Thanks for any comments and emails — I’m sort of of the mind that if I say it out loud, it keeps bad shit at bay, you know?  I’ve also figured out my worst case scenario (it involves a Lifetime Movie script and the internet) and by figuring out what would suck the most, it makes the most likely outcomes far less scary.  I don’t have an appointment yet, but I’m not going to freak out.

There’s good stuff going on, too, aside from the whole "I’m STILL pregnant!" thing.  I got a letter from a former student over the weekend, Geoffrey, one of my faves.  They were all faves in their own way, but Geoffrey and I had our shared love of reality TV and Gary Paulsen books.  I had asked him to send me a postcard from Alaska, before school got out, and never got it, but whatever — he’s a 14 year old kid! The letter on Saturday was the postcard, but he mailed it with a two page typed letter because he "couldn’t fit everything he wanted to say" on the card.  It was just an update on ihg school, his new house (his mom and stepdad moved into the new house while he was with his dad over the summer, which is how he lost my address), his summer in AK, all that general stuff.  I wrote him back to thank him for remembering me, and I told him about the baby, and who my likes/dislikes were for TAR and Survivor. hee.

Dave was astounded that I got a letter in the first place.  "Kids don’t SEND LETTERS to their old teachers, you know."  I’ve gotten an email here and there from kids, and I always write back when they do.  It’s cool, though, to know I’m still remembered by them. 

School is going okay — I feel like I spent the first half in a fog, the first tri, m/c fears, etc make it feel like it never even happened, and I have some big projects due soon, and I’m looking forward to the end of the semester, because that means they’re done. But I still have to DO them. Next semester will be better, none of my classes are with jesusfreak, one is a networking class (no theory!) and one is a seminar, which will be my first. I have no idea what to expect, but I’ll find out.  And man, worst case scenario, I fuck up a project this term, I can turn it in late. This is probably the toughest, because of the classes I have — assessment, instructional design, and multimedia — all require major projects. From what I know, networking doesn’t, so that’s at LEAST one class with NO. MAJOR. PROJECT. Thank god.

Anyway, I’m really looking forward to next semester.  My schedule will be different, I’ll be able to do the prenatal classes and yoga, and even my evening classes start earlier than they did this term. (My latest class this term is 5:30-8, which SUCKS. Spring06, I get out no later than 7:30. WAY BETTER. Not to mention, I won’t spend the first 10 weeks dead tired from the first tri, either.

And! At the end of the Spring semester!??!!

BABY!!