The freshmen are mine! MWAAHAHAHAHA! Okay, so I'm not overly possessive about the three freshmen English classes I'm teaching, but it's nice to finally be (sort of) calling the shots when it comes to what I teach, how I teach it, and when I teach it. I have a lot of fun working with those kids, and if things continue to progress this way, I'm going to love working with the sophomores next week. I think that the relationships I'm building with these students is the best aspect of teaching that there is--they come in and they say hello to me, we talk about football, we talk about movies--and they don't hate me. They don't think I'm some sort of loser from another planet (although Iowa and Nebraska seem about as far away as Mars to some of them). Anyway, things are going well, even though I'm not particularly enjoying the foot of snow that 's growing slushy in the already-dirty streets. But it's better than ice or blizzards. I'm tempted to move to a southern and coastal state for my job next year. Well, my time's up. I gotta run. The joys of using the library's computers.