Good Words

I liked this article.
It kind of puts Kobe in perspective. Check it out.

Sleepless Nights and Thanks

I don't know what the deal is, but I have had a slew of sleepless nights lately. During the school year, I didn't have a lot of nights like this, but now that school is over it is like my body realizes I don't have to sit in class or work all day and it doesn't want to shut down for the night. Oh well. I'll make due and hope I can find the ol' rhythm when things get back to a heavier grind. For now, I will continue to sit up at night and think about the opportunity I have to teach my own course this summer. That is what seems to dominate my thought while I am sitting around trying to trick my body into thinking it is tired.

I really do feel blessed to have my own class. It was a little over 6 years ago that I decided I wanted to be a teacher. (I say teacher instead of professor because I want to teach, not profess) Since that decision, I have tried hard to orient my life in the direction that would someday get me to the front of a classroom and that day is approaching quickly. I am still a few years off of really achieving my goal and getting a real paycheck, but I can't help but get really excited for my first crack at it, and I don't mean the paycheck thing. My adult life is a pretty small chunk of time, but this is what I have been hoping for and working towards for that time and I cannot wait for it to be here. Its like when I was little and played the dreidel while waiting up at night for Santa to come. Oh, the good old days.

Anyway, the reason I am blabbering about this is to say thank you. Chances are, if you are reading this, you have played a significant part in my life at some point and I cannot take credit for my successes as I, in part, am a sum of those that have surrounded me. So thank you.