As I close in on yet another year, which I measure by summers as summers include my turning another year older, I have returned to LiveJournal to type my usual reflection.

I've been going through a bit of a renaissance in keeping an actual written journal with a fancy pen and all, so I feel a bit weird about making long entries on here. In ( Read more... )

Cobb County has canceled school today because we here in the South don't know how to handle such conditions. I went to bed before the notice was posted, so my alarm still rang this morning. Since I'm unable to go back to sleep easily, I figured I might as well post this long-awaited update ( Read more... )

OK, as some of you already know, I'm not coming home for Thanksgiving. I'm going to be doing a little work at the Cafe, but mostly I'll be doing homework. Thanks, professors! I couldn't have done this without you! *grumblegrumble ( Read more... )

This week is almost over. That's all that matters.

I realized that there are a few of you who only hear from me on Livejournal, so I ought to post something. Here's my quick update. I have to go right back to doing some work. Sorry

Internship:
-Haven't killed any children
-Have actually had some great teaching experiences
-Would still prefer to teach high school, but I believe if I had to teach middle ( Read more... )

(Originally posted at my grad school blog: kpedro.wordpress.com)

While working on my Personal Literacy Evaluation for ENGL7750, I got to thinking about my own "unconventional" literacies. The only one that I could come up with that I could talk about at length was video games. Mind you, I'm not a great player, but I do love to play. I'll try ( Read more... )

Today is my first day at my internship. I'm interning in a 7th grade English/Language Arts classroom. For the first couple weeks I will observe, but my university supervisor will come in at some point to observe me 3-4 times during the semester. I'm not quite sure when the first observation is, but I will be stumbling all over the place. Luckily, I ( Read more... )

Army Boy the Magnificent Asshole solicited me for relationship advice and I shot off a wordy fuck-you response which prompted him to make a clarifying statement that I actually responded to in a not-so-mean manner, but still ended with a big fuck-you response.

The murkiness of the above sentences testifies to the continuing strength of my fury. It ( Read more... )

My coworkers at Barnes & Noble got me a cake for my last day before I become a seasonal employee. I am full of cake. I need other people to help me finish off the last of this cake. It's basically some sort of white cake with a layer of chocolate mousse in the middle. It is very sweet and delicious but mostly it is of a large quantity ( Read more... )

There's nothing quite like a belated gift that arrives just in time to cheer you up when you've been extremely bummed out, especially over financial worries and material guilt. Kristine, who many of you know as my closest-thing-to-a-sister friend, sent me a late package with a data CD of her favorite punk music, a Nirvana t-shirt, three buttons ( Read more... )