meisa's lagoon

i love having a blog. i feel a responsibility towards my blog, and i have been neglecting it so much. not for lack of action in my life, but more for lack of time and confusion about what to write. you see, i have now entered the realm of the working world. and i'm still in that adjustment period (at least i hope it is just an adjustment period) where work is pretty much my life. not that i spend all my time here. i do spend a lot of time here, but that isn't it. it's more that when i get home, i am so tired and yet already thinking about the next day of work. i'm hoping after this first trimester of school ends, i will be a little more adjusted and will have a life that occurs outside of work. plus i'm having a hard time knowing what to write. i spend my whole day with very internet savy high schoolers. and while i don't mind if they find and read my blog, i definitely don't want them to be reading anything about my life at school. but see, as i said before, these days, there isn't much life outside of school.
i just finished my first ever "back to school night". as a kid, i used to look forward to those a lot because it gave my parents the opportunity to meet the teachers i spent everyday with. now i was on the other side. verrrrry different. i spent a lot of the time wondering what the kids had said to their parents about me, as i used to report to my parents about my teachers. i wondered who came in with a preconceived notion that i was the world's most evil teacher, and who came in expecting to like me cause their kid liked me. thankfully, i received some "oh my son/daughter just loves chemistry" or "my son/daughter hated science before but they are loving it now." and if there were any parents prepared to dislike me, they didn't say anything. overall, it was nice to put parents faces to their children. i did some demos to wow them and answered some questions, and the evening went pretty smoothly. perhaps more smoothly than my actual classes. but controlling a room of 40 year olds is much easier than dealing with a room of very excitable 14 year olds.
i'm off to philadelphia for a wedding this weekend. then i'll be able to write about something that doesn't have to do with work. yay for weddings! yay for reunions of long lost college friends! yay cause my first back to school nite was good! (you see, my thoughts always come back to work these days)