so it's been a couple of months. good thing no one reads this thing! the job is going well. the commute is crap, but the job is worth it...although a full moon will make a girl rethink things. man...kids really twist off on and around the full moon. i was skeptical, but i must say it is true. the last two days have been increasingly dramatic...making me lose total track of time and space at one point. it was truly amazing. i don't have any inspiring tales, but i work with some pretty amazing and fun people. we laugh a lot which is really nice when the 6th grade is on my last nerve. they're fun, but sometimes i just want to run screaming down the hall. like this week when we had a lockdown drill WHILE i was teaching a 6th grade health class. sure glad the teacher left me ALONE. it was my first lockdown drill. crazy. but try teaching a class after the drill ends. it's virtually impossible. we survived though. no one died. so all is well in the world. anyway. that's about all. and i must say...free tickets to the fair is pretty darn cool. more money to spend on food that will most likely shave time off my life.