Good morning :)

Today is off to a VERY good start! No work! Hell yes! My boss sent out a mass e-mail this morning saying that the office will be closed today because they're doing some type of major electrical work in the building. I didn't care enough to read the details. I just read the first two sentences, because they were enough to tell me what I needed to know. I don't care about what they're doing to the damn building or why. I'm just excited that I don't have to go to work today! That was a nice surprise. I'll probably still do a little work from home so that I'll have less to do tomorrow, but we'll see.

I'm up way too early. I went to bed fairly early last night, and I thought I'd sleep for a long time, but nope. I woke up at like 4:30 for some odd reason and couldn't fall back asleep again. After about 15 minutes or so, I got out of bed to get a glass of water. I climbed back into bed with the intention of at least trying to fall back asleep, even though I knew I wouldn't be able to. But it wouldn't have mattered anyway, because Jenny woke up when I got back in bed and her horny hormones were going full blast haha. So we had sex for the first time since before the shit with Allison started. Afterward we laid in bed together for a while and Jenny eventually fell back asleep. I still couldn't fall asleep, so I finally just decided to get out of bed. I need to get Evan up in about an hour and get him ready for school. I'll probably go back to bed after I take him to school. I'm starting to get really tired all of a sudden, so I'm sure I'll be ready to go back to sleep by then. I haven't yet overcome the sleep deprivation I've experienced the past week.

I wonder when Allison is going to let me know whether or not she actually took him for the paternity test yesterday. I'm sure she didn't. But right now, I don't care. I'm not worried about it anymore, and that feels SO good! If she e-mails me or texts me or something, I'm not even going to read it until at least tonight, if not tomorrow. I plan on fully enjoying my day off. I'm going to spend it sleeping, probably having sex, and then sleeping some more, and it's going to be amazing. I need a day to just rest. This unexpected day off couldn't have come at a better time!

Man, now I'm REALLY tired. That hit fast. Seriously, the second I get back from taking Evan to school I'm going right to sleep.

Teaching my first class

Starting next Wednesday night, I'm teaching a class at the youth center. It's four hours a night, for four Wednesdays in a row. It's a class that kids who get in trouble for DUIs, underage drinking, and/or drug charges have to take. I have never taught it before. I have sat in on it a few times, and helped out a little bit a couple of times, but I've never actually taught it. A lot of it is just informational, but a lot of it is also based on identifying and changing high risk behaviors. It basically teaches them a little bit about what drugs and alcohol do to your body, information about alcoholism and addiction, what the risk factors of addiction are, how to make better choices, and other shit like that.

I'm a little nervous about teaching it. Not too nervous though. It's not like I really have to come up with anything on my own haha...it's all curriculum-based. I went through the training for it a while ago, so I know what I'm doing. It's not like it's hard anyway. But still...it's my very own class. I'm not used to that. I'll be the only instructor. I do have some experience teaching classes though, since I helped out my professor quite a bit when I was a T.A. for him...he had me teach a few sessions. Then there were a few other times where he asked me to come talk to classes, but that wasn't actually teaching. I think it will be a good experience. I have led group session things plenty of times, and I do some one-on-one stuff at the youth center too, but this teaching thing will be a first!

Everyone in the class will be under the age of 21. We deal with kids up to the age of 21, since they're still minors when it comes to alcohol. Even if it's for drugs, we still go up to age 21. They're planning on starting up a program for college-aged people at our center too. It will probably take a while to set up, but I'm glad they're doing it. That won't be for at least another year though.