Resurrection from the Dead

This may be short-lived (no pun intended) but if any of you are still reading this, I figured it was time to let you know how our boring (and separate) lives are going. Be prepared to be completely unimpressed. Josh and I are living apart again as I'm teaching in my hometown and he's finishing up school in Albany. We see each other on the weekends...sometimes twice a week if one of us has a break.

I'm teaching English to four 10th grade classes and one 11th grade class. I love teaching this year - it's wonderful when you make it past your first year and those seemingly distant voices of encouragement ("Don't worry, it gets better after your first year") are much more apparent and true! I don't have too much to say about my classes (this is a good thing for me) but I have had the (dis)pleasure of doing a few things so far - playing The Simpson's episode of "The Raven" for Halloween, watching a student recover from a spill, actually writing again, sitting through a completely useless staff improvement day (well only half of it was lame), and reading two of my favorite pieces of literature - Of Mice and Men and Macbeth.

Josh is still working as hard as ever putting in way too much time at work while carrying a full class load at UAlbany. He's excited to grow a mohawk (since I have banned the mullet) for our white trash family vacation in June. I can barely keep him from cutting off all of his jeans so that the pockets stick out the bottom (oh yeh, you know what I'm talking about)! That vacation will yield many pictures to post on here. I promise we won't disappoint come June.

Other than that, life is pretty normal - Bond, Christmas shopping, Twilight, Fringe, Grey's (for me only, Josh makes fun of it every chance he can), and LOTS of driving. Enjoy Thanksgiving if we don't get to talk to you before then!