Not a bad day, overall.  Woke up with some GOF* before Dave went off to work, and then I drank tea and stalled around the house for a bit.  Andy was going to the uni, so I decided to hitch a ride with him and –gasp! — actually work on my grad school stuff.

The awkward moment was seeing my friend Jen, who read at the wedding and is/was? dating the best man/Dave’s best friend, but then sort of dropped out of sight (A Too Married, thing, I’m afraid) even though the best man didn’t (he was here last night, even).  That was the worst sentence ever. Anyway, saw her today while with Andy, and eased over the awkwardness by teasing Andy about his Spanish class crush: "Donde este sausage?" It was pretty funny, but maybe you had to be there.

Then, on Stillwater, Andy saved a dog from certain death.  It was running up a hill, full speed, opposing traffic.  He was tagged, so we went to the owner’s house, who was basically indifferent. Grr.

THEN, I hunkered down in the lab and got to work.

I actually hammered out a bunch of work.  I love my Master’s program, and I love being on campus.  My ideal would be to work on campus, in pretty much any job. I love it THAT much.  There’s an energy there that doesn’t occur at most places, and I miss being there full time.

The class I’m taking now is self-paced, as it’s an online course. And, despite my IT major, I HATE online courses.  My big thing with IT is that there is balance, and an all online course isn’t balanced. I want to be part of the bigger conversation, you know?

Regardless, I got to work and got so INTO it. I was going through the databases and reading abstracts and research and reporting out and just WANTING to be a bigger part of the IT world.  I’m lucky, in a sense, and I know it, that I am teaching in the midst of MLTI.  This is what I championed the whole year I was in Americorps, and I’m the only one who is actually IN there, USING it.  I don’t know what everyone did after our service year, but those I do know, aren’t doing anything with tech and education, except for me.  It’s really quite amazing that I went from "Ask me about the laptops!" buttons to actually TEACHING WITH THEM. EVERY DAY.  And now, I’m in graduate school for instructional tech, and it’s all because of Clinton’s idea to create a domestic version of Peace Corps. (It saddens me that our program didn’t get re-funded after 9/11 because more money had to go to ‘Homeland Security,’ and that the Bush administration has been trying to drastically cut Americorps funding and programs.)

So, yes. I need to be focussing in on this more.  I signed up for next semester, I still have more work to do this semester but a bunch is done, and by June I will be about 1/3 done with my M. Ed. Cool.

* The Uterus Update

Positive OPK on Tuesday and Wednesday, with yesterday’s darker. I also have discovered a new ovulation symptom, nausea and um, diarrhea, which blows, because who wants any F, let alone GOF when you feel like crap? Grrr…  I didn’t OPK today because I was at the uni, and then went to the movies, but since there was some GOF anyway, I figure it’s a moot point. I’ll OPK tomorrow, though, just to be sure.

Anyway, a romp this morning, and if the every-other-day is what I should do, well, don’t call too early on Saturday.

And thus, the wait begins.