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SPRING BREAK begins.....

gender neutral what ?

THis was pretty interesting -- today in Oklahoma there was a protest on OU campus.. protesting that how dare the University not provide gender neutral housing! Boren came out and said he'd read the details in their petition.. you can read about it online at NEWSOK here...
I'd like to hear any comments for or against the special housing quarters they are protesting for in order to prevent harassment in the dorms.
I'm not sure what direction to come at this in comparison to civil rights for homosexuals and transgender and where a line would ever be drawn, it seems more reactive that proactive but I'm going to remain "neutral".

welcome home

this is for a certain mushy so in love gay friend of mine..... ;)

bromance ya

get ye to the gym....

count down....

all right just 2 more days till SPRING BREAK! I may not be going to Austin... it's all sort of up in the air right now. thing is, there is a multicultural institute conference at UCO this weekend that I'm supposed to go to for school and I probably should go Friday night to hear Dr. Krashen who is the know all know all about everything language acquisition... also to network and get to know other esl teachers attending. If my job prospect come through for next fall I'll have to start recruiting 20-50 teachers... whoah.
anyway, so that means either drive down to Austin on Saturday or just ditch it and relax at home... ahhhh which sounds really good at this point instead of that long drive. I have to be home by TUesday anyway for night class. The community college doesn't have break til the following week.
I'm doing a bit of landscaping over break next week and maybe this weekend. the bit of earth between the street in front of my house and the sidewalk is overgrown grass which I hardly mow much during the summer, so I thought of tearing half or more of it out along the sidewalk and putting in a bed of more drought tolerant stuff, and grasses and white baptisia, rattlesnake master, lychnis coronaria, etc etc.
I'm going by a place to try and match a wheel to my ford ranger , then off to a place to have the wheel switched out and balanced. I'm holding out on the alignment until after the wheels are balanced and all. my tire guy said he'd check the alignment no charge , nice!
definitely going to continue my gym time over break... summer's only a couple more months off btw. get to it guys!

not sure why this was anything shocking or new??

invisible children

bully

random cuteness....

long mon day

well it's never fun getting home an hour before bedtime, because I still want an hour to unwind, check email, get things arranged for tomorrow, and then just maybe get ready for bed etc.. WHOAH super busy today on a MONDAY. I was giving speaking tests all day to random students all day every hour. as we are testing our ESL kids all this week, no kids in a class so that wasn't so bad, but still busy day. my bud Uli came up to school and took my pick up away. He was going to get it back to me after school but had trouble with a part ( he hadn't realized he'd need to replace the top arms as well etc...) anyway, so at 5pm I had to call my buddy from out of town that I planned to meet for dinner, and luckily we'd agreed to meet just 3 miles south of my school, he said no prob and he came picked me up. we had a great great time catching up, just loved seeing him again despite of all our past overseas. and sure enough he had a very tasty offer for a job. He has taken over the company that does contract work with the govt, and in a nutshell, he's trying to get a contract for a possibility here in OKC that would be 5 years and wanted me to be the guy in charge of "professional development" ahh yeah!!!! $$$$ ... I can't say too much but let's just say he really wants me to be a part of it and I think it would be pretty dad gum awesome. however when it comes to govt contracts, nothing is ever ever ever for sure until everything is approved and goes through a hundred cirlces etc. so we shall see. I am still going to pursue the admin job at my school district as a facilitator, but if the contract comes through here in OKC, I might just possibly be IN! ha
well Uli never arrived with my pickup, so instead I had my bud drop me off at the garage. When I arrived they were detailing my pickup. ha. he'd wanted to surprise me but still I was surprised. it's NEVER been so clean, they hosed out the inside floor and rubbed it all down inside and out, they were buffing it up when I arrived. ha... Uli and I used to have this joke that he said he'd read in a magazine somehwere in Mexico and we both agreed it was true. That in Mexico they throw the trash out the window but in USA we throw it on the floor of our cars. ha so yeah my pickup had cups and lids and whatever all cleaned up. ha
I still need to get the wheels aligned though, it was shaking over 64 mph on the ride back home. He's also looking for a replacement wheel for my front wheel that I bumped into a curb with last week in the snow.
all right all I'm a gonna CRASH now. long day tomorrow teaching both job yadda yadda.
cheers and 4 more days to SPRING BREAK!!