Stranger than Fiction...

I believe Stranger than Fiction is officially my favorite movie.

I also believe this man is genius. I want to create the best piece of writing for him telling him how amazing he is as a teacher and how much I appreciated and continue to appreciate his class I took. And if he enjoyed Stranger than Fiction as much as I did as it references the author of my favorite book from his class, Italo Calvino.

It's just one of those good feeling days whenever I watch that movie. It's framing is amazing! (the class I took was "Framed Narratives")

Oh well. I must try to calm myself enough to go to bed now. :)

Roll with It...

It's a bit tiring and a whole lot frustrating to not know what's going to happen next in my life. The school year ends on Friday for me. I've got an interview with a temp agency on Friday as well. My students have been reviewing Ancient China in preparation for the test. I think it's a paragraph about Confucius that had a good point about how to live life: Be like water and just flow with everything around you. I think this is how I am some of the time, but often I just fight against some things because it'll feel like I went with the flow for too long and ignored things that just shouldn't have been ignored.

Lately I feel like I'm going against the flow getting frustrated about trying to find housing for fall and trying to dig into the job search process. In my mind I just want to start Monday. Teaching didn't exactly leave me living comfortable with more than a month saved up in revenue. My bank account seems lower than it's been in a long time (still it's a good amount higher than what I used to maintain).

I guess the main thing is I need to feel successful. I want an actual career where the things I do count towards the future of something larger. I guess that's kind of what I'm seeing as my definition of success. We'll see how it pans out.