fall...ish

apparently i am a seasonal blog writer...
thus, a new season has started in my life and it's not only climate related. i have started my first "true" teaching job (i say that only because being a long-term sub, while many of the responsibilities are the same, is still less pressure/long-term responsibility than being in a stable, year-long position). i think i love it. i think i'm still in the getting used to it phase. however, based on the way the first two weeks have gone, they are just going to get better. the first one was difficult, this last one was much better. there are just so many things you have to learn, being a teacher (ironic...yet in a way, also makes sense, no?). things related to the kids, dynamics of classes (that can fluctuate from one class to another so polarly), and then there's the whole administrative side, meetings, duties, paperwork, etc. it's a lot to get a groove into. but teaching is infinitely unique in its "never the same day twice" construction and of course, the feeling that you've truly changed somebody's life just because you were interested in who they were. that's mainly why i do it. also, summers off. just sayin. built in vacation time.
this past weekend, i did something many of my fellow OU alumni might scowl at me for. i kind of became, in an honorary sense, a Texas Aggie. i got to go to first yell and see Jeff Dunham perform (the ventriloquist...Achmed the dead terrorist...good stuff) and then i got to go to Midnight Yell, where the yell leaders lead a practice of all the yells the Aggies do at games. it's basically a big pep rally, except better, because people actually go and it actually does pep you up!
the game itself was an adventure. our seats were great, almost the middle of the field at the back of the second deck. however, A&M has a little known "bat sanctuary" up there were the third deck hangs over about 10 feet of the second deck...right above our heads. when the game started and things started getting loud, we were caught in the middle of a serious bat exodus, and while kind of cool, it was also kind of eerie to have spastic bats flying mere centimeters over your head. as far as football was concerned, the Aggies did pretty great, considering their recent years of lack-luster seasons (barring the T.U. games of course)and they beat UNM soundly, 41 to something lesser than that. quite lesser, i believe. it was very exciting and i will say that they have some of the most dedicated, energetic (if not the most) student fans in college football. the intensity never changes from start to finish. and that is a feat, one that i cannot claim from my time at Owen Field.
Yes, love will make you do crazy things, like partially give up your own allegiance to your alma mater (though i did follow the OU game on my phone pretty hecticly as it was winding down) and claim devotion for a "conference rival". but i say, it was bound to happen at some point what with my grandfather having graduated from there in 1938 and my brother going down there for school this year. i just happened to find another very good reason first- my boyfriend.
and there ya have it folks.