Thinking...

A longer post will be coming, that includes all of the details of the Thanksgiving break.  Until then, this will be a really quick update.

Danielle and I drove down to California on Tuesday.  I spent a lot of quality time with my family, ate way too much food, went to the movies, and went to a bachelorette party.  On Sunday, today, I drove back to Utah alone.  It was as I was leaving and making the long drive that I had time to think about the situation that I have in Utah.  Again, more explanation will be given in my next post.  To make along story short, I am not happy with life right now.  I don't feel like there is anything holding me here.  It takes me a long time to make real friends, and then they end up leaving.  I have no family here.  I was already planning on looking for a new job.  Unless something changes dramatically, this will continue to be the way that I feel while living here in Utah.

I am starting to make some decisions.  I just wish I knew where they would lead.  What I am hoping and praying for is either a job in the Salt Lake School District (where I wold be making more, and could maybe afford to fly home more often), or find a job (teaching or non-teaching) in Southern California.  The thing that depresses me the most is that I don't see how that last option will happen.  I haven't heard about teaching opening up in California and if I got a different type of job, I would need to make enough to live on my own.  One of my co-workers put it best "I have educated myself into a corner."  What else can I do?

More to come later.