What's happened since my last post? Well Sunday (the 26th) was my mom's birthday, and I tried calling her all day but she always had her phone off (she's still in Oregon). I started getting worried that she was mad at me or something--that maybe she thought I'd forgotten her birthday. Then she didn't have her phone on Monday either. Finally she called me Monday night and explained that she'd been hiking at some waterfalls with Brianna on Sunday and didn't get reception, and then she went to bed early and slept in.

I'm on my lunch break right now, and after this we head over to Cambridge Rindge and Latin School where we'll all be teaching this summer. I'm going to be teaching 9th grade world literature. This morning we had our first Adolescent Development class, which was a lot different than the other two classes about adolescence I've had. We started with a pretty comprehensive survey on the history of psychoanalysis from Freud through Erickson through social and emotional learning. The instructors are very smart, very cool guys. It's funny, though--any time I'm in a class where we're discussing psychoanalysis I always get all paranoid, like "oh no, what if I haven't resolved this developmental conflict,' or "what if I'm too committed or not commited enough to my sense of who I am??"

Yesterday and Monday we had T210X with Dorinda and Heather. Yesterday for the second half of the class we split into two groups and had a discussion about race and why it's so hard to talk about racial issues. Heather was leading my group, and I just want to say the she is fucking *awesome*. She is so sharp and so assertive and such a good listener and discussion leader.

Oh shit, I have to go to class. Okay, I'll continue this later tonight.