Big City Student

My roommates and I moved to Vancouver a couple weeks ago. I am attending classes in which we practice the important career skills of making games out of blocks and drawing faces in shaving cream. What do you mean you need me to elaborate? What do you all do in your higher education? No way, really?
Confessionally speaking, I have been academically resistant since grade 12 and recently decided to embrace the fact that I just miss preschool. So I'm learning to teach them, and hopefully I'll learn how to write for them too. You know, before Robert Munsch got published, he worked in Daycares and just told his stories for the fun of it, to entertain the kids. His boss found out about it and made him take time off to write his stories down and try to get them published. Amazing, huh? He sent 10 stories out to 10 publishers and got 1 accepted. Since I'm pretty full of myself when it comes to the publishing ambition, I guess I'll be doing it backwards. Take time "less" (not "off") writing while I see if there's anything to this teaching ability people think I might have. I think I might have it too, but it's like Munsch and the way he first did storytelling (career potential? Ummm...really?)
Don't get me wrong: I know I'll teach for years before writing starts looking anything like a survivable alternative. Doesn't mean it won't be my career. And it doesn't mean that I won't love teaching preschoolers so much that I'll want to stick with it.
I want to thank my 40-hour work week cleaning flooded concrete floors and soot-stained white walls for getting me back into school. As you can tell by this post, my time is not so used up that personal project time can't thrive and be happy. This might change when I get a part-time job (to pay the bills while I'm in school), but the longest I'll let that mess with me is until next April. By then I will be certified to work in Daycares and Preschools, and work in them I will.
I'm adding some info snippets to the end of these posts. If details in my "Currently Writing" list stay exactly the same from one post to the next, anyone who cares to is strongly encouraged to scold me for my slow, lazy progress.

Quote of the Month: Jon says "Computers are somebody’s drunken third cousin."

Favourite Joke: The children were lined up in the cafeteria of a Catholic elementary school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples. The nun made a note, and posted on the apple tray: "Take only ONE. God is watching." At the other end of the table was a large pile of chocolate chip cookies. A child had written a note, "Take all you want. God is watching the apples!"

Coolest Dream: I outran an elephant to the skytrain station, only to pop back to the same spot at home to repeat the run after the skytrain had taken me safely away. By the time I started this second run, the elephant was a carnivorous T-Rex, so rather than just being crushed, there was this added danger of being eaten. The T-Rex was chasing a smaller dinosaur at the skytrain station. I crouched on the train tracks and watched over the edge. As far as I know, I was not electrocuted, caught by the T-Rex or the oncoming train. Yay!

Currently Writing: Okal Rel anthology story (public promise, mom!), chapter 9 of Diamond (2nd Drescopata novel), poems for kids (eventual book-length collection), and brainstorms for new stand-alone sci-fi novel.