Not a Bad Week

The first week of Summer Youth Fitness is in the books.    It was the best start we've had with me as the director so I'm happy about that.   Not many snafus or issues.    I did have some parents make some suggestions for our drop off and pick up procedures which irritated me as I don't think they understand what it takes to organize almost 120 children at one time.   I guess I should appreciate their concern but at the same token, just go with what has worked for years.

I'm having to hire two more people to help assist with activities as I had one person quit the week before we started and another cannot read his academic schedule apparently and can't come to work on Mondays and Wednesdays.    Factor in people missing due to planned vacations and unplanned issues, it won't hurt to have a couple more people on staff.

I start teaching my health course at ISU on Monday.   It's a tiny class again.   I think I had 9 students last summer and I currently have 7.   They can't cancel it because everyone is a teacher ed student and it will screw up their plan for student teaching and graduation.    Six of the students are seniors.   I'm excited for the small group.   I'm going to try some new tactics as I have been considering some changes in the past year.   I guess one plus is that my grading load will be low,

I have been plugging away at Netflix.   We watched "12 Years a Slave" recently and it was pretty decent.   Of course I prefer the book but the movie did a decent job capturing the character's history.   I had forgotten it was a true story.    Sadly Brad Pitt is hardly in it.    I also watched "Labor Day" today.   It was pretty good.   I did not like the ending.    Our next two movies are "Nebraska" and "Gravity".   "Nebraska" won awards so it was appealing however a preview was provided before "Labor Day" and it didn't really spark my interest.    I'll still watch it, maybe I'll be surprised.    I wish I had seen "Gravity" in theaters.    Something tells me it would be better on a the big screen.

I failed to mention I did start dating again.   No worries, I'm not anywhere near being swept off my feet.    I guess I'm mainly curious about what it's like now that I'm older.   It does feel odd to be with someone for so long and have to go back out and meet new people.   First date was with a guy named Keith and it was meh.    He had an odd sense of humor (laughed a lot of things that really didn't need to be laughed at) and he got weird about physical activity.    I don't like always going out to eat on a date especially since I'm on a strict budget.   I also don't like movies on a date because you can't talk.   So he and I went on a walk at Saylorville Lake.    I'm not sure how far we walked (I don't feel it was that far) but he didn't seem thrilled about a mile into it.   Toward the end of it as we were returning to the parking lot, he made a comment about how we should have turned around sooner.   I was wearing flip flops for Pete's sake and it wasn't that strenuous of an activity.    Maybe he had the same feeling as me during the walk and that was his way of saying we should have cut the date short.

I think that's enough of an update for now!