This Is Easy

Got back from my trip safe and sound last Saturday. Wondering why it was taking me so long to update my blog? It is because I have absolutely nothing to complain about these days!

Within five minutes of sitting down for my first interview, I knew I had the job. The principal and assistant principal at my new school could not have been friendlier, or more welcoming. After at least a dozen interviews in Los Angeles over the past couple of years, I can't explain to you in words how it feels to find a school who is willing to hire me to stand in front of their kids.

I was beginning to feel like it was never going to happen. And the last couple interviews I had before my trip just made me feel like any chance I had at landing a teaching job had already come and gone. By this point, I was second and third guessing myself during these interviews to the degree where I had no idea what I was actually saying anymore.

But everything changed when I got to North Carolina. I love the town I ended up in, and even ended up find a house for my wife and I to live in on the same day I landed my job!

Here's a picture of our new place, with the Dodge Caliber I ended up renting in NC (they were fresh out of Nitros):



Looks like we will be moving out at the end of next month. Many things to do from now until then, and I haven't really even had a chance to start since my phone has been ringing with subbing requests every morning since I got back. I don't really mind though, because we are gonna need to pack away as much cash as possible from now until the time we go.

Still haven't got my mind around the fact yet that I quit my job last month, and landed a job this month doing exactly what I wanted to be doing in the place I wanted to be doing it at. Guessing that the 5th graders in my class will be wondering what the hell I am smiling about all the time!

Oh yeah--before I close, I have to give a shot out to my long-suffering wife, who also quit her job this week and is willing to embark on this crazy adventure with me this summer. I love you more than freshly baked peanut butter cookies.

Yes I see we're moving on
Over unfamiliar ground
Wait a minute look around
This is easy

Yes I see were moving on
Maybe trouble's all we'll find
But compared to what's behind
This is easy

And there were nights when we knew
The sunshine would never ever reappear
It's not a good time all the time
Baby let's grab hold while its here

Baby baby do I need
To explain or can you tell
That I'm feeling oh so well
This is easy

And I know there's not one thing
That could ever drag us down
Wait a minute look around
This is easy

Remember this when the dreams you treasure
Are scattered like bowling pins
It's not a good time all the time
Nobody always wins

This is easy oh so easy
If were crazy. well, we don't care
This is easy oh so easy
It's like falling falling
Falling through empty air

"This Is Easy" was written by Marshall Crenshaw