Ah.....Pre-season Baseball!!

Picture of me watching pre-season baseball in pure bliss.  I love spring training.  I love baseball.  Lots of people just find baseball boring and slow.  For me baseball means so much.  First off, when baseball starts to be on TV it means that spring training has started and that indeed there is hope that the winter will someday end.  It also means the joy of summer where you can get an all beef, foot long hotdog and walk to your seat and enjoy the sun and the boys of summer.  There is just something about that well groomed field and the grass that seems to be the greenest thing on the planet.  So green, in fact, that you feel like your eyes may just turn green from the radiation of it all.  Baseball to me just isn't a sport, it is a frame of mind.  It is a place in my mind where it is always sunny and warm.  A place where shorts, flip-flops and a cap are always appropriate attire.  Baseball to me encompasses all that is summer.  I know I can get through the winter now and that I will be okay!

One of my students has been pretty funny.  A few weeks ago, I was complaining(as I often do) about how long February is and that this is my worst month of the year.  I pretty much blamed my moodiness on the month.  Well, she has brought this up often and has said things like:  "I can't wait until March because then you won't be moody."  Well, at the end of class today she came up to me and said:  "It has finally come, tomorrow you will feel much better.  I can't wait to see how you are on Monday!"  I got a kick out of that.  I guess the way I was talking totally made it sound like magically, on March 1st, I would be a completely different person.  It is like magic just happens at midnight tonight!  I sure hope it does.  Actually, today was awesome and my attitude has been much better the latter part of this week.  I am feeling like I can be a good teacher and still have a life.  Very good feelings!  March is a good month.  My birth month, March Madness, my brother's birthday and baseball.  Lots of things to look forward to.

Tonight a bunch of the teachers from school gathered at one of our computer teacher's houses for a BBQ and a movie.  It was fun, as it always is, to actually interact with everybody outside of our work.  I sure do like the people I work with; I am very lucky to work with awesome people and to like going to work everyday.  IHS is a cool place!

Well, I think that is it for February.  Let us have a great March!