How much of trying to survive is not listening so one can pull the ignorance card ( Read more... )

I haven't posted in a while so I thought I'd do the update thing. I am defintely here at the pool on this fine Thursday morning. Ben leaves at noon to pick up his sisters in Iowa. I'm a little sad to not be accompanying him, but I understand Erika will be emotional and doesn't want strangers around to see her in such a state ( Read more... )

Have you ever declared to yourself as your teacher wrote problems on the board, "this isn't math or economics, it's hieroglyphic or some other ancient linear alphabet!" This is how I felt in class today. The words coming from Professor Deal's mouth made sense, but his explanation didn't translate any of the numbers on the board. It doesn't help ( Read more... )

Interlochen Internship = filled ( Read more... )

"There is a tangible feeling that spring smells evoke. That earthy, dank smell triggers in me thoughts of new life bursting from the ground and energy renewed. Unfortunately, from what I hear, the cold breath of wintry frost is going to sweep across us once more before Mother Earth is reborn at last ( Read more... )

Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do ( Read more... )

I cried in class today. Or I started crying in class. Because I missed class on Wednesday, I did my presentation today. One of the requirements was to connect the story with something else we read for class or with our own lives. A line in the reading really stuck out to me "these things too will pass". I told the class this line made me think ( Read more... )

It's raining again. I can hear it hitting the window when the wind blows strongly ( Read more... )

The second candidate taught class today. Mark from Fargo, North Dakota. The class talked about one of Shakespeare's sonnets. The most famous one about his mistress not being the typical goddess. The candidate asked me how I would feel if someone called my skin white as snow. Well, I associate snow with cold and so I replied, "I think the ( Read more... )

I must be special... Ben and I went on a double date with his friend and his friend's wife. What's the next step? Family? When I told him my mom asked about him today, he said that his mother knows about me as do his sisters. His sisters told him it was about time... Whatever that means. *smiles* He told me I remind him of his sister. She ( Read more... )