I got 5 hours in yesterday and actually felt pretty good after my legs got loose. I was going to go on a long ride and possible overnighter with that Marshal character but decided not to. Marshal...you gotta call my cell. I don't pay the land line any attention.

I did re-injure my back AGAIN yesterday (muscle pull that I seem to get quite often). I may go out and ride the Tour Divide course north from Hartsel today and see if I can meet up with John who looks to still be in Kremmling.

I'm on the super duper plan to get ready for the race and I needed to get in 3 hours today. I got in 4 hours even with the rain storms. I'm already ahead of schedule. I'm eating bratwurst tonight so that could mean 10 hours tomorrow.

Thank you

Huge, public thank you to my friend Dan for sending me a care package that I got yesterday that contained oodles and oodles of really nice clothing that was left over from his THF team last year. I will put it all to good use.

Interviews

I really like going to job interviews. Under most circumstances I interview well. However, I'm still disappointed at some things that I had to deal with this year and it's effecting how I feel about the quality of teacher that I am. I've had 3 interviews in the last 2 weeks. Personally, I thought the first one went really badly but I did get an offer out of it. I had another one a few days later and got an offer from that one too. Both are teaching positions and that's all I'll say about that right now. The last interview I had on Monday was for an administrative position where I would work for 3 surrounding school districts and I would be their Autism and Behavioral Consultant. Basically I would be the go to person to observe, document, and then implement a plan to deal with/change student behaviors (including social/communicative behaviors) that others can't come up with an explanation for or a plan of attack. It sounds pretty exciting and I think I'm ready for a new challenge but I'm not sure about the job. I should hear something about the consultant job tomorrow and then I'll make a decision. I should definitely know by this weekend where I am going to be working this fall. 2 years ago I made a promise to some 6th grade parents that I would be there for their children all through middle school. It truly saddens me that I may be leaving them in their final year. It frustrates me (and makes me angry) that, ultimately, the children are the ones that suffer. If I end up leaving my current school I will have to go to every one of my students' homes and tell them face to face. I owe them that much. Then I'll have to go pack up my room and move things and that'll take days. Something else to do other than ride.

Walmart was blowing out these pools for 10 bones and I thought Bodhi might like it so I got him one. Dharma thinks it's a giant water bowl. He wasn't sure what to think at first but he does like getting in there.



Need to be doing A LOT more of this or August is gonna be rough.

Super

I knew I was enrolled in a grad school course for this summer but apparently I read the syllabus wrong and all of a sudden I had a really bad feeling today while we were running errands down in Springs. I checked as soon as we got home and I've now missed 2.5 weeks of class and several assignments and discussion boards. I wrote the professor a letter explaining the situation and am waiting a response. I have no clue what's going to happen but I've been beating myself up now for about 4 hours. Part of me says that there's just been so much going on this summer with my doctor's visits, family stuff, and the stress I'm dealing with about work (hence all the interviews I've had recently) that I just overlooked it. Certainly, part of it is simply that I didn't look closely enough at the syllabus and I can admit that. I'm mad. I'm so close to graduating and this could be a major setback not to mention that this class costed about 3 grand. Heather's really thrilled with me. I might have to bivy up outside tonight. Or sleep in the van.