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It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything, so here we are.

Had a meeting with my principal today to talk about this past year and this coming year.  It went well.  Just a couple things I need to work on, mostly not being a smart ass every once and a while.
Almost every day I’ll say something and maybe include a gesture that I shouldn’t.  About 5 seconds after I’ll wonder why the hell I did such a thing.  I don’t know if I’ve ever come up with a reason other than wanting to show how smart I am at the expense of others.
This especially happens with Em…so sorry Em!

Towards the end of last year I decided that if I could not teach without the aide of drugs I didn’t want to do it at all.  I survived the last couple of weeks without drugs and the summer of huge ups and downs (engaged to a wonderful gal vs. that wonderful gal’s father passing away) until TODAY.

After my meeting with the principal I met with the other business teacher for a little while to talk about the advisory committee we’re putting together and the upcoming business education conference.  While doing all of this I started to feel the anxiety building up like it did at the beginning of this past school year.
Thinking about: what to do in the advisory meeting, what I’ll do that day between the first practice of cross country season (and what to do for practice, and what time) and the advisory meeting, if I’m going to have clothes that will fit for the conference in a couple weeks, if I can get student aid for my Masters program at UCM, and so on.

So I did what I did at the beginning of last school year.  Came home and curled up on my bed.  Em went home yesterday so I sent her a message and talked with her a little bit.

I guess we’ll see what happens and if I can start the year off without the need of anti-anxiety medication.

So I asked a young lady to marry me and she said okey dokey.

(She didn’t actually say those words…but she did say yes)

My book came in Thursday evening, which was a suprise as I didn’t expect it until Friday. Unfortunately didn’t get to take a look at it until Friday as I had to get up at 4:30am Friday to head to school, pick up a school bus, and drive to Macon for my school bus drivers exam.

It’s the most nevervous I’ve been in a long long time, but I passed.  [A bus pre-trip inspection is a pain in the @ss!]  In order to get my CDL license I was given the opportunity to pay the state $70!  Good thing school is reinbursing me!

I got back from the test, paid the state it’s money, and had a few minutes to take a look at the book, Trends and Issues in Instructional Design and Technology by Resier and Dempsey.  Then I packed up and headed to Em’s house for her step-sister Cassi’s wedding on Saturday.

Em, Christy, and Carol did much more work then they should of had to.  But I suppose that’s the joy of having a wedding at someone’s home.

Got back to Columbia a few hours ago and finished reading the chapters I was supposed to for this past week and posted a couple items on Blackboard .

“That is so last year

Variations on the same idea exist in other ringtons, that take the usual ‘cutoff’ age to hear them even younger, I think late 20s-early 30s.”

Scott is a punk.

Tonight I decided I’m naming my first son Tuff Thomas Reynolds.
In other news, the Centralia Basketball Tournament is going on this week.  Girls played tonight, and boys play tomorrow night at 6pm.

I meant to post this up last week..but it’s been sitting in my head until now.

Driving home from school on Route Z last Thursday I drove by a couple cornfields that were being harvested.   I almost pulled into a driveway to sit there and soak it up.

Soak what up?  Memories of jumping in the back of grandpa’s big truck that had just been, or was in the process of being,  filled up with corn and almost burying myself.
Riding with grandpa in the combine, and wanting to be a farmer when I grew up.

Miss you grandpa…wish I had more time with you.

Got back into town a little past 11pm. Overall we had an awesome trip!

It’s 2am now and time for me to play a little bit more NCAA Football.
Happy birthday Scott!

Spent this past weekend helping Tom start building another patio on his lake house.

**When I got there Friday night there was only three concrete supports at the bottom of the picture.**

A side view

View from the water

I miss you wave runners

Had a great 4th of July.
Emily and I went home and went to the movies and grilled all sorts of food with mom, dad, Scott, Tracy, and Snickers. Pictures will be posted this evening.

In other news: I’m really impressed with CNN.com’s updated design.