It is once again time for the excrutiatingly painful lead up to the Pines condos HOA meetings that I am in charge of as secretary for the HOA. Owners calling and complaining when they have done squat. Owners calling and saying that we can't raise our fees, yet wanting repairs done (which eat up the fees we don't have) so that people will want to rent their condos. Owners making long lists of things that need to be done and they have no desire to do any of it. Agony.

My friend let me know about this and I had to post it. I am a huge fan of all the noise of Irish dancing-I even took an Irish dance class at BYU, but I could never stand Michael Flatley, aka Lord of the Dance. In honor of him... (so well deserved):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LsQ5gcf_fo#t=0m25s

(I can't embed it.)

Work has continued going alright. I have mostly just answered student emails so far. Grading begins next week.
I am going to Cedar City again tomorrow. Lisa and I are going to see Pericles. It is my favorite Shakespeare and no one ever does it. It actually has a lot of plan of salvation/temple imagry in it. I might have to a good quote or two and pass them on when we get back.

Well it was a rough first week trying to get in the groove of doing the class, but things are looking much better today.

In honor of the fact that I am now teaching an English class (unfortunately not a literature one), I decided to post this in case anyone hasn't seen it yet: Jane Austen Fight Club (with yet another appropriate blog background change).

I chose this new background because it reminded me of this.

I was able to set up the "classroom" for one of my sections and they are still figuring out the other one.

I saw the eye doctor yesterday and for the first time-since I was born probably-my eyesight had not become worse. Wahoo.

I saw this on awkward family photos (see link on side of blog) and maybe because of all the weddings I've been to lately, this struck me as extraordinarily funny. Why are they in a tub? Who would do this?

After a few days of much needed alone time, I spent another fun weekend with my family.
I tried to set up my online "classroom," but they didn't have me set up right. I am nervous to start and hadn't heard anything from my mentor teacher, so I was getting a little panicked. He finally sent an email last night-the first one and it was to all of us-and said our classes needed to be set up yesterday. Nice. Well I still don't have access for one of the sections, but I guess I will work on the other one-if I can. Welcome to the world of work.