A Sunny 68 degrees?

Okay, this is just silly...here i sit at Panera (free internet) on New Years Eve, and i am wearing shorts and a t-shirt, and i am comfortable, not cold, not hot, comfortable...this just isnt right, not the way God intended it, i am pretty sure...I know I know...."but you live in Texas"...thats still no excuse, this is just silly, yesturday it was almost 80....thats just not natural, last time i checked it was december, and everything in me says that i should be looking at a couple feet of snow, or at least very low numbers on the thermometer, eh, maybe i'll go for a bike ride.

Growing Up is hard to do

I think I have hit that point in my life where you realize that you are an adult, and your friends look older, and you look at what you do and its suddenly responsible...crazy. This has happened to me in the past couple weeks...This past week especially as i see old friends and aquaintances here in NY and I look at them and they are different somehow...No, they dont really act too much different, we still have the same relationships, but they look different, I'm not talking freakishly different like they got botox in their lips and put on or lost a ton of weight, but the different like, wait a second, we are adults, we are the twenty-somethings that we used to look at as teenagers and younger and think, they are the coolest adults ever!!! Have we become the cool adults, are we the ones that everyone wants to be like, are we the brat pack ala st. elmo's fire, working our jobs trying to fit in time for each other and suddenly realizing we are no longer in college? I think so. We have become those crazy twenty-somethings of the 80's that we all grew up watching in movies. We are buying the sweet vehicles cause we can, we are living in sweet apartments cause we can, we have all these new fun toys cause we can, we still listen to the popular top 40's music cause we dont think its just noise, we are shocked when people bring up retirement plans cause we arent that old, health benefits are just cool to have cause there ours not our parents, we visit friends that live far away and speak often cause we dont have other huge responsibilities in life, we are pre-college tuition savings worrying days, and we are beyond the going to the bar every thursday cause friday classes dont matter stage, we are the twenty-somethings, we are married to our jobs, or possibly not happy with what we choose and are still looking for what will make us happy, or permenantly misserable, our friends are still getting married, but some of them are starting to have children...we are becoming the grown-ups, the one thing we promised ourselves we wouldnt become, but its inevitable. I just dont understand how two days ago someone didnt look as old as they do today...why does it hit you like a brick wall?...and do we dare tell each other this?

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I was awakened yet again by some loud banging from my upstairs neighbors on saturday, and i thought to myself "they better be moving out or I am going to be pissed"...and much to my surprise, as I walked out of my apt. to go to lunch there was a moving truck filled and parked at the sidewalk, filled, and another car there with its trunk open...thats right, no more loud sexual escapades by my neighbors, and finally i can get a good nights rest on the weekends...WOHOOOO!!!

End of the Semester...Boy am i Tired

It is the end of the semester here in H-town, and it couldn't be better timing. The attitude epidemic seems to be sweeping the building faster every second, students are stressed because of finals, faculty are stressed because of grading, and support staff is stressed because everyone wants them to do something different, and to get it done NOW. But all in all i have still found time to notice a few oddities running around.

1. Anti-dust Chalk - kind of like communism, looks good on paper, but doesnt really exist.

2. New and Improved - is it new, or is it an improvement on the old one?

3. Mr. F, can i ask you a question? - Well guess i dont have much of a choice, you already did.

4. Money - Apparently the great wizard keeps that behind the curtain too...and the money that is around seems to disappear like a fart in the wind.

5. Vacation - Its a mirage...it looks very nice and inviting, but we all push stuff off till vacation, we will certainly have more time for it then right?

6. Extra-Credit - Why give a kid more work to do so they can bring their grade up, the reason its low is cause they didnt do their work...HELLO!!!!!

Thats it for now, back to the joy of grading, actually i cant complain, but we may revisit the commonalities of Proctor and Proctology later this week during finals...i think its time for a "vacation"