General Update

Well, it has been a relaxing week so far while home for the Easter holiday.  I haven’t seen my students since Friday and still have two more solid days of no school.  That being said, I don’t especially want to go back on Monday.  I’d rather have year-round school with longer breaks spread throughout the year.  The prospect of only having a single day off between now and June 20th is not appealing.

Today was rather exciting, albeit a bit stressful.  After getting lost in West Orange, I finally arrived at my destination and took the GRE exam.  While I won’t know my final score for 2-3 weeks, I was able to view my Verbal and Quantitative scores while at the testing center.  My verbal was right where it should be given my previous testing history, and while my math is a bit lower than I would like, it is also in an acceptable range.  I think that I’ll invest some more time in studying my math and schedule to take the test again in April or May.  I’ve submitted my scores to Rutgers Newark for consideration.  My hope is to start graduate school there in September.  I really miss being in a classroom.

In the past day I’ve also gotten a bike.  This is the first bike I’ve owned since middle school, when my old, but trusty bike (formerly belonging to my mother) was stolen out of it’s home in our next-door neighbor’s garage.  My family never bought me another bike, and now that I’m on my own, living in a small town with lots of the places I need to go (bank, drug store, etc.,) nearby, a bike seemed like the way to go.  It fits comfortably in the apartment by its very nature as a folding bike – a Dahon to be exact.  Eric is jealous of me, as I’ve essentially bought the bike he has wanted for a number of years.  After taking it out for a lengthy spin yesterday my rear is a bit sore, but it was worth it.  It amazes me how riding a bike seems to become part of us.  Neither Eric nor I has ridden a bike in years, yet once the chain relaxed itself, neither of us had any problem.

Finally, my last bid to help our economy by spending my hard-earned money was a splurge on first mezzanine seats to see Eddie Izzard at Raido City in June.  I first discovered Eddie’s comedy while hanging around with my off-color crowd from high school.  Since then, I’ve enjoyed his comedy through DVDs and CDs, but never thinking that I would see him live.  Fast forward to my weekly Ticketmaster promo e-mail, and who’s name is at the bottom of the page, but my favorite comedian’s.  $150 dollars poorer, but worth every penny, the tickets are now sitting on my desk until the distant day of June 29th when I can actually use them.  I can’t wait to see him sell out Radio City.  It’s been done before, and I’m sure it will be again.

Well, not really much else going on.  I’ll be down at Eric’s parent’s house for most of Easter, although I’ve not yet decided how exactly I’ll get out of attending Easter mass.  (It’s none too attractive to see me developing a twitch 30 seconds into the priest’s homily.)  The very real excuse of needing to get my paperwork ready for the next day may prevail.  For now, though, I think I’m going to stretch out on the sofa and be a lazy bum.  Test taking is an exhausting thing.