I’ve been home all week.  I wanted to sub today very badly but there seems to be only the crappiest of choices available today.  I suppose I’m not that desperate to work.  You only have to sub for about 2 weeks straight to become quite the expert on the district.  I know which schools, grades, and administrations to avoid.  I also know that special ed. assistant usually means you’ll actually just be sitting in a chair in the back of a classroom all day doing nothing….literally.  I refuse to take special ed. jobs anymore for that reason.  I wouldn’t mind if I knew that I was actually going to work with some kids, but most of the time it’s inclusion teachers.  I guess they don’t have a category for that so they just lump it in under special ed.  I’ll be glad when I get my certification if for no other reason than I’ll get a better pick of jobs or at least I’ll be on the top rung for the normal classes.  I’ll also make more for subbing.  However, I really want subbing to be a temporary job on my way to the big picture.  I have one lesson left!  I am simply waiting on the enrollment key to begin.  It will be given to me during a video conference which is something new but cool.  There is only one a week so unfortunately I’ll have to wait on that to move on.  Then it will be study, study, study for the big test which I hope to take ASAP.  I’m very nervous.  I don’t like to think about it too much because I’ll get little anxiety attacks.  Breathe…breathe…

Wednesday:

Wednesday night was a Kung Fu night.  Bryan and I both went to the lower belt class.  I did fluidity (my first time in a hell of a long time) before class so when Tommy said we were doing bag work I was already exhausted.  I had also done some bag work at home between fluidity and leaving for class – not much but enough to make bag work in class that much more exhausting.

We went out with some of the gang to eat after class.  That was a lot of fun!  I especially enjoyed the rock, paper, scissors game done round robin style.  What better way to decide who gets the last piece?  I only wish I had recorded it.  😀

Thursday:

Thursday night I went to TKD.  I’m competing in the sparring tournament on Saturday morning.  We’ve been drilling sparring all week.  It’s been fun, but I’ll be glad when we return to some form time next week.  The annual regional tournament is coming up in March so we’ll have to start drilling both pretty hard until then, but I’m sure the focus will be more on forms.  That’s awesome because I need a lot of help with mine.  I worked on it before class even though I knew we wouldn’t do them in class.  I have been trying to work on my forms everyday.  Even if I can’t do them all, I try to work on as many as possible.  It definitely helps for numerous reasons.

Last night’s class had a moment that was a big deal for me.  There’s this one kid that I hated sparring when I was just beginning.  Even though he’s a black belt, he has no control what so ever.  I can’t tell you how many bruises this kid gave me even where I had pads on.  He was just like a tornado of fists and kicks.  I dreaded being paired up with him.  However, last night we matched up for the first time in quite a while.  And…he didn’t kick my ass.  In fact, he got very few things in.  I’m getting there…slowly but surely.  And I think its been Kung Fu and Tai Chi that have put me where I am.  I have made the most advancements in those classes than any other.  Let’s just hope it all pays off tomorrow morning though point sparring shouldn’t be much of a marker of my skill level.

Friday (today):

There’s isn’t much to report.  I’ll have to find ways to keep myself busy at home today.  That shouldn’t be hard since there is sooo much cleaning to be done since Bryan’s grandparents arrive tomorrow afternoon.  The guest bedroom is ready to go, and that’s the only room that is.  I skipped conditioning class this morning so I wouldn’t have to worry about picking my legs up tomorrow.  I’ll have to find some other workout – most likely fluidity.  I think I’ll try the advanced workout.  :O