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Teacher Moment.

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 22:57:00 -0400

Today was the first time where I was able to notice the impact I am making in my students’ lives. A girl that had been in my class by scheduling error for the first month of school had recently been transferred into another language arts class and will occasionally poke her head in to ask a question, grab a piece of candy or just say hello. She isn’t disruptive, but rather a student who is always willing to lend an extra hand.

During fourth block’s twenty minutes of AR, she came to my door with tears in her eyes asking if she could talk to me because she felt I was the only teacher she trusted to talk to and she needed help calming down. My heart melted and I felt honored and remembered that these moments and bonds being built between teacher and student are exactly why I am in this profession. I helped her collect herself, gave her some witty, sarcastic words of advice and sent her to the bathroom to freshen up before she bravely headed back to class.

<3

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:27:12 -0500

God, this statement is so true. If you’re through with...

Sun, 09 Oct 2011 22:30:27 -0400

God, this statement is so true. If you’re through with someone: get over it. Who cares if a friend, stranger or anyone else goes for that person. All you have to do is remember that you were done with them for a reason.

Photo

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 12:48:35 -0400

My Parents Are Splitting Up. WTF.

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 20:10:00 -0400

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Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:53:43 -0400

True fact about me:

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:02:00 -0400

I don’t think I ever want to get married.

I don’t know if its my age, current mentality, experience or opinions of others in marriage, but I don’t find it to be very appealing. I think there is just too much baggage that comes with marriage. Their family, new expenses, the potential lifetime together, the possibility of cheating, divorce, are they really even “the one”? I just don’t see why you can’t be with that one person forever without the legal written document of commitment. It seems that the more official something is, the more complicated it becomes until it absolutely repulses you. And, let’s be real, the very last thing I want to be to someone is repulsive.

Grades.

Sun, 21 Aug 2011 23:41:20 -0400

I found out my grades the other day. First semester of grad school is officially completed and I have a 4.0. Damn, it feels good to be a smarty pants. Six more classes and two more semesters until I graduate and can search for a real life adult teaching job. I haven’t been this excited/proud of myself in awhile.

Jack’s Mannequin <3 I got to see one of my favorite...

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 13:43:00 -0400

Jack’s Mannequin <3

I got to see one of my favorite bands out in Canandaigua last night. Andrew McMahon was amazing as usual and put on a panty-dropping show.

“You get in my car
Where its warm
You cannot forget
skin new
Hands true
My hands all over you
so what’s another night
The seat’s rolled back, they can’t see
The rain’s the rain
Some air’d be good for you”

"It’s funny. Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 23:31:22 -0400

““It’s funny. Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.””

- The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger

I wish that everyone was aware of this. It really disgusts me...

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:11:58 -0400

I wish that everyone was aware of this. It really disgusts me just how rude some people can be. I understand joking between friends, but there is a thing as taking it too far.

True fact about me:

Sun, 24 Jul 2011 13:11:12 -0400

When I’m drunk, I want to kiss something. Vegetable, animal, mineral: It doesn’t matter so long as it doesn’t talk back too much. I want to eat your face and then a meatball sandwich. In that exact order. Both will give me a stomachache in the morning though.

My Day in A Picture. All day inside the god damn library...

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:43:00 -0400

My Day in A Picture.

All day inside the god damn library searching for books according to categories in the Dewey Decimal system when SUNY Oswego’s library doesn’t even categorize their books that way. So needless to say, I had a god damn ball. One thing I am grateful for is the fact that about twelve hundred fans were blasting all day long because outside, in the sun, is a joke. Why does it need to be 90+ degrees outside ever? I’m hot and sticky no matter what time of day and it is an unappealing look for me. Hell, it’s an unappealing look for everyone I don’t care who you are.

"You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news..."

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:07:04 -0400

““You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.””

- Anne Lamott

11:11PM

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 23:11:50 -0400

…make a wish <3

Change

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 23:11:26 -0400

It’s time for some change in my life. After I graduated in December I felt like I was stuck at a standstill I’ll admit. Kind of a “what’s next” moment in my life. I knew I now had the power to go out and search for a real adult job, but also had to face the facts that once I acquire said job I’d still have to make time to go back and get my Master’s degree. That’s where becoming a teacher gets you. You’re never truly done with school. After your undergrad, you’ve got seven years to get a Master’s degree in something, so what better time then this awkward “what’s next” period in my struggle towards adulthood?

It’s been going great so far. One class completed, with an A might I add, and three more are in the process as we speak. I have one complaint though. I hate my online class. Not the actual class, but the whole concept of it being online. I don’t feel as connected as I normally do while I’m IN a classroom. You can’t get a feel for the professor, what the assignments should truly be like, no peers to roll your eyes at or about and the due dates seem to sneak up about twelve times faster than normal. Have no fear though, I will survive! And succeed, even if it kills me. Really though, I almost bashed my head into my Mac today just trying to figure out what type of “blueprint” I was supposed to make to better plan out my assessment for my make believe class that I’m supposed to be testing on The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

Wish me luck! If you don’t hear from me before the class is over, Aug 12th, send out a search party for my remains. At least the day after my last set of classes I get to see Jack’s Mannequin and Guster. A concert like that proves to me that there IS indeed a God.

I NEED MORE CHANGE THOUGH, grad school is awesome, but something more is bound to come my way, right?! RIGHT?!

yes please, make me feel like I’m the only girl in the...

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 22:58:36 -0400

yes please, make me feel like I’m the only girl in the world if you’d like. I won’t stop a voice or a face like that.

Today is the anniversary:

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 22:35:00 -0400

Back in 1951, the novel “The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger is first published by Little, Brown and Co.

Happy 60th Birthday “The Catcher in the Rye”! You’ve been a real treat.

Crisp, weather like this can make me happy anytime. Hurry up autumn, I'm sick of waiting.

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 22:29:11 -0400

I could not be more of a nerd or more excited for this movie to...

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 23:27:11 -0400

I could not be more of a nerd or more excited for this movie to come out. I read the book three years ago at SUNY Oswego in my Children’s Literature class that I took as an undergrad and loved it. Don’t be put off by the size of the book. It’s a quick read with more than enough pictures that are all sketched by the author himself.

thedailywhat:

Third Trailer of the Day: Hugo, the Martin Scorsese-helmed, Johnny Depp co-produced adaptation of Brian Selznick’s The Invention of Hugo Cabret, gets its first official trailer.

Synopsis:

Hugo tells the story of an orphan boy living a secret life in the walls of a Paris train station. With the help of an eccentric girl, he searches for the answer to a mystery linking the father he recently lost, the ill-tempered toy shop owner living below him and a heart shaped lock, seemingly without a key.

The film, which stars Asa Butterfield, Chloë Moretz, Ben Kingsley, Jude Law, Sacha Baron Cohen, and Christopher Lee, is set to hit theaters November 23.

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