So, what I want to know is, who slipped the Adderall into my cough syrup? Because to go from complete lethargy (sleeping nearly 24 hours a day for four days straight) to this thirteen hours of certifiable productivity is damn near impossible. Work from 8-1 and then 8 straight hours of projects and finals-that-adhered-to-the-honor-code? What in ( Read more... )

Kids are hysterical. Really. I don't have enough time in the day to relay all of the stories about what my kids do during the day, but here's a classic:

Jamie "You Can Call me Victoria for Short" Eighth Grader loves music. What I didn't know was that she loved to dance. At the DARE graduation picnic today, our girl Jamie/Victoria definitely ( Read more... )

T-minus 8 days until tonsil surgery, and evidently I'm getting a little practice. No, I'm not dead. Thanks to everyone who's been calling these past couple of days -- I'm sorry I haven't answered, but I've been sleeping, oh, for about three days straight thanks to the codeine in my cough syrup. So much for the soldier, who tried to party it up ( Read more... )

So really. Today was definitely up there in the worst-days-this-semester list. It's right up there with the day I got pulled over on the way to school while I was fever-sick. Today, however, I feel it was the integrity police. I'm so glad you can trust a school principal to keep what you say in confidence. Gee thanks, Bruce Prescott ( Read more... )

So, supposedly college is about blowing off responsibility to hang out with your friends. I don't experience that side of college very often, but after a long day of special olympics and alabama history, I decided that I'd earned it. Minutes after I was released from class, I made it over to Skinny's house, where they'd bought a couple of cases ( Read more... )

Yes, I have a thankless job. Yes, I complain about it all the time, how I’m not really a college student anymore, etc. I declare about every other day that I want to drop out of the program. But I’ll be damned if today wasn’t the most honest, most remarkable way of looking at a child… And I think I need days like today to remind me that it's ( Read more... )

“Anyplace is better; starting from zero got nothin’ to lose. Maybe we’ll make something - me myself I’ve got nothing to prove.”

( only if you dare: consider yourself warned. )

"We've worked hard; it's so hard to believe that it's all come full circle."

I was tapped for XXXI today, and it's such an incredible thing...to say that I'm giddy is, well, an understatement. It's an honor to be named as an independent, and it's just so nice to be recognized for the hard work I've done for three years.

Wow.

( because I'm a loser, and can't do something productive while I'm waiting for dinnertime to roll around. )

I'm two semesters away from an English major, should I choose to drop out of MAP. Why did I even let myself -look- at my old degree requirements? What on earth am I thinking?