I have to say from coming back from the gym that I feel like I was on hiatus and I hate you kivs (and love you at the same time) for reminding me what an addiction running is and what a good feeling it give you afterwards because tonight I just wanted to run again like I was last october, but alas, I can't I have to work for it again. So yeah, wish me luck friends, because I am back at it. :)

One of my former students just sent me this and it's really cute:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QxYSyJxfAck

Apparently mice are not the only ones who get stuck in glue traps, shev's do too. At least my shoelaces do. Go figure... Oddly this is the second time a rodent has appeared in my blog...NJ, just saw me writing this and said, "I hope this is because you got stuck in the gluetrap, not because you saw one". Hmmm, maybe that is where the mystery bite came from. :) Worked out again today, it is really funny to watch people while their are taking classes there. It's a nice gym because it empty and so far when I have been there there has been no wait for anything, it's very nice. I have no excuse to go because I paid a hell of alot of money for it so I have to and it also is really just two blocks away.

I forgot to mention that out super fixed our bathroom and now our shower is the best shower, especially with the new showerhead. I think this is the first time in awhile everything has drained, unsloshed, etc. in our bathroom. I am not sure everyone realizes how significant that is.

A line from a movie I love (NJ stop laughing), "Why are you trying so hard to fit in, when you are born to stand out?"

Last night while I was at the gym our apartment pet ordered me dinner while I was at the gym. Just an explaination our pet is actually my bestest B but she is like a pet in the way that she burrows into our couch, eats everything, demands to be watered, and wrecks havoc with the remote control, snarling at us if we dare touch it. Anyways, when I came home, the first thing she said to me was "oh I accidentally took a bite out of your dinner" and yes, I took out my dinner and there was a bite mark in it. Does this surprise us at all? Nope.

So I was walking through CP today to get to work and I have complained about the dogs, well today a really large dog slammed into me and stepped on my foot. Does the owner stop and apologize? Not at all. I couldn't even figure out who the owner was. Are they not supposed to watch their dogs????

So internet was down last night which caused a bit o havoc because I ran around looking for some place that I could download. So went to starbucks, Barnes and Noble, Kinkos, and finally ended up at my cousins where the download took forever. It was all very annoying (Happy Y?)
So I ended up going to bed like 3:30 in the morning only to wake up early on my "late day" because I was assigned another teacher's class. When I got to school one of the secretaries told me "Oh yeah, your coverage was cancelled" and I kinda yelled at her for not calling me before I came to school because I was about an hour early for my class. Once again annoying....

My day was pretty good, we did some great labs, taught an art class.
For lab we were using Protists which are live single-celled organisms which I had to order specifically for today so they would not die. So I told the security guard R to look out for a package for me. He keeps on making fun of me for A. the fire alarm incident and B. He once was checking bags and I came in with a bag of crickets to feed a gecko we had. So I said, no, I ordered a crate of monkeys to keep you company in the lobby. So R said, that is ok, because I have kippot for all of them :) It was cute. Then I went to the office to recount the story to C because its fun and she if not more is as crazy and caffienated as I am and also see humor in otherwise mundane situations. C's replay was that the monkeys where specially packed as to let them breathe but get maximum monkeys in the crate because of course "You want a lot of monkeys for your money" I found that line completely hysterical. Hence the picture.

"Part of the Queue" by Oasis has joined my list of favorite songs. I have been listening to it for a while but now I really like it.
Strangly also Limp Bizkit's "Build a Bridge"

The best is when I play music in lab in school and it's really cute when the kids start singing along to the most random song. It cracks me up that I can discuss bands and music with them. I guess it is a good thing.

So we survived another major holiday on the UWS. I have to say it is not the worst it has been because I got to spend alot of quality time with alot of good friends and laugh along with them. There are several feelings that this weekend did evoke though. One of those thoughts I had which might be a little bit depressing but true is whenever I am in a situation like this weekend where there are hundreds of people around all checking out each other, I always think well what distinguishs me from them that makes me at allm diffrent and possibly more appealing than the hundreds of other people there. How sad is that?
Another thought is even though it was not so bad is that I really don't want to have to do this again this year. I am tired, a little bit nauseated (no I was not trying to poison anyone contrary to popular belief) and really a bit talked out. After two days of small talk with people I only see once in a while or have just met it is hard to verbally string together coherant sentences.
The plus side is there were several interesting people who had very interesting viewpoints and thought and more importantly can make me laugh, so thank you to those who actually cracked me up this time. You know who you are. It is nice to meet people who have not shed their intellectual individualism to blend into the flock. I appreciate those people because I think I am a bit of a black sheep, or more of a technicolor sheep myself and on that note. BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH