Land of Lakes and Volcanoes

Thursday and yesterday I rescued a couple of baby opossums. I found them Thursday night on the walkway in front of my house, wrapped them up and they made it through the night, so yesterday I drove to Carolina Wildlife Care out in Irmo and they are now taking care of them. This picture makes them look kind of evil and blurry, which is unfortunate, since they were actually quite cute. A few interesting points about this story: 1. Yesterday was Friday, and CWC is in Irmo, which meant that I had to brave malfunction junction at 5PM on Friday. Dumb, dumb, dumb. 2. If I was at home, out in the middle of nowhere, I would never have rescued baby opossums b/c things die all the time out there. It's just nature, but there was something about seeing them here in town. Letting them die just seemed wrong somehow. It's interesting how much difference context makes.

I had a great teaching day yesterday. One of those days when I actually miss being a high school teacher. I have good teaching days often, but they have to be pretty damn good to make teaching high school seem all rosy again. A little background is required. I loved some things about teaching high school. My interactions with the students were frustrating every day because you always want to do more - you want to somehow convince each one of them (even the ones you don't like b/c sometimes that happens) that you care about what happens to them and that you really do have their best interests at heart. Some days I felt like I really made that connection with students and those days were the best. And the surprising thing to me was what made me feel that way, that I had connected. It could be a student with a problem who felt comfortable enough to confide in me. This made me feel like I won the freakin' Olympics, but it's not something that happened every day.

Ha! Courtesy of GraphJam.

I have a sudden hankering to watch Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail. I haven't posted in forever, which is too bad, but I've been busy, ya know? I'm on Week 4 of my jogging program, and this is the first week when my jogging times have exceeded my resting times between jogs. I never thought I would like it, but if I know it's a running day, I feel antsy until I run and I feel so much better after that. Maybe I've been taken over by the pod people. I've also fallen behind on my reading, both of books and blogs, so it's not even like I have anything interesting to say. I have a few observations however. 1. I'm helping with the graph uploads for 102 this week, and some TAs put up with a lot more crap / rudeness than I ever would. Maybe it's b/c I was a high school teacher, but the way some of these people talk to their TAs, nuh uh child. I think not. 2. The weather is awesome. It's finally warming up and I'm digging that. I al

I haven't posted as much as I like to recently because things have just been soooo crazy, so a quick update. I joined Ravelry recently, to keep track of my projects and look at others. There are so many ideas and projects I want to try! My user name is Domaknitrix if you want to look me up. Spring break is next week and I am so excited!!, as it is a chance to get caught up on work stuff, plan my next Biology 110 unit, write some blog posts (look for backlogged book reviews), and maybe make it down to the beach for a couple days. My family has formed a team to participate in the Walk to Defeat ALS , and you can support our team in general here , or you can contribute to my specific goal here . It's a 5K walk at Saluda Shoals on April 25th, if anyone wants to join the team. The more the merrier, and it's for a good cause. I'll probably blog more about this next week. This has also prompted me to do the following: I am jogging, like actually moving at a pace faster