long overdue

Alright, so I apologize for the lack of updates in recent times. Being a fully fledged adult with a full time job is much more exhausting than previously anticipated.

School has started! There's almost too much to say about the whole experience thus far. In short, however, I will say that teaching is as hard as I expected, more fun than anticipated, and much more lively than could be imagined. It's been truly overwhelming how quickly I've grown to really like my students and view them all so optimistically. One student might be a bit grating on the nerves, but I still am able to focus on how intelligent she is. Another might not be so academically inclined, but he has a wonderfully inviting and engaging personality. Granted, it's only been 8 days. I might not speak so positively in a month.

Memorable highlights:
-Being asked on the first day if I was my ex's ex-girlfriend. Word travels fast. In this case, it was the younger sibling of one of my ex-boyfriend's high school buddies. Said interrogator is also a student of mine. Awkward when I then had the realization that I spent my prom night at a student's house.
-Asking a student to give an example of a polynomial and the response I get is "decagon?"... I realized later he was thinking of polygons. Funny to me, but so far no one else has been amused by this story. Must be an inside math joke only math nerds understand.
-My students seeing my tattoo and thinking the morse code is cool and not nerdy. Glad I've got someone's approval for it, even if they are a bunch of 17 year olds.
-Being told by sycophantic students that they like my clothes. Points for me for not buying into the ugly teacher clothing syndrome!
-Three fire drills in as many days.
-Already being involved with the quiz bowl team.
-My students having class averages of approx. 61% on the quiz I gave Friday.
-The shocked look on my students' faces when I interrupted their debate over whether to go on Senior Week or go to France for the summer by saying "Hey, the difference between them is that what you'll do on Senior Week is LEGAL in France"... almost as if they thought I didn't know that students drink? Idiot children haha.
-Being asked out to lunch on the first day. By a student. Bahaha.

So, life is good. Today I went to my brother's soccer game. Exciting match, with most of the excitement provided by an obnoxious rival team fan section. I've never wanted to act immaturely as much as I did today. I was seething at the behavior of these parents. Cheering/claiming the kid is faking when a rival team member is injured, to the point of twitching on the field, and having to be taken off the field? Despicable.

Agenda for tomorrow? Bake, tan, clean. The young 20s future housewife version of Jersey Shore's ubiquitous GTL routine.

Note to self: buy stamps. Note to readers: Send me your address and I'll write you a letter.