Happy Birthday.

Officially, I know it hasn't been a year. But I also know that come the 16th, I will be so busy with planning and what-have-you, that I will not have the time to give a proper post. Therefore, I would like to commemorate the 1st birthday of this blog a couple days early.

So, to prepare for this post, I checked out some of my first posts ever. I can say that I am sufficiently embarrassed. If this were a paper journal I would have impulsively ripped out and burned those pages (at least that's what precedent would suggest). But, I will grin and bear it.

It's pretty great to see how much things have changed in a single year. A year ago, I was complaining about a 5-minute mini lesson that I would have to give in front of 12 "students". Now, I have 8 hours of that every. single. day. And in front of 20 bipolaresque hooligans.

It's also nice to see how my life hasn't changed. I still cannot sit down and do work without a little bit of procrastination. Seriously. I need help. And I'm still pretty fond of:


...this guy.

Anyway, that guy just came into remind me that I have to figure out and record 20 report cards for tomorrow (of which I have not officially graded a single thing -- all year) and that I should procrastinate no further. Boo.

P.S. Happy Real Birthday to Scott: the best little brother I never had.