Futures!

So I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about my future. Today in particular was a day that I absolutely couldn’t stop thinking about it. This morning, I registered for my last semester of classes in Reno. I’ll be going through graduation in May. I have never felt more excited/nervous/scared/EXCITED for anything! After this, I might actually be living in the real world. A year from now, I will probably have found a job teaching somewhere, maybe. It’s weird to think that after all these years in college, I’ll actually be doing something with all this time I spent preparing for a job that didn’t seem to be a possibility until now. Until now, it didn’t feel real.

I am so excited to teach! I have been waiting for this for forever, it seems, and it’s getting closer and closer. It’s true that I have to survive finals and another semester of college, but still, if I actually make it through all of this in one piece, I will be a huge influence in the lives of many children. That’s a scary thought, actually. My friends and my parents (HI DAD!) know how silly I can be. I can’t imagine that any reasonable parent would want me influencing their children! Regardless of how crazy/ridiculous/insane I can be sometimes, I think that there’s a possibility that I might be a darn good teacher.

I just realized something! It’s been a while since I’ve had any serious back pains. That’s weird. Mostly it’s just my ankle and my knee that have been giving me a hard time. There are times when my lower back feels a little stiff but that’s really the extent of my discomfort there. Maybe the yoga is helping after all? Man, I feel like such a failure in that class sometimes. What with all my ailments, there isn’t a single pose that I can do completely perfectly. Whether my ankle feels too weak to balance on, or my knee has issues locking, there isn’t a time when I don’t feel semi-silly in that class. BUT what I can’t deny is that at 10:50 every Monday and Wednesday morning, I leave that class feeling a little more refreshed and prepared for the day than when I came in. So I guess that’s something.

Okay. So it’s late, and I just put Harry Potter on and I think it’s bedtime. GOOD NIGHT!