it's always hard coming back

a week from the end of january and i'm just now doing my first post of the new year. sad sad sad. i've thought many times of coming back and posting but often times found myself unsure of what to actually write about, what to say. most things seemed unimportant, unnecessary. but then who cares? i mean, anyone who has read my blog can tell that this isn't about making important pronouncements about life and such. it's just the random thoughts that meander through my head. sometimes they're interesting. sometimes they're not.

feels like january has slipped away. been busy with academic team and film club and trying to get caught up on all the grading i didn't do over christmas break, only i keep giving my students assignments and they keep turning them in and i don't see that stopping any time soon. so there's most of what's kept me away - the busyness of life.

then there's the fear that students might be reading. i found something hilarious and wanted to post it, but then thought, "what if a student reads it? what then?" which is not helpful at all for the purpose of this blog. something i wish i had thought about before agreeing to the interview. oh well. maybe enough time has gone by and the students have forgotten and i can post what i found and anything else that comes to mind. doesn't help, though, that right before christmas break we got a letter from our union talking about why we shouldn't do facebook and myspace. no danger of me doing those, but i wonder if the same liability exists for a blog. so many horror stories of employers using blog postings against employees. add to that the frustration a friend of mine has been having because of something i wrote on my blog and, well, i've been a bit blogshy.

fun with smart people update: after a slow start, mason has moved into either 2nd or 3rd place, depending on how middletown did in their match today. we've swept three straight matches (fairfield, hamilton and lakota west) and are hitting our stride. which has absolutely nothing to do with me as a coach. i think they're just getting into the groove of the competition. last week they all dressed in sombreros for the match. hilarious. good thing we didn't try that today because our opponent was a little touchy. we are overloaded with seniors, so we've been letting them play during the JV rounds, which is technically against the rules but the other teams we've played had no problem with it. but today a parent called us on it, so we had to forfeit the alphabet round. we still beat them, but it showed that though we tend to be laid back about the matches, not every team is like us. which is too bad, because i'm pretty sure we're having more fun.

we're doing compline early tonight, so i need to go. i think angela might be going to see the new U2-3D at the imax tonight. i'm afraid if she asks if i want to go, i might have to say yes, though it will make for a late night. we'll see what happens...
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