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Eureka, I've found it!
I have finally found my car!!!! I LOVE it! A 2003 charcoal gray Pontiac Vibe! Only 32,000 miles on it, and rated as a "Very Good" car by Consumer Reports, listed as a Recommended Buy. The advantage to this car is that it is twin to the Toyota Matrix. It has a Toyota engine! Perhaps this is the reason the car is so highly rated ( Read more... ) -
New Car! for me anyway
I'm getting a new car! Yay ( Read more... ) -
Everything sucks
Sounds like my car is totaled and I'll have to be looking for a new car. This may be a blessing in disguise in the long term, but in the short term, it just plain sucks. How is anyone supposed to actually make money and save it this day in age? Especially when you're just starting out, trying to find a job, and have been going to school all this ( Read more... ) -
Looking for an end to the madness
Life has pretty much made a complete 180 for me lately. Sunday I had a car accident on the expressway (I-275), in which the minivan I ended up hitting got totaled, and the jury is still out on mine, only because it was mostly cosmetic damage but my car is also 13 years old, so it's not worth much. Both I and the other driver were very fortunate- ( Read more... ) -
Exhausting week
Not much to write about. I've been very busy working this week. I worked Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday at the store in the pharmacy as a tech. I had no idea that all of Saline was going to send us their prescriptions this week. EEK! And ten hour shifts spent almost entirely on your feet and very tiring and painful. 3 days was more than ( Read more... ) -
My First Interview
Had it over the phone tonight with a principal from NC, at a high school near Greensboro (3rd largest city in NC). I have to say, I think it went really well! What may have helped me was looking over my portfolio beforehand, remembering some of the lessons I've taught, reading my letters of rec. and student teaching evals, and looking at the ( Read more... ) -
Escape
This weekend, S and I went to visit Chris and Danielle and their new baby Isaac. Isaac was an excellent baby- very quiet and cute, the way all babies should be! What lucky parents C and D are! But if you think after visiting them that I want a baby of my own right now, you'd be dead wrong. If anything, the visit only convinced me that I am in ( Read more... ) -
Better Days
Lots of exciting things happening lately! Yesterday I had to sub for the school I student taught at- the bio teacher across the hall from mine. It went very well. She has a student teacher this term though, so I was only in charge until the student teacher got back from her flight up north. I did a pretty good job though! Much better than the ( Read more... ) -
2 or more posts in a week? She MUST be bored!
Yep, you're right, I am. And VERY restless ( Read more... ) -
Puzzled in Michigan
My mom told me about an interesting article in today's paper regarding new teachers. It said that our state's colleges are producing a surplus of teachers, and many of them are looking for jobs in states with teacher shortages(Arizona, Florida, and the Carolinas). However, one government official commented that the fact is, most of the teachers ( Read more... )