Monday September 24

And we start another week, another chance, another beginning.  I feel that school is like that...every day is a new beginning, another chance to get it right (or more right), another chance to make a breakthrough with a tough kid, another opportunity to deepen a relationship.  It's going to take some discipline to not lock myself in my office with all the paperwork I have to do but stay visible and present in classrooms, the playground and hallways.  I traditionally have done paperwork at home after school or on weekends, but I've been pretty well occupied during those hours this year...

So the house looks great, and I feel ready to have some potential buyers come through.  I've only given fleeting thought to what happens if we find a buyer right away who needs to move in right away?  Guess I'd have to move.  That would be fun.

I took a Bikram yoga class yesterday afternoon...room heated to 106 degrees and some very strenuous postures...and some gorgeous, fit people.  I remembered taking Bikram years ago and feeling my body get stronger over the weeks.  It may end up being quite convenient to stop in Hartford on my way home from work, so I may try to go a couple more times this week.  It's way more healthy than eating wheat thins from the box and watching So You Think You Can Dance with the dog.  (not dance with the dog...watch with the dog...ach, it's hard to write at the ass crack o' dawn)

I miss my honey.  Likewise, I'm sure.

We got our AAA membership in the mail the other day.  We joined so we could have roadside assistance during our drive from CT to CO in December.  They included a map of the US...Colorado is really smack in the middle of the country, surrounded by (let's see if I can do this) Utah, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Wyoming and New Mexico.  I wonder if I'll miss the ocean a lot?  Just thinking about being so landlocked makes me antsy sometimes.  But I've heard that the mountains are Coloradans' oceans...if that makes sense.  Maybe you get to the mountains when you need to get to the edge.  Because as you know, sometimes I just have to get to the edge, stand there and breathe.