Exciting Things From My Life

As promised, I shall try to stave off the drought of bloggery on my part.  These last couple of months have certainly been eventful—I actually finished a large writing project, my girlfriend returned from foreign lands, I got to see my eighth grade students move on to high school… oh, and I graduated from college.

I am now lazy college graduate

To the first point, I completed my senior project  which ended up being 80 pages or so with the intent to expand it to novel length.  It’s a story about people who do things and go places. If that synopsis isn’t enticing enough then: it’s a story about people who do things and go places, and then they learn stuff about life. Seriously though, if anyone reads my blog and actually wants to read the story—send me a note, I can give you a copy.

Pictured above: a book that is not my senior project 

To the second exciting event in my life, my girlfriend has returned from her travels abroad. Apparently Spokane was not exciting enough, so she flew away to Florence. Despite the distance, we made our relationship work through a judicious use of Skype and instant messaging.  It wasn’t fun, but it is wonderful to have her back—even if it means I have to start showering again. So far there has been much couple-y activity, including such exciting things as driving to Pseudo-Portland (Vancouver), and watching the Dragonboats. The most disappointing aspect of the affair was that not a single team named themselves DragonBoat Z. All in all, I’m thankful to have the old ball and chain back in my life. Also, Portland is still silly.

Somehow the joke never gets old 

Today I came back in to the classroom where I did my student teaching this semester, and it was a pretty great experience. Today was yearbook distribution and signing; while I may despise writing anything by hand, it was worth it to see the students light up as they read (or attempted to decipher) what I wrote. My mentoring teacher surprised me with a yearbook of my own which was fantastic.

Artist’s rendering of my penmanship 

I’m trying to ease back in to the  process of regular blogging, so I’ll end the post here with a few thoughts

1.)    Portland is silly, but Powell’s is fantastic.

2.)    Long distance relationships are not ideal—but I apparently am awesome enough that my girlfriend resisted the tempty ways of the Italians.

3.)    I might try to develop a format for my blog so that I have more structure. Maybe I will keep the idea of updating with Exciting Things from My Life.

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