hey! my 101st post!

that means that my last post was my 100th.

that's why i asked about whether or not i should keep it up.

100 posts is a lot of work. it's not necessarily the work i put in, it's the feeling i get that i'm letting someone down. i don't enjoy the pressure.

that's why i don't agree to anything. want to hang out this friday? yeah, maybe. pencil me in.

want to go to the game next month? well, that's a long way away. how about don't count on it.

see, if i say 'probably not', and then i do go, it's a 'surprise' as well, so i get to double dip. i enjoy that part.

i went to value village on friday night a few fridays ago. my gal and i enjoy this lingering over old items. friday night is when they put out all of the better items, in anticipation of the saturday shoppers. i picked up angela's ashes, in hard cover, for $2.99. now, there is something terribly funny about buying that book for 3 bucks. a pulitzer winner. 3 bucks, thrown among the rest of the world's junk and detritus and unloved. so fitting. i'm surprised it didn't come with a used band-aid or a dirty shoe lace. the book was decent, and a testimony to the meaninglessness of pulitzers . i've decided to try for one myself. i'll write a book about myopia.

so i've moved on to levity, and am reading Eragon. I picked it up the day i had a procedure at the hospital, and winded up barely able to talk or walk, and with no memory of how i had really gotten to where i was, so i hit the new used bookstore and got scammed. 9.95 for a book is a bit out of my range, but i was happy for the safe haven. the crows and buzzards were swirling around me on the street. i saw the film at christmas time with the family, and enjoyed it. i do love fantasy. dragons and magic and honour and nobleness. a perfect feeling for an imperfect world.

i cease driving to hamilton in 2 weeks plus a day. i am beyond overjoyed... i am drunk. not really, but i would like to be. unfortunately, i have too much work to do before i finish.

i will get a march break (HAHAHAHA!!) and hopefully will have one forevermore after. then i commence teaching a grade 4 class. i look forward to this immensely, although the workload is incredible.

i also had the good fortune of getting an interview with the toronto district school board. if i make the grade, i am put on the eligible to hire list, which is a very very big deal.

pray for me.
and the raptors.
and your lovely selves. i am back. thank you for your voices.

i now know that it is okay that i not always post.
i am a cafe.