RBOC

• There are still posters with L's picture on them (covered in handwritten notes from the students) plastered around the school; otherwise, things at Large College are mostly back to normal. I know that life goes on, but... well, it's just so weird to think that he's really gone. He started at LC a few terms after I did, so I've seen him on a almost daily basis for almost four years. It doesn't feel right to not see him.
  
  
• Four more weeks left in the term, which means there are only eight more times I have to get up at the buttcrack of dawn. Woo-hoo! My students are still fantastic (I will so miss this group when they graduate!), but they are struggling... they're coming in later and later each day. It's disruptive and annoying, but I have to admit that there's a part of me that fully understands. A few of them live in the southern suburbs - it takes them almost two hours to get to school (via multiple trains) each day. I wouldn't want to have to get up at 4:30 to go to school (especially considering none of them signed up for an early-morning class - it was originally a late-afternoon class).
  
  
• The snow. Sigh. I have absolutely no use for snow after the holidays. It's no longer pretty or festive. It's dirty, crusty, and annoying. Go away! This is why I need to move to California.
  
  
• This is the time of the year in which I always have a major case of the blahs. I've been working out at least five days a week and I can say that it's helping, but overall, I still feel... well, just yucky. The weather is gross, it's dark when I leave in the morning and dark when I get home from the gym... it's just always gloomy in my world. February always brings an unrelenting sadness (though I'm not depressed about anything in particular). For it being such a short month, February really seems to drag on and on.
  
  
• Dear John Mayer: I love you. Please stop saying douche-y things. Seriously, WTF is wrong with you?!? [full interview here]