Mourning

So today was one of those icky days at work. It wasn't icky in the sense that the kids were bad or anything like that. It was more along the lines of the fact that I was talking with a teacher and we were discussing tenure. She believed that tenure was achieved after three consecutive years. I am crossing my fingers that is not the case because I am too old to start over next year.

So then on the way home I was listening to a CD and it had the song Mourning by Tantric on it and singing along to it made me feel a bit better. It made me remember the first time I heard it. I first heard the song back in February 2002 as I was sitting at Tabula, on the University of North Dakota campus, prepping for my NESPA (I think that was the name of the test). My friend Harmony and I decided to take a break from studying and she said I needed to listen to this song. She put the headphones on me, started the song and walked off to get something to drink.

As I listened, the words spoke to me, as songs tend to do for college-aged kids. I had recently been through a big break up and instantly liked the song. I don't remember that it made me sad. It just made me realize that things happen for a reason. So I guess listening to it today maybe created the same feeling: that things happen for a reason. Even though right now, I am blind as to what those reasons are when it comes to working in this district.