Into the groove

I've wanted to post for a couple of days now, but I've been busy with school stuff. Between yesterday and today, I sat through 9hrs of student presentations. They don't pay me enough.

I've been in a better mood though. I had a nice weekend at home with the parents. We decorated for the holidays, and my Grandfather and his wife stopped by for a night on their way to Florida. They're doing the whole "snow bird" thing from NY. It was really nice to spend some time with the fam without having anything from school hanging over my head. It was also nice to enjoy a longer drive in my car, which I love by the way.

On Friday night I emailed my new crush because I had a work-related question to ask. When he wrote back he told me to "feel free to stop by" his office on Monday while he was returning papers. Hmm. That definitely piqued my interest, because I really don't know him that well. I had probably only spoken to him for a total of five minutes since I met him.

Yesterday when my first class finished their presentations, I went downstairs to his office to see if he was still hanging around.

He was there.

He was lounging in a T-shirt and jeans. He looked cute in a Saturday-afternoon kind of way. When I walked in, I realized that one of his office-mates was there. That deflated me a bit. It became a strict work-type conversation about teaching and end-of-semester drama. It was still nice to chat with him though. He seems funny. It's too bad though that I've just now had a decent conversation with him, since we're coming up on break.

New crushes are always fun though.

What's funny is that over the weekend I looked myself up on ratemyprofessor.com, but I wasn't on there. So then I started looking up colleagues, and I found posts for him. Most of the students were commenting on how "dreamy" he is. One of them actually said, "He had me at comma splice." Haha.

I'll spend the next few days grading papers, but after that I'm free of school-related obligations. I do have to revise my syllabus for next semester, however.

In other news, I booked a flight to Boston for after New Years. I'm going up Jan 4-8, and I'm staying with CK. E is going to be visiting from Austin that weekend too (we tried to sync our trips up) I'm so excited! It's going to be great to see some of my ladies. I'll also have to make a trip back to FP to see coffee guy. He IMs me sometimes now, but I prefer the over-the-counter flirtation.

Yes, things are looking up.

In the next few days I have to post about Enigma/Inquisitor and Sax.

So much to report about the mens!