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Teaching is a learning experience
I am teaching biology at a Junior College this semester for the first time. It is such a learning experience. I just can't believe everything that the students try to get away with. Their second test is tomorrow and I have had two students email me with their sob stories about why they are going to have to miss it (and BTW their sob stories were ( Read more... ) -
Interview!!
1. How did you and your husband meet ( Read more... ) -
Runner in Training
I am so excited. I just signed up for a Women's Running Clinic that is for beginning runners to work together to run a 5K. I have had a goal of running a 5 K for a long time and though I am in pretty good shape, on my own I am too lazy to force myself to run 3 miles straight. I get bored (and tired) after the first mile or so. I am hoping this ( Read more... ) -
Shawn's Cheesy Valentine
Now that Shawn has been surprised with his Valentine's present I can share with you guys what I got him. Let me preface this by saying once again that we are in two separate states for Valentine's day so I had a little hurdle to cross. But thanks to Papa John's I crossed it. I had 2 heart shaped pizzas delivered to our house at lunch time for ( Read more... ) -
National Booty Day
It has been a long time since I posted! I started teaching Biology at a Jr. College at night and I can not believe how much time that is taking. I am running around nonstop these days ( Read more... ) -
Merry Christmas LJ Land!
Merry Christmas to all as yet another Christmas day closes. I hope everyone had a great Christmas with family and friends. I also hope we all had a chance to reflect on what this holiday is really about and why we celebrate it. I love Christmas and I know that I would love Christmas the same if there were no presents involved. There is just ( Read more... ) -
The countdown is on!
I am getting very excited because I have only 2 more days of work before Shawn and I are headed out on our Christmas extravaganza! I can't wait. We leave Saturday for my parent's farm in Kentucky. We will stay there for a couple of days then drive to East TN to visit the rest of the family - grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins. Then we will be ( Read more... ) -
My Xmas Stocking
Give me give me give me!
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Blood money
We are having a blood drive at work next week and one of the guys I work with called the organization that will be collecting our blood to find out what they did with the goods after they were sucked from our arms. He found out that this organization is actually a business (meaning not a nonprofit organization) and sells the blood to hospitals for ( Read more... ) -
What do you want for Christmas?
I was just sitting here being all nice and selfish thinking about what I would like to get for Christmas. I swear as I get older it is harder to name things I want because everything I want now is so expensive! Why do toys get more expensive as you get older ( Read more... )