"if i was young, i'd flee this town" ... Beirut-Elephant Gun

In less than a day I will be basking in the warm Washington, D.C. sun. How fabulous. Life isn’t so bad… I guess.

Things I should be doing but am not:

1. Planning my lessons for school today
2. Going to the bank to deposit checks/talk to personal banker cuz I’m poor.
3. Packing my stuff for DC (I leave in hmmm 17 hours and I haven’t even began packing yet.)
4. Doing laundry
5. Booking a ticket to go see my bro-bro and his family in KS before he leaves for Iraq
6. Sleeping
7. Reading A Long Way Down
8. Eating cheese (that’s my effing favorite)
9. Learning Spanish so I know what the eff people in this office are saying since I’m the only one that doesn’t speak Spanish in my office…
10. Selling raffle tickets for work that are due today- that I forgot at home
11. Playing my guitar
12. Eating anything. Sometimes I forget to eat … like today… wish I had food right now … all I’ve got is a damn apple
13. Making the six posters that need to be done by 6:30am tomorrow
14. Researching how to meet up with Claire-baby in DC
15. Drinking Spotted Cow… DRINKING SPOTTED COW
16. Still need to be planning my lesson for today- recess all day? Does that make me a bad teacher?

I have no motivation to do anything right now. Dammit, I wasn’t supposed to graduate college, yet. I am supposed to still be in Madison, Wisconsin, living the college life. How could the advisor just pass me along without all the required courses? I tried my best to delay my graduation. I picked up two extra majors for crying out loud! Sadly, my four years that I was allotted in Madison (and Wisconsin) has expired. I missed so many cool Wisconsin things already since the 7 months I’ve been gone. Snow days, tweeting opportunities with Kait, sauerbraten with the fam, Obama in Madison, the Badgers making it to the Rose Bowl, Packers winning the Super Bowl, sit-ins at the capitol to demonstrate the collective bargaining rights for teachers, and oh so much more. Oh Scott Walker, why did you have to come into office a year after I left?

Well I am not in Wisconsin. I am here I am at my big wooden desk at the Apopka Family Learning Center in Apopka, Florida. I am not protesting anything (besides work), or at a championship Badger game, or hearing Obama speak. I am instead eating an apple, drinking green tea, preparing myself (mentally) to teach my class of 25 students, and listening to my boss have a meeting with some woman while her 2 year old son stares at me from across the room. I’m as far from Wisconsin as I can get without leaving the country. I’m a little bitter about missing all the history that Wisconsin is making. Florida- can’t you do something interesting?

Randy says my blog is boring (indirectly of course ;-) ) and I believe him. Last night we brainstormed things to make it better. We decided that next year I’m going to travel. I am going to buy more mini dinosaurs (I’ve already given quite a few away). I am going to go wherever the wind blows me. I am going to interview people wherever I stop. I am going to transcribe my interviews and put them on my blog. I’m going to give the interviewee a dinosaur. I am going to post their picture with the dinosaur to my blog. It’s going to be sweet… it would be sweet.

It’d be sweet if I could actually afford to do it… silly money- always getting in the way. He had an idea for that too, but unfortunately, I’m not technologically savvy enough for that idea quite yet. Maybe someday I’ll reveal it to the world.

Maybe my blog is boring because my life is boring? AHHHHH when did I turn into an adult working for “the man”? oh to be 21 again…

I guess I should start working on that “to do” list …

Peace out from the desk of hvoss