Where did i park my car?

walked out the house on my way to work. looked at the temp car port which housed my car and while i usually see the front hood of my black wrx, today i assumed that perhaps i didn't pull all the way up. but panicked, i strode to amazingly see that my car was not there. but somebody has to be f#$%ing playing me right?!? but i see the action to their reaction and realize this is no joke. better call in a sub

called the police and filed a claim with my insurance company. thanked god that i just got it too...like a week before. on the down side, i just got an oil change, got some worn down belts replaced and just registered my car and got Cali plates. ouch...

with nothing more to do i went to work in the parents' ride. can you guess what the talk around the lunch-table was? Funny the things people get stolen. I knew I could count of the lunch-bunch to make me not feel alone.

now now don't think i didn't think about getting a new car out of the deal. it would most likely be the next step in a situation like this. avoiding the idea of car payments (since i'm paid off), i shopped around on the internet and came across the audi a3 and what a beauty that machine is! maybe payments won't be that bad...

so before i went to sleep that night, i daydreamed the possibilities of dreams filled with zipping wagons until my phone went off anyways...

LAPD found the car I need to pick it up ok AWESOME! oh wait...would my car just be chopped to pieces?! would the bastard that stole my car have crashed it?! i dreamt of A wagon...and it wasn't zippy. :(

call in the sub...gotta get my car.

i had to pay about $200 in towing/storage fees. bull$h!t!!

over the wall i could make out my car and it seemed fine. and on closer inspection i realized that the car almost absolutely the same as i left it. radio check engine parts check smelly thing for my car check $3 in change no check...i could live with that. and best of all, which gas prices so high and all. s/he drove less than 50 miles!

while driving my car to get a wash (poor car), i was wondering, how ironic it would be if the bastard woke up, went to his car and wondered where his car went...apparently the guy parked in a no-parking spot and they towed his car


but no time for me to mess around now. i had to call my insurance adjuster and close my claim and prepare for Back to School Night. Freaked out that the classroom would like a ceramic war-zone (i had been away for about 2 days!), but the class was in great shape. my kids rock! it's always such a great thing to know that your class can run just as well even when there is a sub in. i was so proud...so i shared that with my parents at Back to School Night.

all in all one of the most bizare experiences in my life...

Settlin' In...

Two weeks in and it seems to be cool runnings...

For those of that don't know I used to teach at La Canada High School from 2000-2004 until he had budget cuts and as a "newest" hire I was gone.

but that unfortunate event lead to me going to Korea and starting to blog in the first place... so kudos to budget cuts!

But some things are like riding a ride again and some things are sorta like riding a bike again. for me getting back into the classroom and getting to know my kids is like getting back on that proverbial bike.

I would say i know all my names and now I get to learn about them while I educate them in the many wonders of clay and ceramics...