What's New??

Not much. After 2 weeks of swine flu scares and midterm schedule changes we are finally back to our regularly scheduled . . . . schedule? My brain isn't quite ready for these predictable weeks of classes, but my body is getting me there. Hopefully I can recall where my gym is, I haven't been in a while. I have, on the other hand, started playing tennis on (or "at" if you're British) the weekends with Dan. High school Tony was so much better than almost 28 year old Tony. I sweat a lot and my back is usually a bit sore afterward. OH YEAH, I'm almost 28! I don't really have anything planned. I might want to eat good food and play darts. Good Indian food? I think I just made my plans!!

Bangkok is finally cooling off. This is all relative of course. Cooling off means 80's at dusk. It's much more tolerable though, and my shirts are less covered in sweat these days.

Congrats to Dad on the new job for Home Depot!!! It really didn't sound like there was any benefit to working for Fireside so this is a step in a totally awesome direction. Sounds like a perfect fit.

Congrats to Mom on a full client list to keep her busy cutting hair. Sounds like you've given yourself a lot more freedom (and less stress) with this hair biz. Nice work!!

Food of the week is Pad kee mao. It's good. Everything is good.

Swine Flu

I whole heartedly agree with this graph.

Muh muh muh midterms . . . muh muh muh midterms

We have a week of midterms. This is nice. I just have to proctor a few exams (the Brits call it invigilation). I also need to grade the exams and write up some comments for my homeroom students.

I'm expecting the 2nd half of the term to go smoothly.

My bike was stolen. This sucks. It was locked to a gate but someone either cut the lock or it might not have latched properly. I am bummed. So far in my time on this planet I've had:

2 bikes stolen, a car stereo taken, and my Jeep was broken into 3 times (most likely 2 but it feels like 3). I always feel so violated when my stuff gets ripped off. Maybe this is Karma for the time I took a toy from the play room at a Racquet Club in third grade. Either way it sucks and now I'll most likely have to buy another bike. I'm contemplating a scooter, but they're a bit more expensive. It would make traveling through the horrible Bangkok traffic a lot less stressful.

I'll try to take some more pictures of my life here.

Mancation #2

Dan, Dave and I went down to Phuket to chill at the beach for our recent 5 day vacation. I didn't get too many pictures on this trip but I did salvage the memory card from the dead camera so I have a few of those pics included.

PICASA LINK

The trip was awesome. We didn't surf too much but still had a great time. Phuket has a lot of righteous beaches. Patong can get a little busy/dirty but it's not too bad either. We hit Nai Harn, Kata Noi, Kata Yai, and Karon.

Today was my first day back teaching. We ran a rock and roll themed assembly where the kids compete in Air Guitar, Rock Scream, Jump Kicks, Dance Off, and Singing. We thought singing would be a good finale but ended up going over because of it. The best part was definitely the dance off between a chubby kid spazzing out and a future flaming homosexual kid. It was the funniest dancing I've ever seen.

Tomorrow is Friday! 2 day work week! Next week is 4 days and then midterms for a little over a week!

Thailand Rules

Tony