2007-09-21 - 10:17 a.m.
My friend is all gone now. Maybe I will make another one.

I definitely just told my coffee that it's my best friend.

I don't know how my best friend feels about me drinking it, but best friends make sacrifices for each other.

If I was a smoker, I would be outside, leaning against the house and taking long, desperate drags of carcinogens into my system.

Fortunately, I'm a caffeine addict, not nicotine. I was caffeine free for a few weeks there and then I decided I was a bleeding idiot and got that IV back into my needy little veins.

I'm stressed as hell and strangely, just as happy as I am stressed. I almost don't want to admit to it, I'm afraid it will be yanked from under me, but there it is.

Being in a classroom everyday is the most amazing thing ever. I have amazing kids and I'm being spoiled rotten. And I abso-fucking-lutely love it.

Next week and the week after are hell as far as my classes and practicum go, but it's all good. I saw the mocumentary "Chalk" last night. It was hilarious. I've never felt so simultaneously inspired and depressed before. Being a teacher is going to be fantastic, even if I am one of the 50% who will quit in their first five years.

I get to be the bad guy tonight and attempt to keep 50+ drunks in line on an hour bus ride tonight. Yay drunk and idiotic frat boys and sorority girls!

Edit: 10:50AM

Lacrosse hottie just asked me out! Score.