I'm back..

Wow, I haven't posted in a while. I guess I owe you all a good update. I'll start with the wedding. The week of was crazy, if it could have gone wrong, it probably did. The flowers didn't arrive until the day before the wedding, and they were wrong. The deacon's plane got delayed in New York Friday night, so we didn't get to rehearse until the day of the wedding. The boys locked the car keys (and their tuxes) in the car so the whole thing was about 20 minutes late. Once the wedding started though, it was fabulous. Karen was beautiful, Jason was handsome, and now they're married, so that's all that matters! The reception was a lot of fun, and the after reception at the hotel was even more fun! It was soo nice to see all my family, and I genuinely think everybody had a great time!

After the wedding, I did a lot of decompressing and rushing to get actual work done for school. I also went to my first hockey game, which was awesome!! I've watched hockey on tv before, and found it pretty boring. The live games, though, are fantastic, they even let the guys fight! In other sports, the refs try to break it up, but in hockey it's all fair game until somebody wins. The predators won against the Annaheim Ducks (no longer mighty) in overtime, which made everything very exciting.

Once I got back to school, the stress began. Due to a VERY complicated chain of scheduling problems, I was left with only 2 classes to take. I have to have 3 to remain full time and keep my job. Dilemma. So this week I'm "interviewing" a couple classes by sitting in on them to decide what I should take as my third class. I'll keep you posted on how it goes. I should know by tomorrow...

Today I had a very good discussion with a friend about education. Basically about how we dumb down America's education system to cater to the lowest level of understanding. No Child Left Behind is good in theory, but in actuality, some students are going to be left behind. Some students, in fact, want to be left behind, and in catering the unmotivated learners who don't care, we're really punishing the motivated students who want to excel. I certainly don't have the answer, but I think we need to find it. When I became a math major, my career goal was to teach. I've been a member of "Future Educators of America" since junior high, and I was a tutor in high school and college. I really really enjoyed it. I think a lot of people are turned off of teaching because it's not viewed as a glamorous, respectable profession the way doctor and lawyer are. Also, the money really sucks. I haven't completely written off the idea of teaching, but those issues are factors, certainly. I think that's part of the problem. If teachers made more money and the profession ranked with astronaut and rocket scientist, I think we could attract far more qualified and eager applicants. Anyway, enough of that - time for me to hit the sack. Good night all, and I'll try to be more diligent about updating now that I'm back at school.