Telephones makes strangers out of lovers, whiskey makes the strangers all look good

currently listening to:
Old 97's, Too Far to Care
I am Sam soundtrack
a random mix of my sister's music

currently reading:
our crisis management plan
my faculty handbook
boring handouts

movies I would recommend:
City of God
V for Vendetta
Why We Fight (a documentary)

We start pre-school inservice tomorrow at 8:30 am, so I guess it's my first official day back on the job, although I've been in my classroom for the past week or so already. I'm starting to get excited to see the students again, and I'm feeling pretty positive about the whole music-teacher bit. I even think our junior high volleyball season is going to be fun. I forgot how much fun it is to work with most of these people. Notice the word "most."

My trip to Nebraska was wonderful--pretty relaxing, and I got to see a bunch of people from high school. Maybe I'll post some pics eventually. I got to go to the newly revamped botanical/sunken gardens, lots of restaurants, a couple movies. I also saw my sister's band practice--they're pretty good! They don't have a name yet, or I would recommend them. No CD either, although I had better get one as soon as they make one.

I got a new computer this last week--I am now a Mac owner. I love it. And I love that I got a decent discount because I'm a teacher. And because it's back-to-school time, they threw in an ipod for free. Lots of love going around. Although it's been a little stressful trying to transfer all my files. My other computer is pretty slow right now because there's only a few megabytes left on the harddrive. Oh well.

My friend once called blogging "journaling for exhibitionists." I've never really thought of myself as an exhibitionist, but I think there's some truth to that. I sort of write this for my own personal record, but I also like the idea of my words being "out there" and accessible to pretty much whoever. Anyway.