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- How am I feeling?:
moving forward
So Rei and I have a babysitting gig with the woman who owns the yard behind us, we've stripped the wallpaper, spackled and primed our room, and have discovered we make awesome wall-painting partners since her knees aren't so great with bending to the bottom and I'm too short to reach the top.
We put a coat on that sucker in fifteen minutes. Hell yes.
I'm also crossing my fingers and hoping my interview goes well next week for a weekend job as a friend for an autistic child about half an hour away from here. He's the sweetest thing ever.
Devin has some photos from our paint-shopping endeavors. Too bad he wasn't there to take pictures when Rei randomly decided to gift-wrap/assault me with brown paper and painters' tape. Or when we arted all over the stripped unprimed walls. (Including a bunch of Rei's stick figures that shouted "No! Don't paint over us! Aaaaagh!", which I sanded over and narrated with evil laughter, pitiful screaming and "Aaaaah the pain! The agony!").
We're a couple of demented people.
(Not just me either. She drew a picture of herself with cat ears and when I had to sand over spackle that an ear was drawn on, she meowed loudly right behind me until I stopped.)
Tomorrow we tackle the paint.
- Where am I?:living room floor
- How am I feeling?:
Going to sleep. - What am I listening to?:air conditioner
Go ahead, ask me anything. I'll have net at hotels, I promise I'll have pictures!
- Where am I?:Levelland, Texas
- How am I feeling?:
excited
SO. Lost my car keys. Turns out I left them in the action tank and someone was nice enough to put them in the cup holder for me, but I was too dumb to think to check in the cupholder, so I was on my hands and knees under the seats XD
But anyway yeah, lost them found them, if you missed it it was tense and exciting and there was confetti, llamas and a gunfight involved. Sorry.
(Can you tell I'm a little fried? :D; )
Little hard to type -- I jammed my finger playing basketball with some middle schoolers at the Young Heroes retreat over the weekend and never iced it. Alicia said in the first 24 hours is when that makes a difference, soooo I'm not sure what to do about it right now. Suggestions?
Still trying to find a llama for my lesson on South America on Thursday. Heifer International has a ranch out here with llamas and alpacas, but I finally got in touch with them (their computer wasn't working, the guy was this adorable, young-sounding country boy) and their llamas are apparently not very people-friendly. Anxious llamas. Tch. So I'm trying to get in touch with a local petting zoo to see if they can do a last-minute thing.
Young Writers Open Mic Night was last night and it was AWESOME. Pictures and detailed stories and stuff soon. Right now I have a little less than ten minutes before I start my tutoring rounds for the day...yaaaaay kindergarten! Hee. Missed them yesterday doing Teacher Appreciation and YW Open Mic Night prep. *hugs them*
Btw, Rei hacked my devart account, and while I was a little '...mrr...' about her posting to my journal I actually think it was kind of cute that she did it to update our avatars, since we usually have matching ones -- and usually of Forest and Simon, hm... -- but it's kind of funny to see others' reactions. And...a little sad :D;; *told one guy to chill out a little... *
I'm going to have to make some icons eventually.
Is that not just the picturesque example of after-school-special healthy?
So yeah, lack of updates because:
a) the optional 4th and 5th grade musical, which we were never even warned about, started rehearsals last week on Tuesdays and Thursdays, which meant...Landon and occasionally Asiah and I were hanging out for about an hour before the rest of Young Writers came back. SO. I had to come up with a way to revamp Young Writers.
b) Young Writers Open Mic Night/ Open House is next Tuesday night. Planning on that one is also all me.
c) I took on Teacher Appreciation Week because it wasn't Parent Engagement, which is way more involved, and obviously between a and b that would have been beyond my limits. So it's going well -- got fifty flowers in-kinded (donated) by a sweet woman who runs a florist shop with her name in the title. Working on the food...still...
annnnd d.
D for derail.
D for I maybe might have gotten a little sick so I wasn't taking care of my elf or surroundings properly which may have led to me getting sicker.
So right now I started on antibiotics for a sinus infection that got reeeeally scary a few days ago if only because I've never had one before (I didn't realize that your sinuses had so many potential exits in the face, wth). And I can't hear out of my right ear still. You know how it feels when you get water in it? That's what it's like. And the clinic doctor gave me a referral to an ENT (Ear Nose Throat specialist) because if I can't hear out of it by Friday or so I need to make an appointment to make sure the infection, which was caused by a virus, didn't cause permanent hearing damage.
