Into the Fire

I'm doing better than I was yesterday. Then again, yesterday was just an awful day all around. I would complain more about it, but I'm just putting it behind me. I'm just glad I lived through it. I'm just looking forward to Liam's departure on Sunday and after that going to see my friend J in Chicago. I haven't seen him in like a year so it's definitely overdue. We've decided on how we're going to celebrate our birthdays - drinkies at the Hancock Building and then out to dinner somewhere. Maybe for the fun of it, I'll dress up all pretty for him. Oh goodness, let's be honest, I'm doing it for me. I just want to feel pretty lately and this is definitely a boost.

My latest obsession is John Adams... yes, as in the second president of these States united. I saw the mini-series a few weeks ago and am starting to hack through the 600+ page biography the series is based upon. So far so good. I'm also reading the collected letters of John and his wife, Abigail. I'm not very far into it - only one letter - but gracious I wish a man would write me letters like that. They're eloquent with such love between the lines. He truly adored her without having all the letters being all mushy and uncomfortably intimate. He just writes about his time away from her and that he misses the counsel of his "dearest friend". How sweet. It's so nice to have finally found something worth reading. I've been floundering in the sea of not-so-great fiction. Ick.

I've been keeping busy though. Lots of trips to the pool and I'm starting to get a very nice tan. I've been writing more... mostly journaling, and of course reading more. I'm working on my pieces for my auditions and am getting more and more excited about them. I'll be fabulous of course. :) I'm just happy the way things are going right now. I've applied for a few jobs with the school district and have decided on my back up plan, should grad school not work out. I've decided I'll actually go back and get my teaching license. I should have done it in the first place, but it was way too much coloring and not enough actual work for me. But it may be necessary. *sigh* I don't want to have to teach high school, middle school or elementary students, but if necessary, I will. Maybe I'll go back and get my license in English.. I could teach that or maybe Kindergarten. I don't know. We'll just have to see how it goes. I'm getting in to grad school. So i don't really have to worry about it. :)