Written Sunday October 28, 2007

Writing this from my futon while watching game four of the World Series. Man, I really am enjoying having T.V. a little too much these days. I think it is rotting my brain. Too bad a symptom of addiction is that I can’t stop watching.

Saw “Dan in Real Life” last night. Great movie. You should see it. It made me laugh a lot. I haven’t been to a movie in a long time. I need to go more often.

Too bad I can’t get free internet from home anymore. It is interesting to me how just moving upstairs in the same house messed with my reception. Touchy wireless!

My house is a mess, but I really just didn’t have the energy to clean it this weekend. I just didn’t care. Maybe later this week I will care.

Tomorrow, grades are due. Luckily, mine are pretty much done. I just have to make a few changes because of the attendance policy. Time truly is flying. It is almost November already, crazy!

It is nice to know that my family is starting to read my blog regularly. I think they should start commenting more. They are really nice people. I think all of you other people should meet them someday. I am trying to convince my mother that she should come visit this year. I am also trying to convince her to get a passport and to come to London with me this next summer. So, mom if you are reading this, you just need to do it. Actually, if you can only take on trip this year, let’s go to England.

The Boston Red Sox just won the World Series. That is exciting. Actually, it wasn’t that exciting because they swept the series. The Rockies didn’t even seem like a good ball team. That is crazy. I guess the Curse of the Bambino is officially broken. It is pretty cool that the Sox have won two series in the last five years. It makes me want to watch the movie “Fever Pitch.” Maybe I will pull it out sometime this winter when I am missing baseball season. I don’t think I am excited for the winter to be here. The lack of light lately has been bugging me too. It is so hard to wake up in the morning when it is still dark outside. I am not looking forward to daylight savings either. It is not going to be fun to come home from work at dark most days. That won’t be fun. I better get a full spectrum light so I can be able to fight the darkness of the winter blues.

I am very tired. I better get myself to bed. It is Red Ribbon Week this week at school. Our student counsel took over the planning which has made me very happy because I am usually in charge of it. There will be lots of fun activities this year so that is a good thing. There might just even be a dance too. Weird. Hopefully the students will pull through with it and actually make it happen. It is fun to see them actually get stuff done. I like that we have tried this year to let them have some control in the school. Makes our jobs lots easier.

Well, I hope you all survived Monday. I hope I will too!

Pumpkin pic and me before date!

Be sure to check out the video of my pumpkin below...and my post for the day too! This is just an add on picture post! :) Carry on!

World's Greatest Pumpkin Carver!

Don't be jealous. I am an amzing video maker, and a fabulous pumpkin carver. Probably not the world's greatest, but I thought it was a good title anyway.

The weekend is going a little to fast for my liking right now. I cannot believe that it is already five o'clock saturday evening. That just isn't fair. Why is it that time flies on off days, but it goes pretty slowly when you are working?

It was the full moon this past week so the students were quite weird. I had a pretty good argument with a student on Thursday. In fact, I threw him out five minutes into class. I went up to him yesterday and asked if we were alright. He said: "Yeah, why?" See that is one thing that I love about my students. They have an amazing ability to forget about arguments really quickly. I guess I just wasn't patient enough with him and over-reacted. I apoligized for that. I think that is an important part of my job. When I actually don't handle a situation like I should, I think it is good for the students to see how I deal with my own mess-ups. It helps them see some positive communication skills.

I went bowling today. It was fun. I bowled pretty horibly but that isn't what it is all about. I also got free lunch and that is always good. I like to go on dates. Even if nothing comes of them, it is nice to get out and have some fun with people besides my usual crowd! We will see if anything comes of it.

I don't have much else to say, in fact, I really should be back at the school entering grades. Too bad I can't access this from school. Apparently, all blogs are evil and inappropiate. Oh well. Well, I am going to head back to the school. Good way to spend a saturday afternoon, huh?

I also bought some great pants today. I will post a picture of them too before I leave. I like new hot pants. Too bad I had to buy these beause I have no fat pants to fit into right now. Dang weight issues!

