This is the sound of settling

I am so negligent on this blog as of late, but I will not make excuses. I will just get to posting.

So, as the title would indicate, things are starting to settle down a bit. I'm in the midst of my first day of teaching. One section down, two to go. The first one went relatively well. I seemed to win a few of the students over with my sarcasm. It's hard to take yourself too seriously when you're reading dry policy from a syllabus. And I'm always battling the knowledge that most of my students will be less-than-thrilled about being in a writing class. I find it's best to try to make them like me before they check out of the course entirely. We'll see.

I almost forgot about a "duh" moment I had before class started. I was standing out in the hall with what seemed like most of my students. One of the girls was staring at me...perhaps trying to figure out if I was the professor or not and why I looked so young. The woman who teaches before me came out and shut the door behind her. As I suspected, it was locked...and my keys were upstairs. I had to rush up there to go grab them. I can't do anything smoothly people. Nothing.

On a silly note, one of the sections I'm teaching is 69. Oh yes, the students are going to love that one. The other laura suggested that I just make jokes about it from the outset. I thought about saying, "This is section 69, though that doesn't imply anything about the content." Ha. I worry that I'll be turned in for sexual harassment on the first day though.

Since it was a frenzied dash to finish my syllabi (I put it off like only I know how to), I haven't gotten as settled as I'd like to be in the apartment. The whole place needs to be cleaned. Correction, scrubbed. It's kind of gross. I also have a lot of things to unpack or store away out of sight as well. I haven't wanted to be in the apartment because it's not pretty yet. I'm definitely someone who needs to be in a comfortable space. Taurus and all that (if you believe such things).

I haven't been out much or connected with many people since I've been distracted by my work and other things, but tonight I'm meeting up with an old friend for dinner. A few weeks ago I made it to a gay & lesbian film festival in Durham with Meka and our friend, Shamrock. We saw an interesting French film and a few lesbian shorts. I was entertained but plagued by an insane migraine. When I lived in Raleigh before I didn't get out much in Durham or Chapel Hill; I certainly need to do more of that.

Last night I drove to my parent's house for my brother's birthday dinner. It's reasons like that I love living in NC again. It's been a long time since I've been able to hop in the car and do things like that. The gas it takes and the time isn't as great, but luckily the place with the cheapest gas in NC is somewhere in between. $2.56 baby.

Time to shift gears. Last week things got really messy and complicated with Sax (again). The short version is that we are no longer going to try to stay in touch. The longer version (which I won't tell here) involves MySpace, emails from girlfriends, and insanity. That was fun. It's for the best though, I think. Maybe eventually we'll be "friends" again, but I guess that time is not now. It was a fun summer though.

There's a guy over at the college where our summer program was held that had told me to stop by to see him. The faculty affectionately (and secretly) referred to him as black beauty. He really is beautiful. I've been debating whether or not I want to drop in on him. I have an errand to run over there that I could use as my excuse...but I still wish we had exchanged numbers so I could avoid having to come up with an excuse.

I'm done rambling for now. Another update soon.