I really do like to start entries with what I should be doing.  I should be writing a review of a journal article on gifted learners.  I have to write five of them by Friday.  I'm sort of done with one.  This is rather typical of how I operate.  Actually, that might be ahead of schedule ( Read more... )

I guess that today Wayne County had a children's mud throwing day.  And apparently that's newsworthy for channel 7.  The interviewed kids to see how fun throwing mud around is, and this little girl yelled "It's MY day!  it's MY day!" over and over.  She's going to be  a lot of trouble for someone sometime ( Read more... )

So those tests.  Much like Kelly's entry on the Ohio English test they were all completely random.  The truly easy basic skills at least had somewhat of a point.  If you can't do a little bit of math or comprehend a little bit of reading  you probably do not have a place in the classroom.  Do you know who else I think shouldn't have a place in the ( Read more... )

If there is something that I have a talent for it's turning an assignment that should take me one hour into a three-hour ordeal.  Well ordeal only if your definition of ordeal includes being distracted by Snood, Do the Right Thing, Everybody Hates Chris and checking your email every 6.5 minutes.

I still have not heard back about the CT which is ( Read more... )

Scene:  Patrick's living room; Tigers vs. Oakland A's on big screen tv ( Read more... )

I just had one of the most depressing conversations with my mom ever.  She's starting to sound weary like my grandma.  There's this tone that they both have now.  A tone that says "I really don't know what to do".  Ugh.  My aunts are giving my grandma trouble about caring for my grandpa who is sort of getting kicked out of the nursing home.  After ( Read more... )

Okay.  Rachel Dratch is killing me.  Just her voice and what she says.   (only those two very defining characteristics) She has a bit of a little girl voice.  Dr. Drew says that little girl voices are bad news.  Anyway, she's killing me.

I like my group for the big project.  One person is definitely way more motivated than anyone else has ever ( Read more... )

Saved by the Bell isn't so entertaining when you're 22 years old.  I can't believe how thinly veiled the Johnny Dakota reference to Johnny Depp is.  Or Slater's pants.  Or how Elizabeth Berkley looks older than me now when she's supposed to be 16.  Also Johnny Dakota is a statutory rapist.  Also, is pot smoking enough reason to break up with a ( Read more... )

I found out my placement for next year.  Forsythe Middle School in Ann Arbor.  Right after writing about how much I hated the middle school Conxion customers.  Gosh.  I'm excited and nervous about it.  I have heard that middle schoolers are extra challenging but also that the experience has helped people get jobs.  I'm sort of happy about it being ( Read more... )

School was not nearly as fun, interesting or fantastic as I had been hoping.  Despite being 10 minutes early for the continental breakfast (making me 40 minutes for the real fun) there were about 15 people already in the auditorium.  I, of course, sat in a whole new row because I am too much the wuss to actually sit next to someone.  Eventually all ( Read more... )