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Sep. 9th, 2009
Random update, because I'm feeling verbose tonight.
Yes, verbose is a real word. Look it up. It means talkative. I dated an English teacher at the school for a month or so, my vocabulary almost doubled over that month.
School's back in session. Which is good, because this summer was boring as hell. Seriously, I was ready to tear my hair out by the time school started. Working in a high school is fairly strange sometimes. It's not like when you attended school, and everyone around you grew up with you. Now you're there, year after year, and you watch the transformations that these kids go through. I see kids come in as timid little freshman who don't know anybody, and then by the time they graduate as seniors, they've got this huge group of friends, and they're not too shy to tell you exactly what they think of you. It's still weird for me, but I'm slowly starting to get used to that idea.
Though, working in a school full of 14 - 18 year olds definitely makes me feel old. Kids are doing shit nowadays that I never would have even dreamed of, back when I was a teenager. But maybe that's just me, I don't know. I definitely can't wait for baseball season to start again, so that I'll have that coaching stuff to do. It's so much fun, I love coaching baseball. After my injury all those years ago, I kind of came to terms with the fact that I wouldn't be able to focus on that sport anymore. But then, after I got the job teaching gym at the high school, and they approached me about coaching baseball since the old coach was retiring ... I jumped at the chance. I didn't think I'd be able to do it anymore. But I gotta admit, I love it. I'm not gonna lie, I thought coaching would suck. You know what they say ... "People who can't do, coach." But I love it.
I don't know why I felt the need to divulge all of that. I think it's because I've had a few beers tonight. Who knows.
School's back in session. Which is good, because this summer was boring as hell. Seriously, I was ready to tear my hair out by the time school started. Working in a high school is fairly strange sometimes. It's not like when you attended school, and everyone around you grew up with you. Now you're there, year after year, and you watch the transformations that these kids go through. I see kids come in as timid little freshman who don't know anybody, and then by the time they graduate as seniors, they've got this huge group of friends, and they're not too shy to tell you exactly what they think of you. It's still weird for me, but I'm slowly starting to get used to that idea.
Though, working in a school full of 14 - 18 year olds definitely makes me feel old. Kids are doing shit nowadays that I never would have even dreamed of, back when I was a teenager. But maybe that's just me, I don't know. I definitely can't wait for baseball season to start again, so that I'll have that coaching stuff to do. It's so much fun, I love coaching baseball. After my injury all those years ago, I kind of came to terms with the fact that I wouldn't be able to focus on that sport anymore. But then, after I got the job teaching gym at the high school, and they approached me about coaching baseball since the old coach was retiring ... I jumped at the chance. I didn't think I'd be able to do it anymore. But I gotta admit, I love it. I'm not gonna lie, I thought coaching would suck. You know what they say ... "People who can't do, coach." But I love it.
I don't know why I felt the need to divulge all of that. I think it's because I've had a few beers tonight. Who knows.
