Hooray!!!!  Good for you,RTG!  Congrats and all the best!

thanks angel, k, curlgirl, and bb for all the kind words! i'm so excited about this new position-and also realizing i need to get organized for the school year in two weeks!!!! most my teaching experience has been in lower grades, so this my first year with older students. i'm really excited though.
wow.
things have just happened really fast it seems like-lots going on in the past week.

thanks curlgirl...good reminder and one i frequently need 

well autumn is coming and with it-business for a teacher! i'm so excited about my new teaching position, and am working furiously and planning my classes out. hmm, i may even go buy two new work shirts to celebrate...i really need more professional clothes. i'm so drawn to gypsy-like patterned clothes that are more flower child than professional, although thankfully, teaching is a career where you can be a little less rigid in dress than say..an attorney or something. so right now i do have a full closet, but most of it is not good for work.

hair-it is growing!!! i was glad to notice some of the thickness coming back as my waves grow back in. i have big, wide waves, not tight small ones, so when it's short it looks chaotic at times but when it's longer it has a good shape. a house guest of mine tried my jason shampoo and vinegar rinse and she really liked it! so may have gotten someone else hooked on the stuff. now for the fall, i'm going to wear it to school in wide head bands (down) or pinned up with a few nice jewelled bobby pins i found at a boutique. it might be a little wispy on the sides until they get longer, but i think that's ok.

YOU GOT A JOB!!!! YAHOO

RTG, so sorry you are having problems with contacts.  On the bright side, glasses are in now-a-days.   I have been blessed with good eye sight so far...but when (not if) it goes...I don't think I could do contacts...you have read my journal...eye surgery and anything to do with the eye makes me feel...sick.  I have had to do surgery on animals...but I dont HAVE to put contacts in so I don't think I could.  I am sure you will look great in your glasses.

Take care chum,

JD

I've never had much of a problem with contacts... but eye surgery still freaks me out! I don't mind putting something near my eyes myself, but anybody else doing so... NO WAY.  I hope your new glasses work well for you and look good doing it.. mine don't really do either anymore.

hmm, no new glasses yet. they are still being shipped to my doc's office. i guess because wearing them all the time is a new thing for me, i'm excited to get my new ones. i guess a watched pot never boils.

hair-washed, acv and conditioned yesterday. today, soft, but a little wild in the morning. my waves are still short enough to go in any direction in the morning, so i always am surprised by new patterns they create on their own.    right now i've just pulled it back in to what's gotta be the world's shortest pony tail. grow, grow! argh.

not much else to report....have been  planning out my classes-which start in a week and a half...with the new school year!  wow, summer went fast. i'm really excited about this new school and new position, and am trying to just skip over any nervousness i have and keep a positive attitude about it.

i picked up two new work shirts the other day-one a chocolate brown and one a deep slate blue, they are the kind that hopefully won't wrinkle too much. not dazzling but very practical, which i need at this point, as i don't have enough work clothes. now all i need is a heavy duty back pack or brief case to tote all my teacher supplies around in and some black ballet flats.

k-i have had to put robert jordan books to the side for a few weeks, as i've been reading lots of classic lit. to decide what to teach in my lit class this year. hopefully will get back to that series soon. i love reading all these dif. books, but am really in suspsense in book four, so need to finish it soon!