well,...

my holiday is almost done. school starts on friday. then i have monday off. lets start school, and then give em a day off. its been a great holiday. a lot of stuff went on, and is going on.

i just got handed another class; which i've never taught. i spoke with a friend/colleague of mine who taught the same class with the same book, and he assured me that there would be no problem. so that calmed my heart rate.

many new things i'm undertaking this new year. i believe that i'm doing it in the new year is just a coincidence. i'm not a new year resolution kind of person. in fact i hate new year's resolutions. this will all unfold as the year goes on.

as i sit right now my 'office' it is a wreck. books all over the floor. in front of the computer. notes on class. notes about personal ideas. two bags with school stuff in em. one bag getting ready for ebay. wondering why i want to include berkeley's idealism in my lecture. knowing that i have to complete aristotle's politics soon. needing to get my lecture going for my new class.

my holiday has been relaxing. busy. fun. there is one thing that i'm going to miss though. during this holiday i haven't been doing a lot of driving. no need. so a lot of the running around i was doing, i was doing on my fixie. put on my hypnotic design knickers; which are a great riding pant for causal hanging out riding. going to the post office. ups store. game store. bank. parents. grocery store. i felt like a true single speed rider when i went to the grocery store. i needed to pick up some things, and one product was beer. i had my backpack. figuring how much i could buy, with my other stuff. so i picked up two four packs of guinness, and a sixer of bass. man was that heavy riding home. i almost needed to pull one out for the ride home. good thing i've got a surly tuggnut chain tensioner on the fixie. so if need be i could open a bottle. that might be why they made them that way. one product. two purposes. tension chain. open beer. so i'm going to miss riding the fixie from place to place.

life is going back to 'normal,' with wondering when i'll get back on the bike. i did find a park out near lakeland where there is a park with mountain bike trails. so once and a while i'll take the bike and ride from the parking lot to the park. five miles down the road. hit the trails. come back. so i'll get some riding in there.

until next time...
do not miss this opportunity.
be safe, be well...