Friday:

On Friday morning, I went with Lauren to New Brunswick where her grandma picked us up from the train station.  Her grandma is my new favorite grandma outside of my own two.  She has got to be the biggest spoiler in the history of grandmothers.  We went to Seaside where we ate "shore food", a tradition Lauren and her grandmother have shared ( Read more... )

     I was making great time.  It took me an hour and ten minutes to fly from Rochester to LaGuardia Airport.  I then proceeded to find the bus that took me 45 minutes to get into Manhattan.  The bus stopped at an uptown 1 & 9 subway station, which was convenient.  All I had to do was take the train downtown to the Christopher Street Station and I ( Read more... )

My little brother is graduating from high school tomorrow.  OK, so he is not my little brother because he is about a foot taller than I am and has experienced more hardships and adult situations than I had when I was his age.  But to me, he is still 7 years old, which makes me 12.  Sean worshipped the ground I walked on when we were kids.  This is ( Read more... )

I bet she would have been a really great teacher... cynical yet always speaking in a language so eloquent and rich her students would savor it each time she spoke.  If only someone could have done something, or rather if everyone had done something, it might have been prevented... well at least for the time being.  Like my professor Joyce said, if ( Read more... )

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FIRSTS
First job: Wet sanding pottery for Briggs
First screen name: blue335920 --- dumb i know
First self purchased tape: Janet Jackson - janet.
First funeral: My Grampa's sister, Betty.  She died of breast cancer. 
First piercing/tattoo: Ears at 2 months
First credit card: VISA
Age at first kiss: 15
Middle name of the first person you slept with: McCabe

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I started drinking when I went to college, as most everybody does, but it took until I was of legal age to drink that I really appreciated the happy hour phenomenon.  See, before I was 21, it was all about getting drunk and making an appearance at a certain party.  When I became a senior in college, I started going to happy hour at the Vital in ( Read more... )

I think this place is making me want to be a better teacher.  I really am starting to love the program and I am meeting amazing people.  Today in class we had to give group book presentations and everyone in the class got into it -- which was completely unexpected.  I have found throughout my education that when students had to give presentations ( Read more... )

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     My apartment building is really part of a quad of four buildings with a courtyard and playground in the middle.  Along the outsides of the buildings are small shrubs that apparently need daily watering as the sprinklers are always running when I walk by.  The playground in the center of the four buildings is amazing.  There is a sandbox bigger ( Read more... )