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Can your dead friends guilt trip you from beyond the grave?
It's possible that yesterday, I might not have thought about Mike at all. Or if I did, it was insufficiently traumatic to cause any breakdowns that I remember today. So today it appears he decided to remind me. I got a text from Cici about him. I signed on to LiveJournal and a reminder for his birthday had popped up on my dashboard. And then there ( Read more... ) -
Holy shit, you guys
I GOT A FREAKING 4.0 ( Read more... ) -
Into the sunset
I just finished my case study synthesis and sent it off into the world. So ends the toughest semester of my schooling so far. Worse than the one where I had a new boyfriend, was working part time, taking French IV, lighting, costume design and directing and directing my first show and commuting from Austin to San Marcos every day. I didn't seem to ( Read more... ) -
Turkey Day Musings from an English Student's Mind
Odd that Thanksgiving is an American holiday, because it's such a British concept, a day devoted to giving thanks. Although I guess when we came up with it, we had until very recently been Brits ( Read more... ) -
Yupdate
I'm in class. We created teacher blogs. I'm done. It's freezing. My skin is dry and itchy. I want a cheeseburger. I think I've conditioned myself to want a cheeseburger after this class, because there is a Burger King just up the road and the last few times I have stopped for a quick late dinner on my way home so when I get home I am not distracted ( Read more... ) -
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Oh, my god, I have never been this tired for this long. No more than five hours of sleep every night this week, and this morning I have to try to have a rational, constructive conversation with a coworker with whom I have uncomfortable history about behaviors that are undermining my efforts in my classroom and holding kids back ( Read more... ) -
Practical Knowledge Acquired This Fall Thus Far
1. After buying textbooks, wait until the semester starts before you spend your left-over student loan money on car repairs and back-to-school-clothes and dental work. Some professor will always add a required textbook or other material you can't afford ( Read more... )