A leave of absence.

Sorry it's been so long since I've blogged. I've been busy being lazy. And not.

Richmond is starting to strangely feel like home. The school year ended really well, my students seemed to grasp the lessons I tried to teach them about their writing and a few of them are writing better at this point in their education that I was at University. Very pleased.

One of my students won the national schoolastics award for American voices and was invited to receive his award in New York City at Carnegie Hall. I was asked to go to, but the school was not able to assist with the trip and I was broke. But I have a gold medal also for being his adviser. STOKED.

So on holidays: I've been going to bed very late and waking up late or early. I've been by the pool a lot with Katie's dad Stan. I've been watching Heroes episodes back to back and loving it. I've enjoyed just not being at work.

I'm meeting lots of new friends and feeling kind of settled here.

Bec and Deano Clarke have been visiting from Aus. But we are about to leave here to go to Arlington where they will catch the bus to NYC again, so I will write about our adventures later.

I'm going to try a lot harder to be good at blogging, but those of you who have facebook, I have lots of photos on there already.

Later!