Watty - friend, musician, husband, father...teacher?

Yep, that's right. I applied to Ashford University's online program and am tentatively scheduled to start my BA in Social Sciences on the 19th. The idea of being an English teacher has been kicking around in my head for years, and I finally decided to just do it. I'm excited (and a little nervous). Turns out credits DON'T expire (thankfully the money that was spent on community college courses in my young-and-stupid years will still be worth something), and if I have the amount of credits I think I have, I'll probably be starting as a junior.

I've been trying to work on things with Allie and have been spending more time with her and Tristan. I'm cautiously optimistic - things seem to be going pretty well, and we've talked over some of the issues that led to the separation. I've also been trying to find a suitable counselor to talk to and hopefully sort out the nuts and bolts in my head that have been knocked loose. I've started with references from family and friends, but so far it's been difficult to find one that's available when I am.

Music has been put on an indefinite hold. I dink around on my guitar when I can (Tristan loves it when I do), but as far as the band goes, I'm still not talking to Danny. Practice is obviously more difficult (and slightly pointless) when you don't have a drummer. I've not had time for much of that anyway, seeing as pretty much all my time lately has been spent working or being with my family.

I'm still irritated about those two. It's hard to push past the uber-dramatic episode that they and I had, and I know for a fact that this will never be resolved. I'm not sorry for speaking up, and I know they will never stop speaking out, so I guess that's that. That's all I have to say on that subject.

I'm going to go watch a friend and coworker perform his stand-up comedy bit tonight since apparently Nana has Tristan over at her place :). Sounds like a great Thursday night thing to do.

Thanks for listening.