floating bookshelves

it's like i'm living in my own little summer camp. wake up, make coffee, eat cookies for breakfast, go outside and read and watch the dog get tangled around plants and poles, come inside, shower, eat breakfast, do some crafts and gardening, check the mail, run to town, come back home to continue with the crafting, gardening, and reading, take a nap.... it's pretty lovely. i'm also trying to balance all of this returning to mother nature bullshit with academic stuff = preparing my syllabi, doing curriculum mapping, etc. i met the new technology guy at the high school i'm going to be teaching at and i think we are going to be a tag-team of technology. the school is kind of living in 1974 as far as computers and technology goes, and our principal is absolutely adamant about us shaking stuff up. pretty exciting to walk into a place where you're expected to and encouraged to make huge changes to the way things have been. even if i can't show my tats. i also asked if it would be ok to show horror movies in class and the principal (also a priest..... crazy) was very much excited about that. what kind of catholic school is this? technology? making changes? outrageous! i also met another new teacher = guy in his early 20s who is also a priest. kind of weird to meet a person younger than you who's wearing the whole priest get-up and is all into the big JC. and he was shaking all nervous-like during the whole conversation..... apparently he was a chemistry major in college, but then changed to the god stuff. but, as he stared at the floor and tried to avoid eye contact with me, he stuttered out that he was really happy with the choice he made and that he had started out wanting to go to grad school for chemistry but then ... you know... this came up. i had to fucking pretend my lips were glued together to not say "yeah... i was really hoping to be a catholic priest, but then that whole doctorate of biochemistry path kind of threw itself in front of me." he also mentioned something about doing team teaching. um.... no. no. no. no. i don't do group projects and i sure as shit don't do team teaching. especially with a man of the cloth. i appreciate the dedication to black, but no.

my craft of the day: the floating bookshelf. easy to make and looks pretty rad.