Ha! It's next year already.

Well it hasn't been a year since my last posting, but a while anyway.

Finished reading Super Sad True Love Story last week. Rather troubled me. It's sad. Too close to the truth for me. Too close to where it seems we're headed. Too close to what I see in many of my students and many of my fellow teachers. Ah, the world keeps spinning.

Actually, I've read many good books in the past couple months. Got me one of them e-readers and download books from the public library (there are so many, what do you call them?...crap...love stories...you know...a beautiful woman is saved by a beautiful man and they fall in love crap...anyway, it takes a bit of time to weed through all those to find something good to read using the public library...seems rather sad they have so many of that genre for checkout...guess most people just want to be loved...or whatever). E-readers and very handy--easy to tote about, easy to read. No passion though. No intimacy. Cold.

Noticed I've been rather cranky lately. Beats me. Maybe it's hormones. Remind me to tell you about my hormones some time. Well, maybe that should be in the singular. Probably.

Had a student complain about my cussing in class the first day of summer session. I get one that complains at least once a year. Not certain why. Guess I oughta say "darn" instead of "damn" or maybe even "dang it." "Dang it!" a good one. Haven't used that in years. Tender ears. Maybe I'll stop cussing in class when they stop preaching in their essays. That's a good trade off I should think. I'll limit my vocabulary when they expand their minds. Ha! That's brilliant!

In just over a month I turn a year older. Think I got them ol' birthday blues. Maybe that's why I'm cranky. Maybe it isn't the hormone. It isn't that I'm dreading turning a year older, but more of just how soft I've let myself become. Think I may be a bit more cynical, too. Softness will do such to a person. Got to get unsoft to ease up the crankiness and stop being so dang cynical.

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