Oh! Look! I'm still avoiding the same essay I was avoiding when I updated last! Isn't that something ( Read more... )

I was notified about my first block of student teaching and I've been placed Very locally and in a 5th grade classroom!! I'm super thrilled about this news because a friend of mine who was placed before me has to drive an hour to get to her school every day and then another hour home every day. I don't!! Yea!! We are at these schools from 8 till ( Read more... )

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Halloween has snuck up and I haven't had time to decorate or celebrate really. It's sad. Next year will have to be mega huge to make up for it. Even my costume is only sorta put together. I'm gonna be a construction worker complete with those suspenders with the tape measure on them. Very exciting when flea market finds become costumes. I'm ( Read more... )

Got stellar night of sleep last night complete with pleasant dreams about horses of my own. This was probably mostly due to the fact that I went to counseling appointment and had a good long chat with a lady named Nancy. I told her a lot o' shit and I only threatened to cry a couple of times. She commented that I sounded like an idealist and ( Read more... )

apparently I can give up on sleeping anytime soon. great. fine. it will leave so much time for other hobbies. like reading looong books for example. staring into space during class, pursuing those increasingly paranoid thoughts to their origin and back. becoming hysterical and snapping at people.
oh the fun I'll have.

Still can't sleep. Had an almost sleepless night last night and had to get up at 7 this morning anyway. Can't sleep tonight even though I was so exhaustated I went to bed at 8. Have to get up at 6 and can't sleep.
Head is swimming.
I'm going back to sleeping with Schubert

Got another freaking B+ on my essay. Damn it. He didn't like my title, I had a comma error and I apparently made wide generalizations. Freaking A ( Read more... )

Attended campus showing of wonderful movie called _In America_ last night. Was phenomenal. I must own this film. (I know I say that a lot but really! It was good!) I would highly recommend it ( Read more... )

As the national headlines reflected the manufactured tempest over the mayor of San Francisco telling the president to "stay away" after he reversed himself on the issue, Rick Tompkins, candidate for the Libertarian Party presidential nomination, condemned the grandstanding of both Bill Clinton and Bob Dole on the subject of "gay marriages ( Read more... )