Times are a-changing…This past weekend, I realized that the year really is about to end and that I don’t really feel as if I have accomplished much of anything. By my apparent lack of posting, you must realize that life has been “work…work…work” and I really have had no time…well, check that…I did have some time to post, but I was too tired and wanted to nap or do something else (e.g.: eat, take pictures, go to a banquet (first APO one I’ve been to in a year), etc.).
Yesterday, I spent most of the afternoon with other teachers from work at my vice principal’s home for a potluck. It was very nice. Good food, nice, intelligent conversations, and the most perfect weather (it has been breezy all weekend despite the warming trend during the week making the back yard and pool at the potluck a very cool place indeed). I did not do much “hanging out” with people from work last year, but it is very interesting, finally, to see these people outside of the business environment. Many of them are very different as individuals when they are not constrained by the boundaries of the school code. Remember that old assumption that all teachers must only exist at school and that they have no life outside of it? Most students assume that still and, even as a teacher and knowing so many of them now, I think I still assumed that in the back of my mind. But, slowly, it is sinking in that…hey, teachers, including myself, are human too and they have lives that do not have anything to do with school.
Anyway, to update you all…
1) There is one more week of work left this year…yea!!! I’m about burnt out this time around. Sleep, here I come…
2) Last week, the Alpha Phi Omega banquet I went to was…how shall I say this politely?...looooong. The program lasted more than four hours. There were two half hour slide shows and numerous other things. Usually, the senior end of year farewells take long, but this year, they did not. They were really short and sweet, but the other stuff just killed the evening. The program just did not run smoothly. There was a lot of lag time. People started to run off and take pictures or do other things in between each thing and the room had to be quieted down every time, making it even longer. Next to us, we had another large party with loud music and I felt uncomfortable to walking through it to get to the bathroom or the lobby.
3) The day after the banquet, my sister and I were having our usual weekly lunch and saw Kalen and ate with him. Later that day, he, Keith, and Charlene, Dave, and I went to see Sum of All Fears. The movie was quite good. It was non-stop “what’s going to happen next” moments throughout the movie. Very cool!
4) Lately, I’ve been doing even more Photoshop collages. School is ending, banquet, and just plain good weather, have prompted me to take a more pictures, and it has been worth it. For my student collage, I had a 97 layer document…yikes…It was 250 MB big…and it still worked…haha. I was very surprised. My old computer on my desk usually crashes after I have about 10 layers and start to think about doing filters. I guess new computers really have come a long way…I just did not have the opportunity to test them like that until now. I still love my Mac ( I know, blasphemy for some of you) so much more than I like the PC I’m working on…just for sheer video processing power and editing. PC’s so have to catch up. This 1.4 GHz computer can barely import video through its firewire without dropping so many frames (noticeable ones) while the Mac just does everything (beside the waiting for videos to export to quicktime) very quickly and effortlessly and without fail.
5) And finally, I’ve been sleeping. Yes, sleeping. For some reason, I have been napping a lot lately and not by choice. Almost every time I sit before the television or try to read or anything that require some sitting (even some driving times) I get really tired and fall asleep for hours at a time. I admit I get up at 6 in the morning, but when I get home, I usually don’t sleep till 10 or 11. Lately, however, I’ve come home and taken a 4 hour nap and then went to bed for another 6 or 7 hours of sleep. And, on the weekends, I feel really tired too. I don’t know…maybe some chemical or psychological imbalance of some kind. Who knows?
I’ll try to keep this updated among other things this summer. I want to start doing regular routines…exercise, eat, sleep…in cycles that my body will like and hope my sleepy grogginess and naps go away. If anyone is interested in helping me keep these routines…please do not hesitate to call…I’d love to have company in the exercise department…I just do not know if I have the willpower to just keep going and going and going every day…but, again…Who knows? Till next time…