Ch-Ch-Changes

          I believe it was the 1980’s philosopher Bueller who said “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” Life here at the Cat Ranch/Casa del Nerd has being moving apace, as it does. The school year finishes up in about two weeks for the three C’s, with C1 officially becoming a high school freshman, whilst C2 & C3 move up to grades 4 & 3 respectively.

Speaking of C1, he had his 8^th Grade dance, semi-formal, last week. He went with a girl he’s known since Kindergarten, which is nice. Then a bunch of them hung out at a friend’s house until midnight-ish. Where apparently he made plans with a different girl to go to the movies (whilst still trying to reschedule a movie date with someone else). I’m not sure if I’m ready for my 14 year old to become a Romeo, but neither do I want him to move comfortably into the friend zone. I was mayor of the Friend Zone for a number of years, and while I made and continue to have some great friends, at the time it was ridiculously frustrating. All that said, I’ll boast for a moment here how he looked FANTASTIC dressed in his new suit for the dance. The kid’s got some good material to work with, I’ll grant him that!

          C2 and C3 are just looking forward to the summer. C3 is continuing with her martial arts class, getting her yellow belt next Monday, while C2 just auditioned (as did C1) for the township’s summer musical. Makes this former theater geek proud, it does. They’ll be here for a week later in the summer, where if we don’t actually take a full vacation somewhere (some years we do, some we don’t) we’ll hopefully do one or two day trips. C3 has her birthday during that week, so we’ll be celebrating that as well.

          Other changes going on here? I mentioned a while back about a new job I was in and awaiting a greater prize this summer. That prize is in hand and I could not be more thrilled. I was accepted into a program offering an alternate path to teacher certification. My undergrad is in communications, and my (still incomplete) graduate work is in English. Becoming a teacher is something I’ve wanted to do for a while now, but didn’t know if I had it in me. With the incredible support from The Wif ™, I’m now in this program and will hopefully be in a high school teaching English this Fall.  There’s plenty of work to get through first, but I think I can do it. On a related note, the low-paying retail job I mentioned before is now a thing of the past (as of yesterday). With this school program and its work taking up most of my time, it just wouldn’t be feasible to try and keep working at a job that barely scheduled me anyway, and when it did, those hours would conflict with my teacher training schedule. It was an OK job, but I never felt that I warmed up to my co-workers or they to me.  That could simply be insecurity on my part (most likely) but I simply wasn’t enjoying it as I had a similar job in the past. Parts of it I’ll miss, but the Wif ™ is happy to have her at-home husband back. If nothing else, I can do the grocery shopping – she hates doing it LOL.

          Doctor Who fandom wise? Not too much going on. Waiting for the new season to start this fall, and I’m enjoying the filming pictures I see online.  Capaldi is really starting to channel his inner Pertwee, isn’t he? I have my tickets booked for Long Island Who 3 in November. This will be the first year I go by myself, so it’s going to be strange. If anyone out there is also going, please let me know – I’d love to meet up!! I’m considering also going to (Re)Generation Who 2 in Maryland next March, but not sure yet.  Anybody who went last year – suggestions? Opinions? I’ve got a Time Stream on The Romans ready to post within the next day or so, but I wanted to get back to a general life update before things started moving way too fast and I began to miss things that are truly important. Be well all. Save Ferris!