TX is a sauna!

Geez! I swear I couldn't breathe down there. The second my plane landed the windows immediately fogged up. The pilot said it was a cool 70 degrees... but damn it al to hell, it felt like 100. The air is just so thick, I wasn't expecting it. It was like being hit w/ a hot damp sock right in the grill. Ouch!

So I just got back from visiting one of my bestest friends, Rachel (also known as G) in the Rio Grande Valley. As I have said before, I went to visit her and speak in her 9th grade English classrooms. It now must be said, any thought or even slight inclination to be a teacher has been shot, dis-membered, and buried deep beneath the earth! I give her and all you other teachers out there SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much respect. There is no way I would have been able to survive that day after day... and I had another adult in the room.

Some of her classes were well behaved, but there were a few that just wouldn't shut up. I know every school has a random trouble maker in each class, but imagine 3 entire classes FULL of these kids? I wanted to swear... but I couldn't think of the words in Spanish. O-well. Rachel, if you are reading... I love you have will think of you every time I think my job sucks.

On another note, it was so weird seeing a friend at their real job. I mean, I was sitting there listening to her talk... and actually being a teacher... and thinking "who the hell let us be in charge of a classroom???" It is such an odd feeling to be the ADULTS. Damn, I'm still at the kid table for Thanksgiving... I still feel like I am in 8th grade thinking about what I want to be when I grow up, then I hear myself talking in meetings w/ clients and executives in the company, advising them on how we should proceed and I'm amazed.

I really AM grown up... who knew? ;-)