afterschool

my friend maddie visited afterschool today! it was great. we took some cups of liquid that we'd put in the freezer over the weekend and watched them melt on the sidewalk. very scientific.

as I was walking out I sat on a bench by the front door and checked my phone and the principal of the school walked out of his office and talked to me for a little bit. He asked if I was in school still and I told him I'd graduated and was licensed to teach secondary english, he smiled when I said english. I told him I thought I wanted to do that until I started working with k-5 and realized how much better it was for me. He said I should look into teaching middle school.

I said I really enjoy afterschool and being able to move around and let the kids be kids and then he just kinda looked at me and I said, "but yeah, there is no money in it." and he laughed and agreed and I said, well I live with roommates and eat a lot of pasta and beans and rice and he laughed again and told me I have a good way with kids. so that was cool.

running in the heat tired

is the best kind of tired

I've started running workouts after work and they feel really really good. 

glavy

what's one thing I want to remember about today?

today I got two kids to section off rectangles of grass outside the school and complete to see who could cut the grass best with scissors. 

I already knew this about myself but I gu

ess it's still true that I cry pretty easily. Certain things. Like really specific things.

Like one time my 8th grade history teacher played the song Waltzing Matilda on his guitar in class and I started to tear up.

Or last summer a counselor was telling me about how one of his campers told him that at home he has anger management issues but that the camper was working really hard to not do that at camp so he could make friends.

Or this past weekend the instructor told us this story about how this woman was rock climbing and hit her head and was concussed and also dangling off the side of a cliff and this guy climbed down to comfort her and later she said that's all she remembered about the experience.

it got to me. I don't think it's a bad thing. Just really beautiful stuff gets to you sometimes when you are also low blood sugar.