Tired, but it is almost Friday. Thanks Heavens.

I am tired today. My 8th hour wore me out. Within five minutes I kicked a kid out. I just couldn't handle the disrespect today. I also screamed: "Shut Up!" really loud at one point. They are so very disruptive. Dang kids. I even was annoyed by T-Roy today. I think the full moon has gotten us all crabby or something.

I do not have much else to say. I must say that I told you all about the date I went on instead of going to a meeting. Well, I also forgot that I had emailed one of the women in charge and told her I was too busy to make the meeting and forgot that at the bottom of all my emails is my blog address. Sometimes, I am not the sharpest tool in the shed. So, if I have offended anybody by my Hell comments and skipping of meetings, I apologize.

The date was mediocre. The guy I had invited actually was more interested in the other woman and the other guy that was along I had tried to date last year, but then realized he was not for me. We were both two different kinds of weird. But it was a good practice I guess.

Results from social experiments total only one success so far. I took a break today because of my poor number of responses. It is funny to me how guys can almost make me sad via the internet as much as they do offline!

I took some great shots of my pumpkin tonight. They WILL be up this weekend. Get excited, I even bought a cool changing color light to go in it. Very cool.

Well, I must go get my TV fix for tonight. House followed by The Office. I love my life!

Walk Among Pumpkins. You will Enjoy it!

Well, I went to my tenth consecutive Pumpkin Walk up in North Logan this past weekend. It was spectacular, as always. It was really warm though which was very different for the Pumpkin Walk and Logan in general. It is okay though because the next morning it was very cold and rainy. That was more like the Logan I know. It was fun to go up with friends and then eat some fantastic pizza and then stay in a mediocre hotel. Very good times. It was also nice of my wonderful friends to humor me and allow me to walk around the campus going down memory lane. Thanks ladies, especially for braving the weather!

This week is good so far. I am doing social experiments which is always a good way to not be bored. This time is has to do with online dating. Okay, so often my social experiments have to do with online dating, but this one is a good one. I have decided that basically no means is helping me get dates. Not my church ward, not the grocery store, not the internet. So, I decided to change some variables. I decided that I will write at least one young available close proximity male each day. So far, I am on day two. I have already gotten one response. We will see if this social experiment will yield any dates. Today, I also changed another variable. I decided that sometimes it is okay to ask men out. I did so tonight and I have a date for tomorrow night. Of course, I am going to hell for it because I just remembered(about an hour after scheduling the date) that I am supposed to be at a training meeting for church. At this point in my life and still being single, I decided that the date must go on. This is important too. But I am still probably going to hell for it.

I just found the book I wish I had written. It is a book about sports specifically aimed at educating women about sports. Hello, this is probably part of my life's calling. I am very mad at the author for stealing my idea before I even had it. Shame on her. Anyway, I think I am going to read it to get my ideas for the better book that I will write in the future! I also have three other sports books next to me that are waiting to be checked out from the library. I think I am a sports nut or something. Hmmm.

Note on eighth hour. Last week, during class, one of the students said: "Alice, you totally should blog about this!" So very funny. Also, a note about T-Roy. Yesterday I wrote a note to him on the whiteboard under where I give the students their writing prompts. It said something along the lines of: Yes, T-Roy, you always should write a full paragraph. The sad part was that T-Roy was absent yesterday. Good thing about today though was that T-Roy was there and I wrote this: "Yes, T-Roy, you didn't learn about the 5 areas yesterday, you were not here. So, write about your closest friend instead." It was so very funny when Troy said "Hey, I wasn't here yesterday" and I was able to point him to the board to read his own personal message. Stellar moment!

Well, sorry it has been a long dry spell for my blog. I promise to do better. Enjoy the pictures from the Pumpkin Walk. I love this time of year and that event is one of my favorite things to do during the Fall. Also, enjoy the picture of last year's pumpkin carving escapades. I will have a picture next time of this year's creation. It is a good one!

Cheers,
A