this is the last week before school starts.

not that it's of any real consequence to me, i'm not in school, taking classes or anything like that, but i do work with students so i'm still acutely aware of the school calendar. i'm in one of the places where kids still don't actually start school until after labor day, the flip side is that they don't get out for the summer til mid-june sometime. friends in texas (hi Laura!!) have been in class for a week and a half or so, friends at wheaton start class today.

so i'm thinking about school and this is the second fall where i'm not a participant in the whole thing, i mean unless you count the years before i started kindergarten, but this is the first time that i feel really aware of it. my attention was sort of dominated last year by trying to find a place to live and stuff like that, i'll talk more about that on monday i think, but right now i've got this sort of feeling that i'm missing out on something, even though i realize that thousands of students long for the day they can live through an august/september that doesn't see them start school.

other stuff, hmm. i added another link, this time to paul's website, replete with blog. paul's a good man, being a former wrestling teammate, he's one of few people who's seen me with a buzzcut, it wasn't pretty. last time i saw him, if i recall, was when we had lunch at chili's, the one at preston & lbj and that was far too long ago. yah so there's that and bone has a job interview next week, i know, his blog said so. it's in the thriving metropolis that is cedar rapids, iowa. i definitely don't envy him the destination, though i am a bit envious of where his stopover'll be, my kinda town, it is. if it all works out, he'll be doing something he wants/likes to do, and, he'll put dallas, texas in his rearview mirror, both things i figure he wants sooner than later, so i hope it shakes out well.

i think i'll go back, as soon as i can figure out what i want to study. suggestions, as always, are welcome.

feeling: vital, i've been running lately
thinking of: clothes in the dryer
music: "dear friend" charlie peacock