And I've been up for a half-hour. The last couple of nights I've been waking up around 4 am and haven't been able to go back to sleep. It's really getting old - but thankfully it's spring break. However, if I wake up with a headache on the right side of my head one more time, I'm probably going to see a doctor. I don't understand why I ( Read more... )

...I'm finishing up my internship and will be graduating in about a month! I haven't posted here in quite some time and I don't expect to continue to post here...but I was browsing this old journal and decided to make a new entry. I didn't intentionally neglect this place, I just got really busy with the internship and pretty much forgot about ( Read more... )

Wow, it's been a long time! It is exactly one month after my 22nd birthday. About a month ago I was out "celebrating" - if you may - with some really awesome and amazing friends. It was a birthday I will always remember, despite the fact that nearly everyone we went out with threw up that night. Maybe that is what is so memorable about it? ( Read more... )

Lately my life has been more boring than it ever has been...yet I've found myself struggling with more things than ever before. The reason I have let certain things bother me is partly because they are bothering someone else. Why should anyone be bothered by my relationship status if I'm not? Why should anyone hope that I get a boyfriend soon if ( Read more... )

Yesterday I did my second micro-teach and it went.....incredibly well! My first one was alright and my clinical instructor told me that I did great for my first time (he's probably seen some screwed up stuff from first time teachers, haha)....but this second lesson was just awesome. The kids loved it - they liked me (since they think I designed ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is the day that I have my first ever student teaching experience! I am teaching third period of an 8th grade American History class. I've got my lesson plan all ready to go - and I'm so nervous :( I've been having nightmares about this day...in my dreams something always goes terribly wrong. I've done a thorough job of planning...now I ( Read more... )

I won in both of my Fantasy Football leagues for week one! And who says girls can't play Fantasy Football? Those boys must feel like suckers losing to a girl! :p ( Read more... )

On Saturday night (following our outing to the USF game and then Peabody's), Christina was in a very terrible car accident. She was on her way home to Lakeland when she collided head-on with another vehicle on Highway 98. She's currently in critical condition at Lakeland Regional Medical Center. She has two broken legs, a broken elbow, among ( Read more... )

This is my final semester at USF as a regular student since next semester I will be a full-time intern. Currently I'm taking my last three courses (most of which are relatively easy) and one of my classes is my "micro-teach". It's a field experience class that works like this: Each student is assigned a school to teach at. Along with the school ( Read more... )

This will probably be a pretty long post. I'm not going to divulge too many details but I feel like I HAVE to at least briefly talk about what went on this past weekend. Last Monday we had a guy (his name is Josh) come in from out of town to do some engineering work in our building (sizing us up to have fire sprinklers installed). He was here ( Read more... )