Hi, I'm uncomfortable.

I wish I was aggressive. I wish I could stand up for myself sometimes.

Situation:

Yesterday I was sitting at the bus stop on the corner of Locust and Oakland.  A very busy intersection with a lot of opportunities to people watch.

I was on the phone with Patrick, resting my elbow on my knee and my chin on my palm blabbing on about my day.  I was absently mindedly gazing at the Subway across the street when there was suddenly a man blocking my view.

He was 6'1" or 6'2", had a large beer belly.  He was wearing a white Atomic Records t-shirt, but his large, hairy belly was poking out the bottom of the shirt.  He had a brown suit coat over the t-shirt and khaki pants.  His hair was shoulder length, dirty and barely contained under a neon green ski cap.  He had large plastic framed glasses on and was holding a camera up to his face.

I glance up at him and realize he was attempting to take my picture.  He exchanged no words with me, just stood in front of me and made awkward noises as I attempted to hide my face with my hand.  I tried to make it look like I was rubbing my forehead, but I'm pretty sure he could tell what I was doing.

After about thirty seconds he shuffled away , slowly following and older couple he apparently knew.  He looked back and caught me staring at him, and again attempted to take my picture, but I turned my head away. 

The entire time I kept thinking why don't I just ask him what the fuck is he doing and tell him he can't take my picture.  

I'm a sissy.

Latest Obsessions

1.  The x-files.  Patrick and I decided since neither of us do anything socially (go to bars, have fun outside the comfort of our home)  we could spend the money on complete collection of x files.  All the seasons, plus the movie, and a sweet poster.  We watched the first two episodes last night.....hopefully we'll be done in August.
2.  Guacamole!!!  Damn this shit is great.  And when you eat it with tostitos scoops you can really load your chip with green gooey goodness.
3.  Nada Surf.  Thanks to the generosity of Erin Gorski  I now own "Lucky".  I listen to it at least once a day.  Boy have they come a long way since Popular.  I saw them open for some band at The Globe East (remember that small east side MKE venue???) and all people did was yell Popular and boo when they would play any other song.  

4.  Tofutti cuties!  I can't get enough of these snack size sandwiches.  I wish they were gigantic sized.

roller coaster

I feel like my life has extreme ups and downs that last minutes or sometimes days.  I wish it were less extreme and I'd feel more in control.

Timeline

Let's break down the next four months of my life.

March 14-16 Barista Competition held by Alterra in MKE!!! lots of coffee nerds in one building = fun fun fun!! (promise)

March 16th Brandy back in MKE!

March 17-21 UW-MKE spring break. except my professors still making us go to class. 

March 20th tax return deposited! tattoos and dunks!

March 21st-28th MPS spring break.

March 23rd Beef's bday

March 24th Mom's bday

April 11th Hanson with Em

May- nothing, what the fuck? let's plan something!

June 10th-12th MPS finals.

June 13th done student teaching!!!!!!

What then? Not sure.

Maybe vacation to North Carolina with a crew in June or July.

Find a "real" job? Maybe....haha.

Spend my life at Alterra with lines of 20+ ppl for 8 hrs straight?  Sounds great!

Congrats!

I was sitting in Alterra, lurking myspace.  (suprised??)  

A grandpa aged man walked up to me and stood about two feet away and stared at me.

I thought he was going to ask me why I kept looking at him earlier, which was because I was trying to figure out if he had a lazy eye...seriously.

Instead he says:

GM: "I'd like to congratulate you on having jeans without any rips or tears or holes or anything in them."

me: "My pants?"

GM: "Yea."

me: laughs "Thanks"  (thinking: was that old dude checking out my ass?!)

more prepared

You'd think after years of living in WI, the people of Wisconsin would be a little more prepared when it came to winter/snow.

Ridiculous things I've seen this winter:

-people thinking a hooded sweatshirt is a sufficient winter coat (myself included)

-girls in heels with more than a foot of snow on the ground

-using a license plate/cd as a snow/ice scraper for your car

-wiping off only driver side portion of windshield, leaving side windows and back window covered in snow. As well as leaving at least a foot of snow on hood/roof/trunk of car.

"you shouldn't be a teacher"

today one of my students told me i shouldn't be a teacher.

she said i'm not a "people person"

she may have been reacting to my statement earlier when i told her 

"if she wants to keep talking she can go to the office and talk to the administrators the rest of the hour"

maybe.....

then she came up to me after class and apologized for talking and being mean.