posted 2005/08/05 at 07:10
*Yawn* ... geesh, I am so not with this whole "get up with the sun" thing. The only reason I'm getting up this early is because I'll have to be up early to catch Penny as she's driving through town on Sunday for our trip to the Toledo Botanical Garden. It's not that I have anything against morning people, mind you, but I just don't understand that whole impulse. Night is so much better for thinking and creating, anyway, since the world gets so quiet then. (Although maybe all these years of living with I-475 in my backyard has me thinking strange things about how noise levels.)
I do have some things to do today that are being helped by my getting up so early, though. For one thing, I'll be going to pay my bill for the upcoming semester at UT in a little while, and then I'll be heading off to one of the satellite campus where they've stuck me for my first teaching gig. I've had classes at that campus before, and I want to check my assigned classroom out because I fear it's one of the classrooms where the tables are all bolted down and I won't be able to have the class sit in a circle like I need them to. (It's teaching methodology, I won't bore you with the details.) I hardly think I'm in a position to ask for a change of rooms given how low I am on the seniority scale, but I'm kind of tight with the interim chair of the English Department and maybe I can get a favour here. We'll see.
I suppose the big question is DDR/ITG today, because I haven't played for a while here and I need to start getting back into the flow here. (I think all the time off of playing has helped me deal with some of the psychological issues I had going, at least.) Marc is heading up to Ann Arbor this afternoon, but last time I was up there the ITG machine was the only one that was working properly, and if I'm going to drive that far then it only makes sense for me to drive a little further up to suburban Detroit to try out ITG2 and (with any luck) run into Jessi again. I kind of get the feeling that I'd rather stay in town, though, and put off any big travel plans for a while.
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