So Christmas has come and gone but I'm not about to bore you with another one of those "yule tide Christmas posts" everybody is doing right about now, whoever reads my blog and knows me knows I wish them the best, those you don't, hey what the hell, Merry Christmas.
A trip to Chicago and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) playing for us, that was the main atraction for this december, that was what I was looking forward to the most in this frigid and to some, lonely month. Isela came to visit me in Warrensburg but we were far from staying in that awfully boring town, Chicago was our final destination and final destination it was, there we passed three of the best days we've had in this one year and seven months we've been together, well, sort of together.
Although the CSO wasn't all that we expected, at least the Branford Marsalis piece, it was a disappointment the same way your disappointed when you get to your hotel room and realize it looks absolutely nothing like what you saw in the brochure, you scoff and criticize but you just don't really care.
School is also over and people constantly ask me what do I have to say about my first semester teaching and what I say is "Thank God it's over!" It's not that I didn't have any fun or it wasn't fulfilling, I just wanted it over, a good winter break is what I needed at this moment. But with the semester over and all my student's grades turned in I'm starting to receive all those nasty emails from them complaining about their grade, how that not satisfied with what they got and if there was anything they could do to raise their score a little, well, all I can say to that is too little too late, I gave them a chance to turn in extra credit and most of the people that are complaining now are exactly those people that did not turn it in, besides, theres not much I can do when a student has 12 absences and the rest are most tardies. He still passed though.
So now I'm home and the change of weather has been felt, from the minus something degrees in Missouri to the balmy 30 somethings (this is in Celsius by the way, not Farhenheit) in Guadalajara, Mexico. I'm kinda starting to feel that little itch in my throat of a cold coming on, who knows, It will be strange how I never got sick back at work and now that I'm home with absolutely nothing to do BOOM, a cold. Well, who really cares about that? I'm just rambling.
Back to Chicago, it snowed on our stay there, and we were this close to not being able to come back, which wouldn't have been a problem since we were having so much fun, if only those two feet of snow had fallen in Chicago and not northern Indiana. *sigh. This snowfall was very important for her, it had been so long since she had seen snow fall so incredibly strong as it did that night, as old as we feel sometimes it's thing like these that bring out some incredible behavior in some of us, you should have seen us try to catch snow with our mouths all dressed for the symphony, and I have to give merits to her, she was wearing high heels and was catching more than I was.
Well, this next week will feel like that night before the last day of school, at least until new years when everything is supposed to change, everything is supposed to get a second chance, what if I don't need one? What If I feel perfectly fine the way I am right now? What I don't want to bother with a second chance right now? We'll see what happens after I start missing her as much as I was a couple weeks ago.
But now that it's Christmas some of us have to go to the obligatory church mass, even if we haven't gone all year we have to go today, which ends up only being a pageant for everybody to show off all the new shit they got for Christmas, it's been so long since I've noticed that church going has turned from being something religious to something more in the like of some strange animal's mating rituals, but don't get me wrong, as much fun as it would be to see people have sex in the church sidewalk it never escalates to more than courting the male or female of the species, each one of them wearing their new pair of shoes, pants or jacket, some people will even be showing off cell phones and brand new cars; did I mention I'll be walking to church and that I cant find my cellphone? Well, anyway, it's about that time, I have to go get dressed to go to church, I have to iron my new shirt.
Cheers and Merry Christmas.
A trip to Chicago and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) playing for us, that was the main atraction for this december, that was what I was looking forward to the most in this frigid and to some, lonely month. Isela came to visit me in Warrensburg but we were far from staying in that awfully boring town, Chicago was our final destination and final destination it was, there we passed three of the best days we've had in this one year and seven months we've been together, well, sort of together.
Although the CSO wasn't all that we expected, at least the Branford Marsalis piece, it was a disappointment the same way your disappointed when you get to your hotel room and realize it looks absolutely nothing like what you saw in the brochure, you scoff and criticize but you just don't really care.
School is also over and people constantly ask me what do I have to say about my first semester teaching and what I say is "Thank God it's over!" It's not that I didn't have any fun or it wasn't fulfilling, I just wanted it over, a good winter break is what I needed at this moment. But with the semester over and all my student's grades turned in I'm starting to receive all those nasty emails from them complaining about their grade, how that not satisfied with what they got and if there was anything they could do to raise their score a little, well, all I can say to that is too little too late, I gave them a chance to turn in extra credit and most of the people that are complaining now are exactly those people that did not turn it in, besides, theres not much I can do when a student has 12 absences and the rest are most tardies. He still passed though.
So now I'm home and the change of weather has been felt, from the minus something degrees in Missouri to the balmy 30 somethings (this is in Celsius by the way, not Farhenheit) in Guadalajara, Mexico. I'm kinda starting to feel that little itch in my throat of a cold coming on, who knows, It will be strange how I never got sick back at work and now that I'm home with absolutely nothing to do BOOM, a cold. Well, who really cares about that? I'm just rambling.
Back to Chicago, it snowed on our stay there, and we were this close to not being able to come back, which wouldn't have been a problem since we were having so much fun, if only those two feet of snow had fallen in Chicago and not northern Indiana. *sigh. This snowfall was very important for her, it had been so long since she had seen snow fall so incredibly strong as it did that night, as old as we feel sometimes it's thing like these that bring out some incredible behavior in some of us, you should have seen us try to catch snow with our mouths all dressed for the symphony, and I have to give merits to her, she was wearing high heels and was catching more than I was.
Well, this next week will feel like that night before the last day of school, at least until new years when everything is supposed to change, everything is supposed to get a second chance, what if I don't need one? What If I feel perfectly fine the way I am right now? What I don't want to bother with a second chance right now? We'll see what happens after I start missing her as much as I was a couple weeks ago.
But now that it's Christmas some of us have to go to the obligatory church mass, even if we haven't gone all year we have to go today, which ends up only being a pageant for everybody to show off all the new shit they got for Christmas, it's been so long since I've noticed that church going has turned from being something religious to something more in the like of some strange animal's mating rituals, but don't get me wrong, as much fun as it would be to see people have sex in the church sidewalk it never escalates to more than courting the male or female of the species, each one of them wearing their new pair of shoes, pants or jacket, some people will even be showing off cell phones and brand new cars; did I mention I'll be walking to church and that I cant find my cellphone? Well, anyway, it's about that time, I have to go get dressed to go to church, I have to iron my new shirt.
Cheers and Merry Christmas.
(Man did I ramble on today.)
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