Xanga caved and decided to start charging everyone for blogging space so I've been forced to move somewhere else as seriously, who pays for blog space? Anyway, I'm disappointed because now I have all of those blog posts since 2006 saved in html format on my laptop where they'll never be read again, much like all the evidence of my love of washed up punk bands and long walks on the beach. If you got that joke, congratulations on being Jon deHaan. No, I won't explain it to the rest of you.
Anyway, my stream of consciousness thoughts on life have now moved over here to blogger after searching for somewhere where I could still have the dexter21 moniker, but alas, none could be found. The guy who's currently using it here on blogger is an Indonesian(?) guy who made eight blog posts last August. Yeah, pretty sure I'll deserve it more in about a month.
I'm not going to make a big deal of switching blogs because this isn't some big new opportunity for a new start. I'll just keep on going from where I left off and you're all screwed for context. Sorry. So here we go. Another new semester has started out here in Anderson and I'm excited for my classes. I'm thrilled to be teaching higher level stuff with linear and diff eq. I just need to make sure the diff eq guys don't realize I'm basically keeping just a couple classes ahead of them since I don't remember half the techniques that I'll be teaching. Also, I'm teaching two sections of Finite again, which doesn't thrill me, but at least it doesn't require much, if any, prep work.
Beside that though, I've been going through an interesting range of emotions lately. While new classes starting is exciting, there have been some frustrating/disappointing experiences from the summer as well, mostly resulting from my utter lack of discipline both physically and spiritually. How fast my mood turns around may correlate directly with how quickly I can recover that discipline. The good news is it looks like I'm hopefully getting back on track. Gallivanting all over for pretty much all of August didn't really help either as now I miss that freedom just to get out and go wherever my heart pleases. On the drive home tonight, I decided the thing I most wanted right now was to chase the simple beauty of sunsets covering mountains which is an awesome thing to do and thoroughly impossible in central Indiana.
Okay, one last thing about Xanga. I do miss their "What are you listening to?" feature since I've decided to keep the last couple months pattern of using song lyrics as titles. For the all of you that don't recognize this post's lyric, it comes from the Offspring's Kick Him While He's Down off of Ignition. Check out that album. You're welcome.
More to come soon, I promise.
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