on the fast track

alright already. i'll post.

fasting sucks. but gives good focus. no worries - it's just for a day or so as i refocus and pray and meditate and whatnot.

an update (the abbreviated version):
1. the computer gods are still holding my computer hostage in california.
2. unlike lizzie, i have not yet found a job teaching in or near my hometown. it looks like i'll be a sub next year, wandering, lost and lonely, from classroom to classroom in search of an english teacher to kill so that i can have his or her position.
3. due to the fact that i'm teaching summer school, i have yet to take a vacation. i will, however, be getting one bad-ass check at the end of the summer, and i will happily use said check to finance a trip to my favorite "city to visit" to see one of my favorite friend-sisters.
4. i'm working diligently to pave the way for a upcoming applications to several phd programs. cross your fingers and snap your garters in hopes that all of my smooth-talking does the trick. (can i tell you that i love the sense of irony in the fact that i'm stressing out about not having a job for next year and yet i'm trying to enter the next level of academia, where jobs are even harder to find?)
5. my summer-school students began blogging middle-ages-related journal-article reviews today. it's a funny, sad trip through the history of the english language. my favorite student quotes so far are:
"My article is talking about a man name Anglo-Saxon"
"This music the quartet whatever, Its all a bunch of bull. They don't have music as interesting as we have today. But I bet back then they didn't have cursing and I'm gonna shoot this and blow this and fxxx this and fxxx that."
"This dance has cause malfunctions in the the brain but people still havn't found it in them to stop it."
"I feel that if the nobles wanted rings form King Hrothgar he should have gave it to them."

god bless 'em.