YES, I am still alive (aka three-year-olds, fish tanks, and finals)

Ok, I am back by popular demand of the masses (like, of Kate, who is probably the only person who consistently reads this thing!). This has been a crazy week, being my first full week of lead teaching at the school. And, between all of that, I'm finishing up finals for this semester of grad school and all the papers related to that. Bad news is, come May 12 that all starts over again. Good news is that May 5-10 I get to go back home and see Kate and I also got some grant money for the summer term.

And on a related note, I'm looking really forward to going home. I haven't been in...oh, three years? Something like that. And I'm not crazy; I know that some things will have changed and that the visit is a short one...

...but heck, Memphis is still home and it's where the one person I consider as a true friend is. I seem to have alot of acquaintances here in Jax, but nobody I can just sit and talk with or sing "We are the Champions" in the car at church with everyone wondering just what the hey is going on. No coffee shop sessions with Zero Ohms playing "Yesterday" in the background...over, and over, and over again. No re-writing of perfectly good songs (Ok, maybe "I, I, I, want you to know..." was never a good song anyway!)

Things just aren't the same here in Jax. And even the (extended) family I moved here to be with aren't as close as I would have thought. But the saying goes that "a friend sticketh closer than a brother." And that's the honest truth.

I will try to post again at least once this weekend, and hopefully next week's posting will be more regular. Tomorrow I'm headed for Tallahassee (Tally!) to see the Seminoles play there team scrimage...GO NOLES! I'll check in with you all after I get back...

...have a nice weekend peeps, and for those of you who are there, enjoy Memphis, and I'll see ya soon.