Midweek Update, and a request...

So, things are going really well. The new house is awesome, school is fantastic, Bibi is great, and things are good in general.

I just finished up "Thank You for Smoking". Really good book. Very funny. I wanna see the movie now.

I took up "Assassins of Memory" again. It's about people who reject the idea of the Holocaust. It's very interesting, but really sad. Scary, too.

The request: Jim, you mentioned that I can post by sending an e-mail...can you send me an e-mail so that I can learn how to do that? Thanks!!!

Tommy

Hey ya'll. Just a quick note. Bibi and I moved me into the new house...and, it's awesome!!! I got out my record player, which I haven't had out for a while, and that was awesome. I put on The Who's "Baba O'Reilly", which, as my avid readers know, is my favorite. School's good, everything's great. My bachelor party is coming up, and I'm excited.

Looking forward to this weekend. Great band on Friday night, and I'm going home for the day Sunday. Good times.

Later...

Tommy

Update

So, went to the doctor today. My REAL doctor. Found out this morning that the guy I went to at the ER has almost killed three people by misdiagnosing, and thought to myself..."hey! Self, you should get to the doctor!" So, I did.

The real doctor told me that in all liklihood (sp?!) I pulled/strained/twisted something before the pain set in, and wouldn't have felt the effects until long after, when the muscles had a chance to tighten up. So, there ya go.

Oh! Bibi and I have REALLY exciting news!!! WE have someone to marry us now!!!! Dr. Dereck Dashke, of Truman State University has been ordained, and he will be officiating at the ceremony. It's awesome...he's a good friend of ours, his step-son was in my class last year, he goes to karaoke every week, and I was the photographer at HIS wedding, last summer! (It's a small world after....anyway.)

So, that'll be good.

This weekend was fun, and now Bibi and I are realizing that we are absolutly SLAMMED between now and the wedding. Every single weekend from here on out has multiple goings-on, and the weeks are just as busy. We are currently moving me into our new house, and it's EXCITING!!!! (c;

All right people...thanks for reading, and for what will MAYBE be the last time...
Life soundtracks, anyone? (c;

Tommy

pain in the....back....

So, I woke up today, feeling pretty damn good. My back felt great, and I felt fine. I was going to go sans coffee today, in order to kind of facilitate cleaning out my system. Everything was going fine...head was good, class was good, everything aces...until after lunch...just shortly after lunch.

Up until then, I have to admit my pain, on a scale of 1-10 had been at most a 5. I thought it was bad, but in retrospect, given what I know now about pain, it was AT MOST a 5. We were playing a spelling game after lunch, and I started having this intense stabbing sensations in my back...and, within five minutes, I was almost on the floor...I swear, I held the tears back until I went out in the hall. (Then they flowed like wine.) I got a sub, Bibi picked me up, and we took me to the hospital. There I had multiple tests done, x-rays, etc, all so that the doctor could tell me:

I have one leg that is longer than the other one. This, in turn, has set my spine off kilter from my pelvis, which in turn led to me crying like a little girl.

However, they gave me some kind of pain medicine that is one step down from morphine, so I feel fine now. (c; (mmm....happy tommy....)

Oh, and my new addiction "Deal or No Deal" was good tonight.

That's all.

Oh, and Bibi and I are going to KC this weekend for her sister's birthday, and some wedding stuff. It'll be good to get out of town for a bit, and I don't have school Friday, so that'll make the weekend extra sweet.

All right, more later...

Tommy

boo

So, I was going to post this morning before school started, but came to find out that my employer has blocked blogger from the school web. So....no more blogging for tommy, 'cept at Bibi's house. (I love you Bibi!!)

Today was decent....I woke up yesterday with this unbelievably bad back pain...it felt like someone was stabbing me repeatedly in the back. Didn't think anything of it...just though maybe I slept on it wrong. However, my overactive imagination has turned it into kidney stones, kidney infection, or perhaps I woke up in a tub full of ice, and there is a slit in my back, and I don't remember....

Finished New Religious Movements. It was REALLY good. Very enjoyable read, and very readable, at that. Plus, I have it on good authority, that Bibi and I might be getting the author to officiate at our wedding! (c'

I'm reading a book I picked up from a good friend of mine who teaches high school. It's called Assassins of Memory, and it's about people who deny the holocaust. Interesting so far.

All right! More later!

Thanks for stopping by!

a quick note...

Here is a link to where Bibi and I will be spending our first week of wedded bliss...

http://www.lacabanaaruba.com/Images/HighResort.jpg

How was your weekend?

Thanks for stopping by...

Tommy

struggling...

this week has been really hard; really, really hard. It's had some massive ups, and some fairly substantial downs.

I'm struggling with the concept of personal responsibility. Specifically, how I'm going to emphasize this unbelievably importnat concept to my students. There seems to me to be a complete and total lack of this value/quality/characterstic in my (some of my) students..and it's really frustrating. I can't really say anything more than that, but suffice it to say, I'm cooking up some lessons on accountability. Any suggestions will be duly noted and utilized.

On the up end of the week, Bibi and I are officially going on a honeymoon, and we're ecstatic! We're going to Aruba, and we bought our plane tickets earlier this week. (Thanks Bibi!)

I'm reading New Religious Movements still, and it's fascinating. I especially enjoyed the chapters on Rastafarians, and the Family Movement. Very intriguing. Curious theological ideologies. I found the idiosyncratic language used by Rastafarians quite inspiring, in all honesty. I've heard the whole Jamaican "I and I" phrase before, but I did not understand that it symbolizes the unity in the Rastafarian community, in that all people are connected, and when you say "I and I" for the pronoun "we" you are signifying the interconnectedness of the group. Really cool.

Thanks for reading...

Tommy

Tuesday

So, I voted today.

Voting always--and, I'm honestly not being sarcastic here--fills me with a huge sense of pride and accomplishment. I turned 18 the summer before my senior year in high school, and was able to vote in the 96 election for president. It was really cool to be able to vote before all of my friends, and it really showed me how awesome a responsibility--and priviledge!!!-- it is to be able to vote. Every time I vote, it really makes me feel good, and I love talking politics--in recent years I've become more interested in what other people have to say as opposed to telling people what I think--and today was no exception. Good times...good times.

Oh, and New Religious Movements is going really well. It's interesting reading about this groups from their perspectives...instead of just hearing about it from an outsider explaining what the religion believes, you know? So, if anyone wants to read it, let me know!

Thanks for reading...
Tommy

Interesting fact...

This wednesday, at 1:02 and 3 seconds, the official date and time will be...


01:02:03 04/05/06.

Pretty cool isn't it?

That's all....reading a really good book called New Religious Movements about...well, new religious movements...VERY interesting stuff...I'm finding out things I really didn't know...I'd recommend it. (Plus, a couple of friends of mine wrote it!!! (c; )

Have a great Monday!

Thanks for reading...
Tommy