This time last year I was in Scotland, I think I had already gone on my trip to Dublin and was getting ready to go to Paris. ...things are a little different this year, I went to Kaufman a couple days ago, and I'm going to Italy(Texas) and Waco this afternoon. Not quite as glamorous.
Right now I'm sitting in Starbucks, in Westvillage, a little more glamorous, enough so that I felt the need to look slightly fashionable and dressed up at 9:30 in the morning to sit in Starbucks to read BBC news and write a blog. I just discovered last week that if you have a gift card you can use the Internet for free! and all these years I had been holding a grudge against Starbucks because I thought it was very rude of them to make people pay for Internet.

So, hopefully my days of, "I hate working retail and I need a job" are over! I got the job as a bilingual/ESL teacher assistant at an elementary school in Dallas. I hope that it turns out to be a great job, but even when it isnt perfect, I'm going to stick with it, at least for the children :-)

Hopefully the next time I write an actual post I will have something to talk about. Because right now, not a whole lot has been happening....a major part of the past couple weeks...my attempt, mostly failed attempt to train my roommate Dana's dog. I'm not trying to train him to be a circus dog or to be a tv star, like Wishbone, like I tried to do with my little dachshund Bob. I'm just trying to get him to stop his painfully high pitched incessant barking, and trying to teach him not to pee in the house anymore. Maybe because he isn't MY dog I don't feel a particular attachment or affection towards him. To quote someones facebook status, its a "hate hate relationship with love sprinkles on top." You may think that sounds a little harsh, but last night I turned around in the kitchen to say something to Dana and stepped in a puddle of pee, a couple days ago, I was awoken at five in the morning by his barking, and a few days before that I woke up to the sound of him throwing up on my favorite quilt that I made with my grandma. He also discovered the trashcan a few days ago, and basically any time we leave the bathroom door open, or have trash in the kitchen he manages to make a big gross mess everywhere. I might stop by the pet store and buy one of those high pitched whistles or a shock collar...or both. I wonder if this is what having children is like? I start my job on monday, I think I'll like him a lot more when we spend less time together.