But other than that I'm good. Got together some great stuff for my Littles, because they wanted to know how I made my Prince Rei doll (which, by the way, ReDarious is still referring to as the George Washington pirate dude), and I determined to show them how to sew without bringing an actual needle to school. Yeahno.
Plastic needles, embroidery floss and letting them trace and cut their own patterns on some really soft felt and fleece I got from the ends and scraps and clearance fabric bin at Joann's... I'm going to let them choose from a bunny pattern, a bear, or an elephant, they're going to cut it out, and by that time it's going to be art class. So I'm going to take it home, put holes along the edge, and bring back a little 'kit' in a dollar-store wallet thing that includes their floss and plastic needle, and they're going to learn to sew it right-side-in and turn it right-side-out and stuff it. And we'll go week-by-week and it'll be awesome.
I had laryngitis for about a week straight, which made kindergarten interesting, mainly because I do Phoneme Segmentation Fluency interventions with them. That means being able to break words into phonemes, sounds -- being able to hear the k, aaaaah, t in cat. A lot of them have gotten much better.
Anyway, my voicelessness ended up leading us to an activity that they love, and that I love, because it works on not only PSF, but on letter recognition and spelling. It's putting it together in a perfect, applicable way. I adore it. It's a plastic ball that breaks in half like an easter egg, and inside is a small object -- like a plastic toy animal, or a piece of doll furniture -- and the foam letters to make that object.
I barely had to explain what the objects were, the kids were having fun, and homan were they learning. They were learning to break it apart into the phonemes -- and I wouldn't give them the letters until they got it -- and then they were SPELLING THE WORDS. IT IS SO EXCITING. The extra extra extra is that these are also good for oral comprehension activities for some of the students who don't get a lot of communication at home, because they'll just start talking about the objects, and if you don't it's so easy to start. "You're right, it's a hat! Does that hat fit you?" or "Hmmm what would you cook in that pot? I think I'd make spaghetti."
(By the way, the pot was my favorite because it was a bitty barbie-sized metal pot complete with lid in that dar speckled blue so much traditional country-designed cookware is in, and I discreetly but shamelessly kept digging through trying to find that one to offer it to my kids -- only I don't know what's in them either, so it was hard to keep breaking them open and peeking. >.> )
They're amazing. A. Ma. Zing. I want a set of my own. Seriously. If the whole school got together to give me a going away present that is what I would want.
...by the way, I've never had them before the meal in this picture, but Fuji apples are really really delicious.
Heee....and my kindergarteners have a little performance tomorrow at 6... <3 You better believe I'm there...
- Where am I?:still North Little Rock!
- How am I feeling?: content
- What am I listening to?:Jonas Brothers - That's Just The Way We Roll
I HAVE NO PLOT. OR FORM. WTF.
- How am I feeling?:
frustrated
Yus, I've been something like a week without the laptop right around the same time I had lesson plan deadlines for the most massive lesson plan I've ever done. My timing is AMAZING.
So this is a massive random update of a little bit of everything.
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The Arkansas Children's Hospital didn't want the flowers (they told me after I'd taken them to work in those big tubs) so I found a nearby nursing home that took them. I really don't like nursing homes. I never have. No matter how cozy they look on the outside, inside they're always disturbingly sterile, a hospital. I think those are the only places that leave me feeling uneasy even after I've left.
I'll tell you though, watching me get those flowers to the office must have been hysterical. I was laughing at myself.
First off, I took a halfday because I'd had a migraine when I woke up (and that whole migraine + kindergarteners =/= success). So I went to the office at noon. And there weren't any parking spaces in front of the building, so I parked across the street.
Only I can't jaywalk in uniform so I had to cross at the corner, which was about two yards from the car. And the tubs with the flowers had water in them so they were pretty heavy.
So I took one, stumbled to the corner, crossed the street, and put it down intending to sit it in the shade of the Museum of Discovery overhang. But if I managed to get both tubs there, then what? I couldn't drag them on the pavement and leaving one there seemed like a bad idea...
I walked it up to the Clinton Museum Store building (pretty much next to the museum, but seperated by an outdoor exhibit area so it feels like half a block sometimes!), where our office is located, and set it inside. Getting the door open was interesting business.
