The world isn't the same; you'll never change it.

The past few weeks have brought huge promise and change to my household. Last Wednesday, I turned in my two weeks notice at The Clarion Ledger because I had finally gotten a job as an English teacher. Actually, I had been offered two jobs and had to choose between the two. One was a teaching job (the one I chose) and the other was a position in Mississippi College's Career Services department. Both had promises and "fun" attached with them, but I chose the one that I knew God was leading me towards and the one I've been working for over a year to procure.

Any way, next Thursday is my last day at the CL, and it's bitter-sweet (like every last day at a job). I'm really going to miss the people I work with. I just feel the newspaper business is not a safe place in which to raise a family.

Also, my brilliant wife is shifting work as well. Meg is going to be one of the graduate assistants in the history department at Mississippi College as well as teaching a freshman level history class, Western Civilization. She's on her way to finishing her MA as well as becoming "Professor Chapman." Good job, chicklet.

We had a small break from central Mississippi and went to Perdido Key. We shopped and laid out in the sun, played some volleyball and boogie boarded. But now it's back to reality (sort of).

Phillip is coming home this Sunday to spend a week home before gearing up to head to the University of Memphis. He's excited, and I'm excited for him. I keep saying, "Wow, Phillip. D-1 ball!"

The Friday after my last day (Aug. 31) Meg and I are finally celebrating our anniversary. Nothing like a celebration five weeks after the real date, huh? We're going to New Orleans and staying in what we like to call "our" hotel (The Ambassador Hotel). We're also eating dinner on the Natchez Steamboat on Friday night and taking the Voodoo tour on Saturday night. Going to be fun (and frightening).

But it's back to work for me. August is surely going to bring some big change. I'm starting a new job, Meg's starting a new job, my cousin's wife is having her THIRD baby, my brother's starting at Memphis, and the world is never going to be the same.

"The world isn't the same, you'll never change it." (love that line).