life lately

Not bad, not bad at all. Kathleen and I were supposed to go to Disneyland today, and I called her to let her know that I didn't have detention so I could meet her there earlier, and she walked out to her car to leave to meet me, and there was a man in her car! He totally was in the middle of breaking into her car! She knocked on the car window and started yelling at him, "What the f*ck are you doing?!!!" and then realized what he was doing and called 911, which was busy because of all the fires. So the guy got away, but she's safe and her car didn't get stolen. Praise God that I didn't have detention and called her early to hang out otherwise he would have been long gone with her car before she came out. She's going to come over and hang out at my house tonight.

School is going well. I still really am enjoying my job. It's just plain cool. I love my kids and enjoy them so much! One of them, who I'm working with after school a lot and helping out with her math, is really a puzzle to me. She understands the information in the moment, but really seems to have trouble storing it and retrieving it. I really wish that I knew more about brain chemistry and functions so that I could help her.

'Nother thing, while translating a passage from Spanish to English for my class, I realized that my brain recognizes all the parts of Spanish as Spanish and translates them, except for the nouns. More than 5 times in two pages I caught myself saying the Spanish noun ("rey" for example) instead of the English one ("king"). Interesting.

Next brain thing ... I think that I am at least slightly dyslexic. A few months ago I saw an ad for a fast food restaurant that I thought was called Chick-A-Fil. I've seen the name numerous times since and always thought that that was what it was called, "chick-a-fil" because that is what I saw every time. It wasn't until I went there last Saturday night with my lil bro and Christian went there and I was telling my honey that I went to "chick-a-fil" that he said that it's actually called, "Chick-fil-A" which makes a lot more sense phonetically. I looked carefully at the sign, and sure enough, "chick-fil-a" is how it is and has always been spelled. But even now, if I don't look carefully, I still see "chick-a-fil." My brain is twisted.

Josh is doing well. He had his day off today and slept a lot. He's going to work overtime tomorrow. They are really busy at work because of all the fires.