The yard is blooming! I love seeing the buds on the plants!! It feels like the world is filled with such promise. The new life sprouts and hope enters the picture. I swear that daylight savings time makes me a nicer person. Waking up to sunshine or even the sunrise is so much better than darkness. Having it light when you walk out of work makes such a difference! I'm not nearly so depressed when I get doses of sunshine. I wouldn't move anywhere else in the world, I love it here despite suffering through long winters. Spring is what makes it all worth it!

I'm taking 3 classes this fall. 7 credit hours. One is the pre-student teaching class. Normally I only take one or two classes. I am pretty brave to make the leap to three -- but it will get me to the finish line so much quicker! As I plan I'm even starting to ponder how I might take 3 classes next winter. Then I think I'm insane for even pondering it. But if I did that, then I'd be student teaching a year from this fall. Then it all goes well (like me getting a job right after student teaching) I'd have summer 2008 off with my kids (instead of starting student teaching fall 2008). It is fun to dream about.

I'm finally starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. It helps to have classes ending this week. Linguistics is not going to kill me after all. I'm getting at LEAST a C if not a B. I can live with that! I'm over the "gotta get an A" phase of going back for my teaching certification. Linguistics class taught me to celebrate surviving certain classes.

I have jury duty tomorrow so I'll likely be late to my last class -- I told my professor and she laughed. She thought it was pretty funny that I'm stuck. Hopefully I'll be dismissed. Going to that courthouse downtown and having to be there at 7:45 AM is obscene. It is not civilized to expect me to be there and awake that early. Hope I can find my drivers license, misplaced it and don't want to go get another today. I'm not up to a picture -- my hair is so long I'm scared of me. I hope my hairdresser can get me in this week -- otherwise I'm going to Fantastic Sam's and saying the hell with it. I have not had a cut since Christmas. YIKES.