Russian Spy?

my newly updated profile is courtesy of my sister Rebekah. can't take credit for things i didn't write. her blog and myspace is entirely more interesting than mine. although, i think i take precedence in the truth/factual dept. but then, it's the internet. isn't that part of the charm of it? you can say whatever you want. uh oh. i'm getting into some social commentary here that i don't have the energy to fully engage in right now.

Hoosierville

My family is celebrating Thanksgiving this weekend. We're a month early, I know. We're not going to be able to get together for the actual day though. I caught a ride home with my dad and sister this afternoon. We took a fun little detour through Gary, IN. It really didn't seem all that scary or run down. Did you know that Goodwill has an outlet store? It's in Gary. Everything is under $5 except for the wedding dresses....bizarre. Erika and I were laughing over that. The wedding dresses were $200. I don't know who would pay that much for them new much less used from Goodwill. Of course, one of them still had the original price tag on it, $800. From $800 to $200 is quite the mark down. But imagine the type of dress that would end up in a Goodwill outlet store (think 1992 with mass amounts of dangling beads), certainly not worth $200. Out of curiousity we asked the cashier if that was really the price on the dresses just because it seemed so high. It definitely was, but she informed us that if we came back on the weekend the dresses are 50% off. In fact, everything in the store was 50% off on the weekends. A weekly clearance sale at the outlet thrift store? Somewhere along the line shouldn't that equate to being pretty much free?

Anyway, there's a 9:30 showing of "Back to the Future" starting in the family room so I'm going to stop rambling about Goodwill.

Life with Internet Access

Ah, so keeping up with a blog is so much easier when it doesn't take a 30 minute bus trip to get to a computer with internet access.

Teaching is going well. Things are snowballing quickly as I try not to drown in paperwork. Between putting together attendance lists, phone lists, lesson plans, grading, and curriculum, I feel like my bedroom has turned into a miniature paper mill. Sheesh.

Random Humboldt Park news of this week. Walking down the street this weekend I ran into a classmate of mine from college. She happens to live 3 houses down the street from me. It's a small world.

I was almost run over by three guys running down the street this afternoon while waiting for the bus. One had blood spatters all over his shirt, the other had it all over his face (presumably coming from his nose) and the third was just running with no visible blood. I was almost run into because I wasn't paying attention to where I was going. I was too busy trying not to stare at the two girls kissing each other on the corner. I was definitely feeling the fact that I live in a city.

On a more pleasant note, also while waiting for the bus, a friend of mine from church pulled up at the stop light. She happened to be going to the same place I was. It was a bus rider's dream come true. Rather than stand there and wait for the bus you run up to a car, open the door and hop in. It seems that every bus rider I've ever talked to has wished they could do that at some point in time. Today I experienced it. Let me tell you, it's great. Sadly, it was probably a once in a lifetime event. Unless...I start running up to random cars and jumping in. Yeah, I don't plan on starting that. Especially not after the other events that transpired today.

It's late. I'm going to sleep. The blog has been updated. G'night.