So, it's been a little while since I blogged last. Like a year and a half. Oops.

This is not a promise to return to blogging, I've done that enough and failed at it epically, but for whatever reason I've felt compelled to blog lately. There's just something about Facebook that isn't doing it for me. I feel the need to write something that isn't a stupid note that I need to tag people in. Regardless of whether I start blogging more, I think I need to update my template. I'm not happy with it, and even if this blog serves only to be an archive of my life, it should look better.

I guess an update is needed. I did indeed start the MAIS program at Athabasca. I completed MAIS 601 in December, and then MAIS 602 in May. I opted not to do a course over the summer because I really needed a break. I'd like to do three courses a year at some point, but I'm not sure I'm ready yet. Managing a heavy school work load, work with its many evening meetings, and also spending time with Kayla and Elodie. This is one of the reasons I can't commit to blogging. I found that during school almost all of my extracurricular activities, hobbies, and even my social life fell by the wayside. As much as I love video games, I've barely touched a controller over the past year. Aside from some Rock Band (that doubled as couple time with the wife), I've only played a snippet here and there.

Despite my ramblings, I do love school. Even with all the stress it brings, I'm eager to get back to it next month. I love the interaction with students and educators, the social discourse, the intellectual orgy of ideas and concepts. I'm also finding that the grad environment is much more open to individual concepts and even the questioning of ideas being taught. It's good stuff, let me tell you...

I don't really want to blog about work because it's kind of stressing me out right now. I really, really, like my job but I do not like event planning. Right now it's nothing but event planning and it's driving me insane. September may very well be the death of my sanity, by October will be Rocktober in comparison.

The family is good. Elodie continues to grow and be amazing and adorable. Every day, every single day, she does something that just surprise you - something that makes you smile and makes you proud to be her parent. She also does things like boss you around or drop the f-bomb, and that does not make you smile (well, the f-bomb did) but that comes with the territory.

Reading: Ripples from the Zambezi
Listening: All American Rejects, Marianas Trench (guilty pleasure), Andy Davis, Dave Barnes

See you in another year. ;)