Don't Call It a Comeback

After a nearly seven month hiatus, I have decided to make an honest effort to document once again the minutae that is my daily life. The hiatus was not entirely intentional, but I did need a break from continually having my life in the spotlight of celebrity.

Of course, most of my readership has more than likely given up checking here and it will take some time to reach pre-hiatus levels. I suppose that is the exact same lesson that the producers of Lost are learning the hard way. I also noticed that all of my archives are no longer linked from the main page due to the changes google made to blogger's system. The pages still exist...I am just not sure how to find all of them. If anybody has any idea, that would be most helpful.

Well, there have been numerous changes in my life over the last seven months. For starters, I am no longer living the roommate lifestyle. Because of my former roommate's impending nuptials, I moved from Montrose over to Pasadena on December 26...which put me about twenty minutes closer to work, as well. When I moved out, it was somewhat of an eye-opening experience to discover how little I actually owned. Thankfully, he gave me the dining room table and one of the couches. And, because I just switched apartments with his fiance, my place came with Direct TV and Tivo already included. The rest of it I have had to slowly acquire on my own. Although it is all a bit piecemeal, I now have most of what I need. I do need some bookshelves, so I can proudly display all of the books which I fully intend on reading someday.

Other impending purchases include the necessity of a new computer, as this one is now about 4 years old and takes almost 10 minutes to completely boot up. This can be aggravating.

In other news, I have been dating my girlfriend Kristy for nearly five months now. She lives in Fullerton, which is about forty minutes away. It can be hell getting down there on a Friday evening...but the payoff is well worth it. Some of you have already met her...others will meet her sometime soon, I am sure. She works in the financial industry, dealing with retirement accounts or something. Everytime she tries to explain her job to me, I try as hard as I can to listen, but usually end up glazing over after five minutes or so.

Over Spring Break, I was one of the chaperones on the eighth grade field trip to Washington DC. It was exhausting but, man...it was fun. If you want to see pictures of the whole experience, I have posted them all on my flickr account. Just follow the link that says My Pictures.

This school year is winding down (26 days, I think!) and then I will have a week off before summer school starts. I'll be teaching remedial math again this summer...which makes for an arduous five weeks. But, once that ends on July 27, I don't have to be back at work until September 4. I haven't decided yet what I am going to do this time, but I don't think I can afford another big trip this summer.

I have, of course, been retained for next year- which means I will have tenure, so that is pleasant. I am still stuck teaching math, but I am keeping my fingers crossed for a social studies position at the high school next year.

Well, there is more to report, but I am going to go ahead and leave you with this little slice of my life. Don't worry- I'll be back soon.

I been here for years.