this blog is a long time coming, and an even longer time coming if you consider promises of blogs from the past. the blogs i meant to create while adventuring in wyoming, rome, and albania have now found some sort of fruition in this blog--although the strange irony of finally creating a blog when i am in the least exciting situation of all of those may strike some as slightly discouraging, to me it is somehow appropriate. the difference between then and now, i suppose, is that my time in charlotte is not only an adventure, but actually a life. in rome, albania, and wyoming, i was constantly adventuring: although those places finally felt like home (usually right before i departed), they were not destined to be my life for two years. with everyone being far away, and with this being a completely new lifestyle in every which way, this blog is finally finally necessary. hopefully, i hope i hope i hope, it will include vacations across the sea and excavations and the like at some point in the near future. but for now, it will contain my remarks on a completely different sort of adventure: a semi-grown up life and the heavy and beautiful responsibility of educating little humans.
i am writing you, as the blog title says, from the bird couch. my beautiful roommate dana bought this couch before i even arrived in charlotte. my approval was requested via a phone call and then text messages containing pictures....her taste, i must say, is spot on. i have approximately one billion photos of this beautiful couch in its entirety (not sent from dana, but photos i took trying to create this blog!) and i will post them soon. this lovely piece of furniture sits in a yellow room, with three huge windows behind it. this couch, i will argue for now, is the heart of our home (physically speaking, at the very least, it is in the middle of our home.)
now. quick life updates, photos later.
1] i have a car. this is huge for those of you who know: a) my general dislike of driving and b) my lack of driving experience. i drive this little silver honda civic (1999, my friends) around town like an old pro. sometimes, when pulling into my driveway, or pulling out of my school's parking lot, i think to myself "well, wow. i'm just a little grown up, huh? driving myself around. it's so natural...." or, something like that. the radio is busted, so i am currently catching up on all of the pop hits (advantageous, in some ways, considering the age of my students). this busted radio has lead to my unnatural affinity for the song "deuces" by chris brown and various drake songs.
2] i live in a purple house in the arts district of my southern city. i have several videos to share, soon i will. i'd show you now, but i have to keep you hooked, you see.
3] i teach highschoolers. "highschoolers" is not actually a word, but i dig it so much that i'm using my poetic [blogging?] license and going ahead with it. i teach ninth grade english. my students are enlightening and bright and so so young.
4] i am in love with the fact that the mountains are so close to me, but i've only been once on a haphazard camping trip.
song that i cannot stop listening to this weekend, coming later on what should be a fine sunday evening.
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