I'm hot 'cause I'm fly....

When I arrived back in KC last week, it was definitely still warmer than IA, but not by much. This week has been different. It started out soggy, but has dried out the last couple days, and today spring just absolutely exploded in Kansas City. I swear, the grass turned green overnight, trees are budding/blooming, it's still 50 degrees at 7 PM. I'm loving it most definitely. Arizona is a great place to grow up, but there really is nothing like watching the seasons change, which doesn't happen in Tucson.

Spring also means college basketball is in full swing. March Madness has officially started, and it is officially awesome. I'm running a little less than 75% accurate on my bracket, but some of my teams I have going all the way are in trouble right now. Oh well.
It's sort of sad, but I mostly have to watch these games by myself. My roommate could care less, and there's another guy in the complex who would watch them with me, except he also wants a date, so I'm avoiding him.

Speaking of dates, I have never been so sought after in my life, and it's unnerving... This guy who's a sort-of neighbor and friend of my roommate asked me out to a movie, which I turned down, and then on Sunday the same guy from church (see...four posts ago?) asked me out again. The claim is that, if you don't find someone in college, it's harder to find someone after, but I've definitely had more guys interested in me off campus than I ever did on it. WEIRD.

Once, I watched a movie called "The Wild Wild World of Batwoman." It was TER-rible, but delightful at the same time. I'm going to spend this weekend dancing nonstop in a frivolous, 1960s fashion.

All things go, all things go

I finally caved and got the new blogger, although I think I was forced to. It just happened. I have a sneaking suspicion that the new blogger is run by the man. It's hard to stick it to the man when he runs your blog. Unless you use...........code? Or Jimi Hendrix lyrics? Or are those the same thing?

I'm back in IA for the week, and it's freakin' cold here. That's all I'm going to complain about. Otherwise it's been great seeing people and doing stuff and talking about how I still don't want to face the future. I like people here.

So in my conversations here the past few days, I think I'm beginning to recognize the reason for my hesitation to start moving forward (by doing important things like filling out applications and sitting interviews). My problem is that I love teaching students, and I love the relationships I am able to develop with them, but I do not particularly like schools. It's part of my general aversion to institutions, I guess, but I hate the politics and bureaucracy and kowtowing to administrators who do not make good decisions on things and dealing with other teachers who are annoying or intimidating or just plain weird. So my options are to either find the perfect school which will let me do things my way, for the most part, or to do something else for a while, until I lose my wild-eyed idealism and settle for something that pays slightly more than minimum wage. Gah! I'm really struggling with the extent to which I can live by the promise that "tomorrow will take care of itself" while still being responsible to use the mind God gave me to make decisions and step into the unknown with purpose, rather than stumbling into it backwards.

P.S. If you don't know what a kowtow is, look it up. It will help flesh out your world history knowledge and give you something in common with one billion Chinese.