Monday will see the blog

Sorry everyone. I was out of town all weekend. I'll be doing this blog update on Monday evening.

*Flash forward to Monday*

OK sorry about that. The cool thing about updating a standing document is that if nobody read that note that I was out of town yesterday, it would be like you skipped the time between yesterday and today. If you don't actively read the blog Sunday night, then that note is completely unnecessary. I wonder how many readers I actually have...

Any for today's musings I have a few things. One, I think I've decided I don't like traveling. I love going to new places and having new experiences with the peace of mind that I will be returning home after a fixed time. What I don't like is the work it takes to get to the point of traveling. This means packing, remembering all the right things, trying to think of everything that could come up and whether I'm prepared for it, remembering that thing you forgot just after its too late to go back, the uncertainty of traffic, airplanes arrivals, transportation at your new destination, hotel bookings, unforeseen expenses, and simply the lack of comfort of being out of place that exists simultaneously with the joy of seeing somewhere new.

This comes up because in two days I leave for Ohio (no that's not code) to interview for assistantships at the graduate program for Higher Education and Student Affairs (HESA) at (the) Ohio State University. I have actually already been accepted into the school but this is for the jobs I'll be doing while there. This is actually more important to me than getting in because if I don't feel like I'm going somewhere with my career while in school, I don't particularly want to go back to school. I want the simultaneous career and education advancement and so I now travel to the midwest. May I remember all my interview clothes and accessories (like comb, gel, razor, ties, belt, etc.) and not freeze to death. I prefer warmer climates personally but we shall see. The love-hate relationship of traveling. Maybe the next blog will be more love heavy...

Brock hasn't gotten in trouble in a while so I haven't had as many entertaining stories to tell. He still tries to grow new organisms in our sink by leaving bowls filled with water and old food stationary for days at a time. He adds soap which he claims will prevent mold. I'm not so sure if that's true after several days but perhaps I'm wrong.

Brock also was bored tonight while watching that Ru Paul tv show (yes bored WHILE, implying that he wasn't watching it to cure his boredom but because he likes it). Anyway, he found this website that would allow him take photes of Clark and myself and attach them to cartoon bodies and then dress us up like drag queens. While creepy and mildly amusing, the biggest shock to me was how many options for eye make up there were... I don't look particularly good in pink FYI. Oh drag queens.

In a related note on Summercamp, most of my staff had never heard of Eddie Izzard. This almost made me cry but then I recalled that I only heard of him my freshman year so these kids were just a bit slower in discovering the good times. Actually it was Clark who got me hooked on Eddie though I had a history teacher who used to quote him all the time and I never realized. I showed them some clips from youtube and one of my RAs was like, he's scary. If you don't know, Eddie Izzard is a transvestite, not to be confused with a drag queen. He is also a very funny British man. A lot of his humor is history-based which is probably why he appeals to me so much but there are plenty of other topics covered by him.

It came up because my RA has this running gags about giraffes. I was like you should see this clip! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYcnEonB04E

He was bothered. So then I showed him this clip! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k92aiZxdGKY

He remained unimpressed. Then I asked him if wanted cake or death. He laughed at me and asked me if this guy had something to do with that python grail thing.

I was sad.

But as I continue to work in Student Affairs, I've begun seeing the "generation" gaps. Every few classes have had a different sense of humor, interests and tidbits of things that are relevant to them. Even though these students are only 4 or 5 years younger than me, they still don't really have many experiences living without a cell phone, and would be shocked to hear I didn't have a phone until sophomore year of high school. And people a few years older than me would laugh and say you had a cell phone in high school? We are all the same "Millennials" generation but there are such interesting gaps between us.

I think that's enough for now. Hope you enjoyed the brief Tuesday update. See you next week, though I will be traveling so it may be Monday again. Goodnight!

Currently reading: I have a Resident Assistant training book lined up for my flight, but I'm also bring a Shadow in the Wind.

Currently listening to: Sitting, Waiting, Wishing- Jack Johnson, he always de-stresses me.

Currently playing: pulled out Dragon Age again for a bit while continuing Golden Sun: Dark Dawn

-JTY