Then I walked down to the corner, crossed the street, walked back to my car, and did it all again.
Then I tried to drag both of them through the door under the stairs into the back hall where the elevator is (we're on the third floor), but the door is apparently not one that stays open, and the tubs were heavy enough to be awkward but apparently not heavy enough to keep the door open. So I opened the door, ran to the tub, and managed to get back through before it closed. Then I kept it open with my foot, stretched, grabbed the other tub and dragged it through. Then I managed to get them both to the elevator, which was another race against a door. Same thing getting them out at my floor.
Too bad there wasn't a camera huh?
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Starting art classes again. I called to ask if there was still space in the same Figure Drawing class I'd taken last time, because not only was it past registration, but it was the first day of class (which I ended up missing -- and the second -- but hogawd it was so worth it for the third). It's even with Jessica again, who went and got married so I was thrown for a loop when I saw her last name in parenthesis next to her new one in the catalogue.
"Have you taken a class with us before?"
"Yes ma'am."
"What's your name please?"
"Joanna Goodman --"
"...oh! Joanna!"
"*blinks*"
"It's Jessica! We definitely still have space for you."
I've been playing with style and...well I did something even *I* thought was professional.
It's always a little fun in these classes because most of the students are, if they're even near twenties, well into their twenties, and I come in there always looking a little lost because by then I'm totally shot, and like I'm fresh out of high school, and I don't think anyone expects much out of me. < One of my favorites of the evening.
I'll upload more later when I have a computer and a scanner in the same room.
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I also picked up knitting again. I'm knitting like crazy.
I'm actually knitting the partner to that right now, but it's really warm, and I'm finding that handwarmers are really easy to knit up and go quicker than scarves, so I may be selling some via Etsy.com soon.
Yes. That's totally a ladybug button.
And then there's these -- well, this:
Which looks great except I made the thumbhole on the wrong end, and then the seams tore. SO. I will be redoing it. But yeah, totally comfy, both soon-to-be-sets. X3
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Uhhh I had more but I forgot.
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Oh yeah. Right. On me being a total sucker.
I'm (officially?) a team leader for Team Change for Young Heroes, the program we run for middle schoolers. I'd say I don't know how it happened, but it's really simple.
a) I did a day with them because they asked and I needed the hours.
b) Vantina stopped being a team leader, so Change would have nobody else.
c) One of the kids told me, "This is my last year. I really want you to be my team leader."
d) I AM A HUGE, HUGE SUCKER.
Yup. And you know, it's Oksana's team, and she was my "Young Hero buddy" for Red Jacket ball and she is ADORABLE and a sweetheart, and that might have been what did me in. I want to see the look on h er face when she finds out I'm her new team leader.
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I've been on kind of an environmentalist kick lately, so if I say something TOO insane (like, "People who live outdumpsters are SO COOL.") you know me, just...ignore me xD Or argue with me, it'll let me talk back and get it out of my system.
The extreme parts, not the good parts.
By the way -- reduce comes before recycle and so does reuse.
And fourteen plastic shopping bags have enough petroleum in them to run a car a mile.
Yeah. So canvas. Canvas bags are awesome. You can get them for free and I'm probably going to start knitting some market bags to felt when I have the willpower.
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I really, really, really, really, really need to do laundry. And clean my room oh GOD. You can always tell when I was in a slump. Dishes. Everywhere. Ugh.
And my car. I need to clean out poor Sammy.
Who is currently filled in the back seat with recycling. Have to do that too.
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None of my prints sold at Icon. One piece sold for $35, the big one I wanted to get rid of, and I know I got at least one new viewer to my devart. The hundred down the drain...it hurts us...
But it was a scifi-anime-fantasy convention and I was selling anime.
Maybe I'll try and sell the prints through Etsy too.
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Brayonna has been asking me to bring in my Scrabble board. I have to find it now. It's...somewhere...
Young Writers is interesting. The kids who are left generally and genuinely adore their work. Half my plans are derailed because they want to work on their stories. I mean, I did arm them to the teeth with creative writing basics and pfsh, if they're going to get that enthusiastic about something, am I really going to tell them no?
We're doing poetry this month, with a slam at the end -- now if only I could get them to stop working on their stories for long enough to start the unit...
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Oh yeah. And tornados. Ha. Hahaha. I'll save that for next time.
