i'm back

in an effort to continue to learn something new every day, i have made it my goal this school year to figure out how to incorporate more technology into my life. as my first act, i am resurrecting my blogging.

i decided that for now, though i imagine i will complain a lot on this blog, my theme will be gratitude. one thing i am grateful for each blog, even if the whole blog is a complaint. while waiting for harry potter to begin tonight, my friend asked me, if i could only pick one lesson my students learn each year, what would it be? and i said gratitude. i wish that my students would learn to be thankful for what they have. and i wish that i would learn that as well. it's an experiment to see how it changes my perspective.

today i am thankful for being able to finish my four mile run. i bought new capri running shorts that hug my ghettolicious booty. i can't wear anything to loose, because that causes my thighs to rub together, resulting in chaffing for which there is no remedy. i got whistled at three times. i tried to convince myself that i might die after mile 1.5. i felt great for mile 2, and then jogged at the pace a duck waddles for mile 4. but what matters is that i finished. when i called my mom she asked why i had only run four miles, because i should be getting up there in mileage by now. she makes a solid point. i kept thinking that it would get easier. and maybe in the slightest way it has, but i still feel like stopping during that first mile, no matter what.

on another note, i imagine another theme to be education. as i figure out how to insert photos, etc, i'm sure that this will serve as a documentary of my year, both as teacher and student. to that end, my professor wants me to write a paper about global warming. i am tempted to instead send him the back catalog of emails i have received from my father since al gore invented the internet. or, speaking of al gore, to insert clips from an inconvenient truth, a movie which i still haven't seen, due to the emails i just mentioned. either way, i think i should get a free pass on this assignment. alas, i do not, and so i must go to sleep.