I do this every year, and I think it's a pretty good tradition. I set the goal of reading 50 books this year and I surpassed it. Not by much, but I did read over 50 books. Here's the comprehensive list; again, a little of everything. I revisited books from my childhood that I missed, tried to keep up on the YA fiction, as well as read the staple ( Read more... )

I'm student teaching now. Holy shit.

This summer is going along swimmingly. I get to take one full week off from Hellmark next week *huzzah* My sister's graduation party was Saturday & that was a lot of fun. It was good seeing folks again. Kyle & I watched a MST3K'ed version of "LotR: The Fellowship of the Ring" last night & it was hilarrrrr-ious. "Legolas is a beautiful princess." ( Read more... )

Hooray! The semester is over and my last summer of fun has begun. I'm so excited about student teaching at Birch Run. I think it's a perfect fit, and my host teacher seems like a pretty fun lady who knows her stuff. I've got Honors 9 English and English 11 which :woot: is American English! Kyle has been at flying lessons for over a month now. I was ( Read more... )

Augh, no more lesson plans. I hate SVSU lesson plans. It's like writing "War and Peace" everyday. What's the point? It makes me want to get the kiddies in a circle and just sing songs all hour. I'm sure they'd learn more that way. Now I'm awake and can't sleep (too much adrenaline!) I'm getting really excited to go to Philly. I won't be there long ( Read more... )

I just picked up and played my clarinet for the first time in 2 or 3 years. It was pretty fun and I didn't sound too bad tonewise either (despite playing my self proclaimed "shitty" plastic clarinet. I don't know where my wood one is, it's around though). I decided that I'd like to get back into playing because I definitely see it as an activity ( Read more... )

This weekend, despite the weather madness, was awesome. Kyle came to town on Saturday and we went to Genghi's (I had been having sushi cravings for over a week!) When we got there, there was a major wait, but after a half hour or so, we got a table (minus the crazy hat fella). It was awhile before we got food, but it was fun. We got to chill, talk ( Read more... )

Well, it finally happened. I've been waiting all my academic life for it to happen, and it finally happened. My teacher finally categorized me into the "bull-shit-for-2-and-a-half-hours-didn't-get-anything-done" group. Last week our group had to do this project and we got all class to work on it. We however, were smart, delegated the work and ( Read more... )

Space alien poop is making me sick, sick, sick! I felt like Charlie Brown last night because my head felt at least 3 times bigger than my body. I'm feeling a bit better now, and I'm going to go into Hallmark and sneeze on all the cards.

Well, it's finally happened. People are having conversations with their spouses on the subject of how I look/act like Dr. Rich. It was bound to happen.