- Where am I?:Downtown Main Library, Little Rock, AR
- How am I feeling?:
crazy
Been playing with flowers leftover from the Red Jacket Ball. They had a bucket full and when they couldn't fit any more they put them in a garbage bag and were going to throw them away! >.o So I grabbed it and salvaged what I could, and tomorrow I'm taking it over to Arkansas Children's Hospital to see if they could use some bouquets.I really like this flower combination though. The stalk flowers and maybe some lilac hydrangea instead of white could be a really beautiful wedding bouquet. (It's a really bad idea to use floral color adjectives when describing flowers that aren't that adjective.)
And yes, news from like...last month that you might have heard elsewhere:
I'm engaged. <3
Not sure how to follow that up so I'll update again later. Mmhm.
- How am I feeling?: chipper
- I have over $200 in my bank account for the first time in forever! Whoo!
- We had an awesome Financial Fitness LDD on Friday, where Brian Anderson, great guy from a credit/debt service, showed us how I can BUDGET that over-$200. He was amazingly helpful; I'm keeping his card and harassing him again in the near future.
- Young Writers has started off pretty fantastically if I do say so myself, even though Rodaris, one of the fourth graders in the group, made me want to put him out the window on Wednesday. It's ok though -- we had a chat, he got a disciplinary slip, we talking about how we can avoid that behavior in the future.
Annnnd.... (drumroll please)
- THE SHEETS ARE DONE!
And now the sheets are done, and I can finally get to some Young Writers work.
Monday, btw, is Read Across America, a.k.a. a huge literacy celebration, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss' birthday. We have to come to the office at 8 instead of the Chamber of Commerce for PT, and we have to come dressed like a children's book character, with said book in hand. I almost wish we were doing PT that way. It would be a hoot.
I'm going to be, as far as I know, Amelia Bedelia, although I MAY be the girl from Purple, Green and Yellow since the book is shorter. Except I look a lot more like Amelia Bedelia. Hmmm....I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO CHOOSE. It'll probably depend on whatever I can get at the last minute.
(Ok, no, that's a lie. It'll depend on whether or not Amelia is too long for little attention spans. Thoughts? Anybody?)
Then that afternoon I'm setting up for RAA (Read Across America), then that night I'm walking sixty second graders through the story to get to the other side of the room, where BB will be reading them Oh, the Places You'll Go! Then they all get to make their own "books." It's gonna be great. I guess technically I need two costumes, because at night I need to look like a Dr. Seuss character. What the hell do I do for that? I'd be little Sally Who but she's a blond.
But other than that, there's a lot of stuff I need to do...
NEED TO DO:
- Laundry (tonight)
- Walmart to cash check
- Buy hairbrush and costume before Monday (so I guess...tomorrow)
- ...
- [item missing]
Yeah I got totally sidetracked here...
I have this twitch by my eyebrow that will not go away, and it's driving me crazy. Maybe that's what's doing it.
I want a shower. And clean clothes. But at least I have groceries, that's awesome. I think I might treat myself to some Starbucks when I do my laundry. Mmmm.
Darnit, I forgot what I was going to say again.
I worked until midnight last night. Yup. Don't think I'm ever doing that again. I mean like, at the office until midnight. Thing is, it was with some good people and good music, so it was kind of fun even though we were a little tense sometimes. Uh...Rei wasn't happy. And I wasn't happy that I was there that long. But the actual being there wasn't that bad.
...what was I going to say? T______T;;;
I REMEMBER. BIKING. My bike is at the office. Without a car, it's been a little rough getting around, and I haven't been doing much of it...still haven't figured out how to get to Meadowcliff without paying for a taxi. I cannot for the life of me figure out their bus system. It's confusing as all heck. (Why can't they have a subway?)
So on the weekends when I have to get to the office, I bike down there. I started last Saturday, and on the way there I swear I thought I was going to drop dead off the bike. I walked it across half the bridge. The way back was much easier.
Today I went and it was so nice I actually overshot the Main Street bridge and ended up taking one two or three blocks farther. I still walked half the bridge, but mainly because it's uphill and it's a little difficult, not because I was ready to keel over. It feels so good. Oh man.
AND BIG ON TOKYO IN THE RIVERMARKET IS CARRYING BOBA TEA NOW. Their Green Tea boba smoothie is so, so, so good. <3 Heee.
