i interrupt your work day to say that i’m sorry

i’m sorry for interrupting and wasting your work time!
of course, you’re the one who came here to read it so i suppose you’re partially to blame.

last night, my parents buzzed by chris’ place to bring me a “sorry-your-day’s-so-sucky” coffee and hugs. since they were still there as he got home, chris invited them to stay for dinner. in the course of dinner conversation, after some explanation was given or something smart happened…i don’t know…maybe she was asking if he knew how to hack something again…i may not have been paying attention…but in the course of it all, my mom exclaimed that she liked that i dated geniuses. =)

though the first one broke the mold, most of the others who have caught my interest tend towards the brainy end. i’m sure it’s because they’re attracted to my own smarts, of course, of course…but it is what it is.

along with the territory, i’ve learned, seen, and heard about lots that i may not normally be exposed to.
like ieee’s spectrum magazine. when you date an engineer a tv repairman, you come to enjoy the articles in such a periodical since it’s the only one within reach from the potty.

as it was, yesterday, i found myself intrigued by the cover article’s description (“E-mail, tweets, and Facebook updates are destroying our productivity and our leisure”), and i soon found myself sucked in.

the article infoglut didn’t really mention twitter or facebook much. it focused more on extraneous emails that clog inboxes and steal time from “information workers” (engineer, dr, lawyer, etc), but it was interesting nonetheless.
and it made me wonder/think about several things:

new pet

hi friends.  happy wednesday.

i have a story for you but first i’ll give you some background.

one of the many things that i like about me and chris is that we’re both usually ready for fun. and most of the time, we’re perfectly happy to create it for ourselves.

sometimes, it’s little things like seeing who can find a penny first.

once it was me unexpectedly accepting his challenge to race around the courtyard of the museum in dallas.

which, by the way, was too. much. fun.
even a stranger who spectated couldn’t help but tell us when he came across us inside.

i also liked playing in the hanging spaghetti art thingy at the blanton. 

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probably pretty dirty but undoubtedly entertaining.

however, sometimes we don’t have to create fun because the fun comes to us.
and so we begin the story of last saturday night.

happy friday!!

i don’t know why but i’m feeling particularly chipper this morning and i wanted to just put it out there. =)

it’s not like it was a superb week.  in fact, there have been plenty of times this week that the pressure of various things has felt unbearable.

however, this morning, as i drove to my mama’s house for a yummy breakfast, all of that was gone and i felt completely content.

i guess when i look at it all…pressures aside…some pretty big things have happened in the last week as well.

to every thing-turn, turn, turn…

so…two days ago, i had this whole stinkin’ post ready to go and i clicked publish when the screen told me i FAILED and the entire thing was erased!   and you know the second draft is never the same as the first one.  plus, i have more pressing things that i should be doing instead of this.  ugh…boo hoo…whine.

but, i thought it worth putting there the first time so (many hours two days later…after said pressing items) i go for round two:

seasons change and i’m in the midst of a biggie.

for the first time in 24 years, the school year has begun and i’m not a part of it.
this.   is.   weird…

everyone kept saying “don’t worry!! schools do most of their hiring right before the year starts.  with 7 years experience, you’ll get a job!” and i kinda believed them.  i mean, i didn’t think it was a definite but i was still hopeful.  plus, God wanted me to be teaching, right?!  i love it and i’m good at it.  why wouldn’t he want me teaching?

well…maybe because there’s something better for me?!
last thursday, i got a text from a friend who was notified by another friend that there’s a

ps

i’m starting to like (a lot, a lot) golf.

to blog or not to blog…

hey guys

how are you?!

obviously, i’ve been MIA here at her sweet nothings.  posts have been sporadic, to say the least.  the past two months–during which i’ve not even been working–i’ve had fewer posts than i did the crazy last month of school (though my frequency had already begun to decrease).
for a while, i had no desire to post or really be online that much.  now, i think about blog stuff and have ideas for things to write or share about but it’s on the bottom of my list of priorities and i’m not really all that upset that i haven’t been able to get to it.

i’ve got a few things to share today but what actually brought me here is an article in today’s paper.
*useless background info: i’ve been delivering resumes to different schools with my trusty mama by my side.  during these excursions, she intuitively makes everything ok by buying me starbucks.  everytime i go to starbucks these days, i look for a discarded statesmen for the crossword puzzle.  i scored a free paper today which is how i found the article.