I got into the NYC Teaching Fellows. I'm going to teach Biology or General Science, probably somewhere in the Bronx. I am already researching schools and principals. This is so exciting!

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It is so enthusiastic sometimes and so innocent early on. Most of the really depressing entries are either private or remain unwritten. It does give me a handle on myself somewhat. I am going to try to update more, only because as I read through some older, short entries, I remembered so vividly the days I'd described, not in a sad reminiscent ( Read more... )

I haven't updated in 41 weeks. I have changed a lot, perhaps more than in any one 41 week stretch of the past. I am not always happy, per se, but happiness doesn't seem like a worthy goal anymore. I am not content. I'm not satisfied. But I know what to do, and I am doing it ( Read more... )

and he doesn't mind.

A mile and a half tonight.

I went running last night for the first time in ages. I felt good yesterday night, probably because I broke my coffee fast, and on the way home I decided that I would run just one lap of the track, and so I did, and I felt fine. I was hardly even winded, so I ran a whole mile. Sort of embarassingly, I think that I can say that this is the first ( Read more... )

This is a depressing valentine's day for me, and my birthday is coming up soon, which is always sort of sad, so I just bought myself a trip to Arizona in May. I've wanted to try travelling alone for a while, especially in the Southwest. I don't know if I'll like it or not. I got a cheapish flight, a bed in a hostel dorm in Flagstaff, and a ( Read more... )

Today my 'department' all went to a tea cafe in Park Slope and worked from our laptops. It was really nice and relaxing. They played good music all day. I am glad I didn't have to go into my office. The air always smells so poluted in Manhattan ( Read more... )

The cats are great. They both sleep quietly in my bed all night. The kitten still trys to nurse, and her mother gently swats her off or else gets up and walks away. It is very cute ( Read more... )