So I decided that every Saturday after Rei leaves for work, I'm going to bike down there, treat myself to a boba tea, maybe lunch, window shop a little bit, check out the art gallery at the Cox Center, and bike back. It'll be good for me.
- How am I feeling?:
dirty
Today I worked a Saturday.
According to Andrea I'm great with the middle schoolers. I'm considering helping them out more often as a possible team leader. That will depend on how things go after my 'break'.
What is this break? Next Friday is our team service day. Half my stress, angst, and extra work has been spent on trying to find volunteers, designing murals, visiting service sites and giving presentations, whether impromptu or organized, to people I see every day or to complete strangers, trying to get more people to come.
And this next week is going to be the week from hell. Starfish starts, I find out Monday if Young Writers starts the week after (which it will if we got the grant), and that means no prep time, which means staying late to prep, except that Jason works so we may very well be pulled into a hustle in the last day beforehand, though luckily some was done this past week. I want to say a lot, and I guess considering the time we had and the tasks at hand at the time, a lot was. Except none of the murals have been stenciled in on the wall yet.
Hocrap, I wonder how long THAT will take, especially considering one of them is 26 feet long.
Yes. Feet.
Service is going to consist of painting some classrooms and murals at Promiseland Ministries; working with the Arkansas Food Bank; and, if weather permits, repainting some bleachers, benches and playground equipment at Hindman Park. And oh boy does it need help. I wish there was some way we could just put a new one in there, but on the site visit I learned a lot about what it takes just to put in a playground, at least in an AR park.
Long lesson short: bureaucracy sucks and red tape keeps even the simplest, best and sometimes necessary things from happening.
Anyway, yeah, I think a lot of my stress may be alleviated with that done. I'll still have RAA (Read Across America), but that work, even if it's on the most horrific deadline ever and with, possibly, minimal help, will be fun, possibly even relaxing; I'm using paint and bedsheets to reproduce the world of Doctor Seuss, primarily from Oh The Places You'll Go, in a room in the library so 2nd and 3rd graders can 'step into' the story. I was kind of proud of the idea, honestly.
And I'm excited for how it will look. Flat bright colors...heee...I can't think of any reason it won't be awesome...
Oh, and one of the sheets will be the little boy from the book peering out from the top of a truffula tree after climbing up there. That's totally a tribute to Devin X3
I forgot what an awesome social activist Seuss was in his books. *read through Yertle the Turtle and was gaping and giggling by the end* And I mean, he was so brilliantly obvious about it. You would think any adult who picked up some books would know right away. More kids should be reading more Seuss so we at least instill it in someone.
I warned you this would be random.
So also biggest reason next weekend will be great:
I get to see my baby holy effing yes!
(and by my baby, I mean Rei.)
No, I lied, actually I was pregnant and me being in City Year was actually a euphemism, like staying on my aunt's farm for nine months, except you know I don't have an aunt with a farm so.
Haha. But seriously.
OMFG. REI. REIREIREIREIREI FOR FOUR DAYS AND FOUR NIGHTS. TuT
If I try to explain how happy I am over this I'm pretty sure I'll explode, so I'll move on and let the enormous text speak for itself. I can't jump up and down and scream and squeal like a madwoman via text very well.
Uhhhh....what else tf was I going to say...
I'm pretty sure Jason is reading this now. Hi Jason! *waves*
Thinking about what I have to do tomorrow...need to finish the Starfish handbook. It's going to be a friggin awesome handbook, people. I was going to be outsourcing it to Rei so I didn't go crazy, but part of it is that her schedule isn't going to allow for it to be done on Monday, or it might but it would be in the late morning or the afternoon and that's cutting it way too close, and besides I have the handbooks to look at, and know more of the brand management stuff, and all that.
But yeah, I'd be relaxing right now but I'm thinking of that. I guess my complete lack of real weekend will have more than earned me my Rei-time.
*hums 'Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You'*
I have had the worst random urges to draw PA!John (PA = Paranormal Activity and I can guarantee most of you had no idea John was part of that at ALL, but I swear I'm not making it up OR on drugs OR getting it from a weird dream -- and hee, isn't her name pretty? *TOTAL MUSHY DWEEB*), but iunno in what or doing what, etc., etc., and I think part of it is just that I've been looking at
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lexi_nyanko's recent pictochat updates on her LJ. Damn her and her magical artness.
