vacation, job update and i have a date!

oh yeah, baby. i am finally on my first official FAT vacation. i have the next 2 weeks off and what more is there to say?


i CAN'T believe that christmas break is finally here. it has been a grueling/gnarly/hilarious/tense few months as a first year teacher. i have been on the job now since september 6th and wow. i had zero idea how much work is involved. my heart my mind and my soul is here today to applaud all those who do a job that requires so much behind the scenes activity.


another teacher asked me th'other day how it was going and maybe cuz i was on vacation i smiled and said "great!"


there's so much truth to initial responses...no time for guile! (and that's a good thing)

and it's true. it has been great. i'm so glad to be able to say that!


p.s. i plan on squeezing out every bit of good time from this 15 days that i possibly can. wish me luck :)

rad hike with rad friends th'other day!

magnolia (not the white-girl) took me and krystal on this hike around thanksgiving....it followed a creek bed and wound its way up into the cahuilla lake mountains....we found a shimmering waterfall at the end and then went on to discover an oasis...we saw NO ONE, not even an animal...only skins of snakes long slithered away...and did i mention that it was amazing? thanks, mag.

hanauma bay, oahu 2004 - one of those views in my minds desktop

message in a bottle

in case anyone finds this, anyone meaning the perfect man for me or another perfect girlfriend, here are some things you should know about me:

1. i am easily amused.
2. i remember my dreams.
3. i have a tender heart.
4. i love plain donuts and milk.
5. i like to stay up late and clean sometimes.
6. i will most likely adore you.
7. when i sleep, i start out on my back arms splayed out over my head...
8. once i pushed a boy that i hated into a fence and ran (he got hurt and i still feel guilty)
9. if you leave notes for me i will love you more.
10. i pee in pools.

been gone

yah, been gone for awhile...in a galaxy far, far away? no doubt. and here i am, it's saturday night...was supposed to get together with a friend and she stood me up! what's a girl to do?
this living alone thing is not working out the way i had planned...hopefully, either i'll get used to it OR i'll figure out a way to get people over. maybe i should sell lemonade. or churros.
i dunno.
sigh.
it's saturday night and i have simple desires. would like to be curling up in my bed next to my lover and watching a movie. or watching him breathe. either one would really be heavenly.

itchy forehead

another day here. my eyes are looking elsewhere. thinking about moving again. don't want to stay for longer than is absolutely necessary. in fact, don't want to any more at all, but there simply is no way around that sheningans.

me again

so anyway....it's may now. hooray. HOO-FREAKING-RAY is what i say. i want time to fly...fly fly on wings of almost invisible speed...yeah, like a hummingbird.

life is nice though. i'm still in yucca. the other day i had another late night attack of obsession. those happen every so often. basically, something has to have been nagging at my mind for quite some time before this occurs. some sort of problem....then, i get to wake up at usually the early dawn and think think think about my solution which just appears to me so subtley like old faded spots never seen on a white shirt....and then i go back to sleep, so glad that i've finally figured things out....i smile with self-satisfaction...and then i awake. usually hours later whereupon i think, "yay, good job, megan!" and then whamo! reality hits me. and my plan is nothing. this is how it is: during the night, my heart totally opened up and figured things out, without help from my brain (cuz it was sleeping) and then when my brain does wake up in the morning, it's like "sister, you is one CRAZY FREAK."

:D

so....this is something personal about me that you now know. do you find that amusing?

where have i been?

i found the raddest sign while looking behind the clerks desk at the post office. it said:

i'm lost.
i've gone to look for myself.
if i should get back,
before i return,
please ask me to wait.

food poisoning

got it the other day. either that, or my body was possessed. it was crazy town!!!! i haven't been that sick in years...want to hear it all? okay. i was throwing up and you know what-ing every hour on the hour from 1am till 10am. it was brutal. at one point i'm hugging the toilet bowl with my nose just 2 inches away from NASTINESS and thinking, "like wow. the sight of that @#$%! doesn't make me want to up-chuck. and i have super-powers against barfing!"
so yeah. it was horrible.
after losing all the food in my system from probably days, i felt like a wispy human wafer too. not something you feel very often at this age.
it made me grateful to not be 90 yet. or 75. or any age where that kind of state was consistent. it's really amazing how closely knit our spirits and our bodies are...( was also thinking that intermittantly.) my spirit was SO DOWN. i didn't want to talk or think about anybody. everything just was so easily swept aside because of the physical misery. scary stuff. how many people feel like that on a daily basis? heavy stuff. glad i am better. would rather not think about it.
you can see how well that is working...
:)

anyway...today was a good day. as long as there's some laughter, and i can control my bowel movements, life rocks!

subbing rules

yeah, substitue teaching rules. i'm totally loving it! and getting plenty of work too!! and i do believe i'm going to enjoy doing this for quite some time...