I'm in my element, baby...

So, my heart found Christmas...it was wonderful.

As was New Year's. My brother and sister-in-law came down from Indiana and stayed for a week. It was good to relax and spend time with the family. I saw a few movies with the women in the family: The Family Stone and Rumor Has It. I enjoyed both of them. I love seeing movies. I should go to the theater more often...there is something magical about it.

Anyway, I am now focusing on my thesis and wrapping up my time here in Abilene, and more specifically, Hardin-Simmons. I am working on and off as a substitute teacher. It's is kind of exciting because you never know where you will be. I realized today that one could write some of the best short stories ever based off the conversations between a group of middle school girls. It is insane what they talk about. I know I am not that far out of middle school...just about a decade...but things really have changed. People are not making it up. Today I worked at Mann Middle School in athletics. We played tennis...badmitton...that's what I did all day. On Thursday I work at Cooper, teaching debate and theatre arts. That's a little more "up my alley". I am kind of excited about it, and it beats sitting around working on something (my thesis) that I am not getting paid for.

Well, nothing is really going on besides the thesis and the occasional subbing. When school begins at HSU I will have more work coming my way, which will be nice. I am more motivated when I am busy. I would like to be working pretty much all the time and having to squeeze my thesis in. I think I would get more work done that way, when I know I only have a set amount of time to work.

I will write again soon...when I have something blog-worthy to talk about.

I hope all of you had a wonderful Christmas and New Year's, and that you got some quality "family time" in.