Well! I'm finally making my triumphant return to lj posting after an extended absence. I've been reading my flist, and I've been active on my various communities, but it's been awhile since I've posted here. So what have I been up to since then? I've been working! Things are going really well at my job, and I'm picking up more clients and more ( Read more... )

Back with more meme post-age! This is actually going to be a fairly short entry (by my standards, of course).

Day 03: Your views on drugs and alcoholI'm ashamed to say that I haven't really thought as much about this topic, which is why I think this is going to be a short entry. I think it's because issues related to drugs/alcohol have not ( Read more... )

So, I started that meme awhile ago, and I'm just now getting around to Day 2. If this surprises you, well, you may not know me very well. :-P But let's give me some credit--I started this meme right before starting a week in which I put in 16 hours at the first week of my new job, all my final projects were due, and I was having my last day of ( Read more... )

I see a lot of people doing these extended memes, and I never really thought I'd have the patience for them, but I'm going to give this 30-day meme a try! It helps that all the meme topics are things related to my daily life--I think the reason I was never interested in the other memes is that most of them were about fandoms and, even though I'm ( Read more... )

Tonight I was thinking about the world, as I do. It's so easy to get into a mindset of "there are so many challenges and injustices and devastations going on, I don't know where to start". And I do get that way a lot, because I just feel so strongly about everything all the time. But there is something good to remember, even when it feels like more ( Read more... )

Tonight I watched The Secret Garden, a movie I love more every single time I see it. I totally want to dress just like Mary in this movie. And the movie makes me want to ride horses and play with skipping-ropes (honestly, why don't I own a jump-rope? I don't care that I'm 23, this is an oversight on my part) and make friends with animals and ( Read more... )

WARNING: In this entry there is a brief mention of some stuff related to womanly things that occur appx. once a month. If you are uncomfortable with the fact that I am a woman and therefore the forces of nature converge upon my uterus once a month, feel free to skip that part. I promise I don't actually talk about the event, just something related ( Read more... )

Sometimes you have a couple days when your mind goes all wacky, as I have the past couple of days. Then you have a really, really good day to make up for it. :-)

My mail today:
-a dance magazine
-a Netflix (The Secret Garden-the amazingly nerdtastic shirts I picked out for Caitlin to order me for Christmas ( Read more... )

Only a few more to go! And today we're talking about ( travel! )

Tomorrow I start my teaching practicum in a real high school special ed classroom. For one full day a week, 7:15-2:30 (or whenever I'm done) on Wednesdays, I will be helping in a classroom. I'll write lesson plans, teach some lessons, assist the teacher, write a bunch of papers, and do all that general classroom stuff that real teachers do. Up ( Read more... )