First Day of Classes

Today was the first day of classes for the new semester. I taught four classes today. I am tired.

It was a weird day for a couple of reasons. One, coming home today an idiot in a pickup truck ran a stop sign and nearly pronged me at about 45 miles an hour. He was totally oblivious, but didn’t even have the excuse of being on a cell phone. He simply had his head up his butt.

Secondly, there’s a passive aggressive colleague of mine who has stopped speaking to me. It seems he has a very high sense of self-worth that I can’t quite bring myself to agree with. So he hasn’t spoken to me in about a year and a half. And he’s in his 50s? My god, it sounds like something a high schooler would do.

Today I saw Passive Aggressive in the cafeteria sitting with my boss, and my friend Ted. I get along fine with my boss, I get along fine with Ted. I thought. So I decided to get a cup of coffee and join them, even if Passive Aggressive was uncomfortable with that. In the two minutes it took to get and pay for my coffee, the three of them were gone.

Kinda hurts a guy’s feelings, it does.

Finally, I have recently begun e-mailing a friend I haven’t actually seen in 25 years. I sent her an e-mail last week telling her I was going to be out of town in Orlando for a few days, and that I wouldn’t have access to e-mail during that period. She never got that note, and today I received a concerned e-mail from her wondering why I wasn’t responding to her. I told her it was because I’d been in Orlando.

Although she lives near Chicago, she told me that SHE had been in Orlando this weekend too.

Too weird.