Stick and Move, Stick and Move

What originally was intended to be a few month stay at the parents house, back in August of 2007, turned into two full years. I moved up to North Bothell / South Mill Creek area yesterday to live with a friend from my teaching program. The two years with my parents went by incredibly fast, and I figure time will only speed up the older I get:



(you can ignore the video, but this version of "Landslide" is amazing)

I can't thank my parents enough for allowing me to live rent-free for the past two years. The teaching program would not have been possible, or at least I would be up to my neck in debt. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!

I'm excited to be living "on my own" again, but the perks of living with the rents' will be hard to give up (hot tub, free, pool close by, in Seattle). I'm closer to some friends and further away from others now that I'm up in Bothell. I also think there are more schools around this area, at least more school districts, but on the downside I don't have any experience working around here, and the connections that come with work experience.

My plan for the next few weeks is to sell myself as a math tutor to the schools in the area and volunteer as a math tutor to get the ball rolling. Hopefully a subbing job will fall my way if I have an active presence in multiple schools.

In weekly update news, I camped at Baker Lake last week, and attended a Mariner's game on Saturday night in some pretty nice seats:

Stay Tuned...

Not enough time to write this out in detail, but here is a laundry list of going-ons that will be in my next post:

-Flat tire on motorcycle while going 70mph
-First motorcycle crash
-Sasquatch
-Lake Tapps
-Teaching

Mandatory Update

Well, it has been over a week, and I'm still sick. It is sort of a quasi-sickness, the one I feel bad skipping out on school for, but if someone else had my symptoms at school, I wouldn't want to sit next to them.

The book club meeting went great. The food was unexpected and good, and it turns out I know one of the guys through pickup frisbee. We talked a lot about the book, and through luck of the draw I get to pick the next book, which I think will be "Teacher Man" by Frank McCourt, who also wrote Angela's Ashes.

I've been playing way too much WoW lately, but I've been having a blast. I intend to lay off the WoW a bit this weekend and get some school applications done. We shall see!