It's been a while

I knooooow! It's been forever. I bet no one is even reading this anymore. To whoever is, I'm sincerely sorry for not writing sooner. I've had a string of bad luck recently, especially when its computer related. I've been in my amazing, wonderful, superbly comfortably apartment for a month now. It took us 1 week to get internet, we had internet for a week and it worked perfectly, then the entire building lost internet for a week and then my laptop stopped working...for about a week. Yep, so my math is right and that's why I haven't been able to post. Sure I have internet access at school but the only time I really go to school is to plan or teach. I don't have time to do much else. After a full weekend I can barely stand because I've been on my feet for 12 hours straight for 2 days. Not exactly 24 hours straight but some days it feels like it.
So what's been going on in my life. Well a month ago I moved into an awesome apartment with some awesome people. I've had bronchitis for a little over a month. I'm no longer one of the newbies at work. So many new teachers have started and so many have left and my friends and I have fallen into a weird middle ground.
Tomorrow evening is our work Christmas party. It's supposed to be fancy and I was going to get a dress made but decided to just wear a dress I already own and get dresses made for Christmas day and my birthday day. I found some awesome material, AMAZING material at a place we call the 'fabric market' and will find a tailor soon. In order to prepare for tomorrow's festivities they've cancelled all classes after 5pm and my only class for the day starts at 5:30pm so I'm farrrrreeeeee. I'm getting a massage in the morning, then I'm getting my hair done and then I'm getting my nails done and that will hopefully leave me with enough time to take a nap before the party.
Last week Tuesday my academic manager observed my class and today we finally had a chance to sit down and discuss his feedback. The system they have in place is a really good thing I think. There's so much that teachers who have been doing it for a while can teach me and I just have to be able to absorb as much as I can. My feedback was pretty positive. For example, my AM thinks I have really good teacher presence and a really good teacher voice but I need to move past being nice and more into stricter classroom management. I never thought someone would tell me to be less nice.
I've also had a lot of time to think about things. Who I am as a person, what I want out of life, things like that. I do most of my thinking on the back of xeom's. I take them everywhere and when I'm back there with nothing to do but sit there and try to not fall off I contemplate life. One of the conclusions I've come about myself is that I'm a bit of a daredevil. Not a full blown one because I have limits but enough of one because I like the danger that riding on the back bikes affords. Next thing I'll do is jump off a waterfall. :D
I'm going to get back to sitting in my living with all the lights off except our brand new Christmas lights. ::sigh:: It's beginning to feel like Christmas.