Low/highlights (5.9.07)

• Waking up
  
• Creeping up the final (not-even-that-steep-)hill of my commute (in granny gear) this morning when one of my students passes me on his single speed
• A personal phone call from Mr. Ride the Ducks himself . . . telling me I was off to a good start and even had the potential to be a candidate for Rookie of the Year. I have to check my copy of the 2 page handout we got at the staff meeting last Thursday, but I think that might actually be an award category in the new supercomplex bonus system they set up to encourage captains to actually show up to work on time. More on that later.
  
• Realizing that with each passing day I am coming closer and closer to the limit of my remedial Spanish comfort zone and soon will have to pretend that I remember the preterite tense, not to mention the subjunctive . . .
  
• Getting my first package in the mail at my new house. It contained a bag of chocolate chips, a couple spatulas, a pair of fuzzy dice (actually requested, although it is something my mom would throw in a package randomly) and a package-within-a-package of mix CDs (from Karen sent via Massachusetts--thank god for the constancy of the parental PO Box)
• Diet Coke with Lime
• Seattle weather. 70 and sunny. Seriously.
  
• Getting a text message this afternoon from my housemate saying the internet had been set up

So yes, after 3 months of withdrawal, I am back with regular internet access. And not only that, but I can access it from anywhere (in my 10' x 20' room)-- no need to crouch at the Window of Knowledge. Of course, now that I am working 60 hours a week (12 hours of teaching tomorrow and a weekend chock full o' duck tours), I can't promise that I will post as much as I should. But it's got to be better than the last few weeks.