Next to the fire lay the product of little effort ( Read more... )

Every month the Sun magazine shares the submissions of some of its readers on specific topics. The deadline for the "Fights" topic is the 1st of January. Seeing how that's tomorrow, I don't think there is anyway I can snail mail this off to North Carolina in the next couple of hours (I'm in France). So, this is just practice. Feel free to respond ( Read more... )

Overwhelmed ( Read more... )

It all started when I left my phone at home by accident. Instead of meeting Franny and Jon at the Mom Park cinema entrance, I figured they were already inside and bought my ticket. I looked for them when I walked in but didn't see them and took my seat ( Read more... )

last night I went to bed at 3am (sounds like back in the day...) and woke up at 6 thinking I would assess my health, fell promptly back asleep because I was woozy and didn't wake up again until my program director called me at 1pm to tell me she was coming by for me to sign papers that will hopefully allow me to be paid by the elementary school ( Read more... )

Today there were some good things today and some really NOT good things. Let's just say that I was stuck with both halves of the 6th grade class for TWO periods in a row and that from the start I made them write sentences -my first mistake was punishing them and the second was making them write far too many- and at the break I didn't let them ( Read more... )

Up until just 5 minutes ago, I had not more than 10 minutes of Internet usage at a time, and it was at my school where I had to share with other teachers. Most days I arrive too late to school to even use the computer ( Read more... )

(Budapest, Hungary ( Read more... )

So I am still in school. Life is exciting. Our economy is getting messed up, people are losing their jobs all over the place, and I feel OBLIGATED to stay at my job and stay in school. Better to rack up debt and get an education than to go abroad and satisfy my curiosity?? I have no idea what the best idea/plan is. The saddest thing is knowing that ( Read more... )

I officially hate stupid planning, something I am guilty of doing, often. in this particular instance, I have poorly planned my trip to New Mexico State University to visit Marcela, Sam, and Sujan