Updates, observations and ,,,sadness

Mallory has stepped out of the box and started her new life in grand style. She loves DC. She would love it more if they had chips and salsa and decent margaritas. She loves teaching. She would love it more if she didn't have to work so many days in a row,,I mean,,what kind of world is this where you have to go to work everyday? And with so many KIDS. Teaching would be a lot easier if there weren't so many kids. Welcome to reality. She's doing great.

Maggie is in her second year at St. Eds. Deans List. Way too many hours of really cool, impossibly hard stuff. She's taking Arabic. Yep. Arabic. Learning to read and speak it. Multiple CSI classes. Loves them. Not sure what else except when she was reading her schedule to me I was just so glad it was her schedule and not mine. Didn't have room in the schedule for piano so she's taking it privately in her free time. Free time? Maggie is doing very maggiewell. Perfection actually.

For me,,life is good at the moment. Work is work. Hostile and toxic at times,,Napolean and I just were not meant to get along. Matters not,,I get up and put on my special scrubs with the target painted on the back,,make sure the tattoo on my forehead that says "FUCK ME OVER" is visible and go merrily about my business. I'm praying for karma. Surely somewhere there is a very large truck that is just itching to run down a lardass nurse with a bad attitude and worse hair. It would be so sweet to get that news.

Pavarotti died. I'm sad. Can anyone sing Ave Maria like he? Nessum? He sang me through many long drives. His voice was the background music to my tears countless nights. He and the other two tenors were my motivational music for Saturday morning cleaning. It doesn't seem right,,The Two Tenors. He is missed already.

Football season is here. Opening GameDay last Saturday. The Horns,,well,,they looked like,,umm,,,they looked like ,,,well,,they won. I still cannot figure out what the heck kind of defense that was,,or wasn't. We were playing a school that shouldn't have scored except possibly after the game on 6th street and we came out of it with a marginal victory. A win is a win,,don't get me wrong. This one goes in the W column for sure. Colt looks stronger than last year. Still not showing any signs of color blindness,,as in he tends to throw to the burnt orange and white the majority of the time. Sweed and Charles look good. We need to build GPS into their helmets ,,they tend to take the long side to side route to the goal line. I'm not sure about our defensive line. We are either the smallest big line I've seen,,or the slowest smaller line. To have the size we have we should have been crashing through and giving that Arkansas QB a real Texas welcome on every play. We didn't. Usually I have a lot of questions answered with the first game. This time I just have more questions. Please don't let this be a sign of things to come.

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