BOCES started on monday, and of course, I am already enamored by the amazing power that these kids have over me. They literally keep me in stitches, especially for the moments in lessons that no teacher can ever prepare for ( Read more... )

You can want to grow up all you want, but you cannot will it to happen. You grow up because you have to do it. You do it because you are a human, an animal. Animals adapt, and that's what you have to do. You grow up because you have to do it because if you don't adapt you die. And it sucks the whole time, but once you're grown you don't look back ( Read more... )

Seaside happened for two days this week, and was well worth it ( Read more... )

Dan and Leah's very rainy but very cute wedding was this past weekend. Weddings make Joe and I love each other, it seems. Drinks, reunions with old friends, and of course because it's us, a few disasters. Fun times had by all.


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Joe and I played the role of a real couple via the Jersey Shore last week. It was our first real life vacation together. So, of course, God decided to haze us ( Read more... )

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1. The new Dave album is effing great, and one show this summer might not be enough ( Read more... )

Everything I've ever felt about school can be learned from this photograph.
It was taken on my first day of Sacred Heart preschool in 1989.
I was three years old, and apparently a sage.
I knew what I was in for.


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I wish my boyfriend was going to win american idol tonight ( Read more... )