Long because it should Be

Here I am..months after my last post listening to my 4654 songs on iTunes roll through a pretty decent shuffle. Yeah, a lot has happened in that time, not like there wasn't anything to write about. I mean, I was student teaching so there was always a constant flow of things I could put up on here, but I just never took the time to actually sit down and type them up.

So I guess what I could do is offer some brief recaps of certain things..It's really the least I could do.

Student teaching was fine. I met so many great people and exposed my unprofessional side a few more times than was allowed, which, while making me actually seem "cool" to some of my students, pushed me towards trouble more than once. Saying "fuck" in class does not add to my future credibility in the profession..although I don't actually plan on doing it anymore. I'd much rather work in a place where my co-workers aren't a bunch of paper-pushing pussies. I ended my term at AHS with a rather strong dislike for my CI and the administration. He wouldn't let me do anything but lecture, no matter what kinds of things I told him I wanted to do. The only time I had any bit of freedom was when I was being observed by Curry. I hope my parting gift to my CI kind of makes up for the animosity that was coming from both sides towards the end of the semester.

I also collapsed Laptop in late October and he's just not what he used to be now. The CD drive doesn't work, sleep function does not work, applications don't fully install sometimes, the power cord doesn't do it's job that well anymore....It's about time to say goodbye to my old friend and get a new computer.

I'm going to fight my upstairs neighbors soon. I hate those bitches.

I only have one more assignment for this semester- a revision of my 20 page field project paper. I wrote the whole draft in one sitting on Sunday night and now have until Monday at noon to get it in finalized. I still have a stack of 9 books on my desk with titles like "Instruction: a Models Approach," "Middle and Secondary Classroom Management," and "An Introduction to Student-Involved Assessment for Learning." They suck. Last night I gave my presentation on my paper and turned in my very brief job portfolio. I'm very close to being done. It's funny because all of my friends are in the midst of crunch time with papers and exams right now and I have a few days off to lay around.

Speaking of that all I really did today was get up at 11:30 (last night was a drinky night) and meet a friend for lunch. We talked about student teaching and how much she hated Mexico when she had to go down there for a few weeks over the summer. I came home from that and laid on my bed and played the new Golden Sun for 3 hours. I'm just starting to really move around now.

My roommate's watching The Proposal and it's making me realize how much I like Ryan Reynolds...

I've been thinking a lot about how Christmas is going to be different this year for me. It's my first Christmas since fully dropping my faith and moving on to my own beliefs. Even when my family made me help put up the manger scene in the side field I kept thinking about how I really didn't want to have it up or how fake I thought the whole thing is. I guess once the day actually gets here I'll suck it up and go to church because my family will want me to, but it's definitely not on my top list of priorities.

AND right before Christmas we're getting back from London. I'm very excited about going. It'll be my first time back in Europe since 2007. And it'll give my sister and me some time to hang out because we get along well when her boyfriend's not around...and he's not going with us. I still can't believe she'll be 18 in two months and graduating in June.

Right after Laptop died and was resurrected as Frankentop I pulled up a whole bunch of smut to read. I think I'm going to get on that tonight. It's terrible that it's things like that that get me excited. "Mmm...I'm going to read some smut tonight. Great night ahead!"

I have the best friends, by the way.

So now all I'm really doing is trying to string together coherent thoughts about this post and think about what I'm going to be making for dinner. There is always something more that I could put on here, depending on how much I want to say, how much I feel like typing, and what kind of mood I'm in. Right now I'm in a good mood.