Ayayayayayayay.

I am tired of work for the year. This is the easiest time of the year right now, with everything winding down but before the end of year hysteria sets in. The testing has concluded, and for a few weeks, life is actually FUN! We teach for fun, instead of teaching for testing and accountability, and it's a whole new world that way.

The HL and I are hanging in... we had a weekend last weekend that I'd term productive, not necessarily fun. By productive, I mean we talked about some real issues... we talked about them in the abstract, not personally, but real conversations about consequential matters and how we perceive and value them, are movement, to me. It keeps the interactions dynamic and meaningful, not simply social and trivial. We argued a little about marriage and what it means, and I have verified that he and I have NOTHING in common perspectively about it. Ha! At the same time, we made plans to travel back to my home state for my nephew's baptism, and we've worked in a trip of our own, at the same time. It'll occur during a difficult time of the work year, but I will surmount that obstacle later. Right now, I'm actually very excited about the plans we've made!

A few times after work in the past couple of weeks, I've headed down to a city park to rollerblade before going home. You know, it makes my day to do that. I go home feeling a lot prouder of myself, more exhilarated, and energized... and I sleep WONDERFULLY well. Fifty minutes of that kind of exercise is good for the soul, apparently, not just for the body.