Domestic Geek

I was just going through some books in my bookshelf looking for something when I came across an old yearbook (1991-92) from when I was teaching. It got me to pondering what the hell has happened to me since then.

I used to consider myself to be pretty. I've always been heavy, but I took care of myself and I felt good. True, I hated the whole teaching situation (I liked working with kids, but I HATED the whole organized education institution), but I still liked me. I don't even know if I like me anymore. I've gotten lazy, selfish, and even a bit mean to some people (as was pointed out by Marcus the other day). I thought then that he was full of it, but just yesterday I caught myself being a total bitch to someone I really don't know that well.

I have so much potential, but yet I fail to realize it. Why?

Every summer Platt College has a picnic for the faculty, staff and students. Last year I had just started classes when the picnic rolled around, so I didn't know anybody and didn't have a real good time. This year I had a blast. I got a little sunburned in our 100°F+ heat today. The coolest thing that occurs at this is the college president, Jerry, lets the students throw water balloons and wet spongeballs at him. I've posted some pictures here.

I was just watching "Passions" on my Dish (we've got the East/West coast packages) and the program was interrupted by news of a car that had plowed through a Santa Monica, CA farmer's market. Several people were killed, many more injured. An elderly man driving a maroon car was at fault. Some witnesses think he was having a heart attack. Others say the man seemed fine. They just interviewed the police chief Butts and he said it was the worst accident he'd seen in 30 years. He said the most horrific part was a crushed two-year-old child. How tragic. I really hope this wasn't intentional.

OK, the upgrade went well for the most part. I made the mistake of importing my entries instead of exporting and had double entries. That took awhile to fix. If anyone knows an easy way to clear a MySQL database of it's values without losing it's fields, please let me know. (I know absolutely nada about such things.) Anyway, I went back to an MT default template for now and am going to work on totally redoing this thing. Unfortunatley, I have to go to bed now, so this will have to wait until tomorrow.

Current mood: nervous
Well, I'm about to begin some upgrading to my site. Mainly, my movabletype and my gallery. I'll work on some MT hacks and stuff I want to try if all goes well. So, if my site doesn't work anymore, that's the cause. Keep your fingers, eyes, and toes crossed for me. Thanks.