A while ago, for an early xmas present, I bought each of my Littles a composition notebook and told them to decorate it and write in it however they wanted -- as a diary, with letters to me, stories, anything -- so that we could learn more about each other, and that I was the only person who would read it. I got to give them back to them this week full of responses to their writing, doodles, random letters, etc., and in Carolina's, because she likes to cook, I put a recipe for the chocolate chip cookies that, before break, accidentally turned out so well. She boasted that she was going to write back, and that it would be our recipe book now.
It was so adorable.
(What you have to understand is that she and Brittney are much quieter than Deanna and Kiah, who sometimes monopolize conversations, not in a selfish way, but just because they're more talkative and know each other better. On top of that, Carolina was a latecomer to my little brood, and I wondered for a little while if she liked me at all. So I was ecstatic.)
And then they spent the first ten minutes of our hour together reading through the stuff I wrote and pointing it out to each other -- I was like "Guys! Guys! T^T I'm actually here now, you can look at those at home!" We made paper balloons this time, and Deanna and Kiah played with my hair... I'm bringing some actual rubber-band-y things so they can do whatever they want with it next time. They have fun and it gives me a chance to talk to Brittney and Carolina.
I've since discovered that I kind of like the way my hair looks in a high ponytail.
Before I leave I am working at least one evening in Obama's office dammit. And who got the last couple of caucuses? Who? Who? Huh?
THAT'S RIGHT B----ES! OBAMA DID!
There's this scholarship that popped up on Fastweb called Blogging for Change, and I'm seriously considering trying it after I'm out of City Year, as a way to use some of my biding-time filling out transfer apps and working on the nonprofit (Young Writers) with some people and on some writing, to maybe get a scholarship. $1000 is a pretty darn decent chunk of money.
I'm going to the oriental grocery tomorrow with Suni and stocking up on Bachelor rice and getting some fresh veggies and tofu. I've relearned that having a variety of "easy" food does nothing when you never have the energy to make it or the desire to eat it. What I need to do is keep some essentials that I can make work in a number of meal situations and moods -- eggs, potatoes, onions, tofu, seasonal fresh vegetables, rice -- so that I'm actually *happy* with what I'm eating, and not just eating out of pure necessity and hating every other bite.
And I want to indulge in something to drink other than water but the Tropicana Squeeze stuff I like is kind of expensive. And so is a lot of juice. I bought some V8Fusion, but the flavor I bought *really* sucks, and I'm choking it down because I don't want to waste it, it's good for me, and it's not water, but it kind of tastes like someone threw orangeade and carrot juice in the same bottle and shook it up.
Mmmm. Yummy.
We've started using a template for lesson plans and, as much as I dreaded it and hated the idea and swore it would stifle all my creativity, it really doesn't. It's basically a bunch of prompts. It kind of helps, actually.
I had the most random craving for a good lemonade right now.
Why do they call it -ade anyway? I really, really want an etymology dictionary. Maybe it can be a City Year graduation present. (Actually, the best City Year graduation present would be to find out that Mrs. Gravino likes my Young Writers idea, the school district likes the idea, and the Student-Learning Grant Fellowship likes the idea. You know. So I can circumvent this whole board of directors b.s. until I can get the idea public so that people come to me instead of me going to them.)
I'mma put up a picture of myself and my Littles in a private journal so it isn't violating their privacy or what we should and shouldn't be putting up.
Anyway. I think I'm out of random. Hm...yep. Random picture time, yay!
Also, been fiddling with what might be a pretty decent writing project. Can't decide yet. Hm...
OH OH OH. And they changed our tutoring schedules. Now I'm in mostly kindergarten (X3) but I don't get any class time...more incentive to get my degree I suppose, so I can have a classroom of my own. I still love all my kids. Oh, and Cory, the one who threw pencils at my face and overturned chairs early in the year? Now that Ms. Baker's class, his biggest problem is crying when she gets on him about something. He's actually very quiet and sweet.
She's a little harsh. We'll just say that sometimes there are some teachers that show us who we want to be, and some who show us what we don't want to be. I'm not saying that she's bad, just that I don't ever want to be as harsh as she is. (She yells. A lot.) But that's as far as we're going into that :D;;
Aaaah but the kindergarteners are so cute....and I've somehow managed to start an impromptu two-person fifth grade book discussion club. Huh.
Rei in six daaaaaays...
- How am I feeling?:
relaxingish
