lo hicimos

and i'm ready :)

i know i've been gone awhile

and i think i'm close to making a full return. :)

tonight, though, just a quick note on me- i think i'm one of the most emotional people i know when it comes to beautiful live music. i went to a dartmouth college alumni event tonight, and hearing some of their amazing student vocalists sing brought many a tear to my eye. everyone else was stomping along with the gospel choir, and i was crying. weird.

it's (sadly, oh so sadly) past my bedtime...

i hope you (meaning the .5 people who still probably check this site) are well! i am, everyday, being newly and positively(?) challenged.

again

again, a new classroom.
again, a new place to live.
again, a new roommate (though this one is also an old roommate- yay!).
again, a new boy.
again, new beginnings.
again, this unsettling apprehension/excitement for things to come.

it's the beginning of the school year, folks! and i'm not ready...
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i've taken a long hiatus. it's been interesting to sit with all of my thoughts instead of typing up half of them to share with the world. august, well, all of this summer, really, has been a hectic haze. lots of running around, worrying and stressing, not nearly enough fun. but all the people in my life who faced health challenges are very much on the mend (melissa can even eat tomatoes! no other fruits, but tomatoes are a start!), i finally found a place to lay my head for (hopefully) more than a year (and it has a backyard!), and after a very busy dating season i think i'm settling into something more promising. phew. now all i have to do is pack and move, and get used to teacher hours (24/7) again.

here we go.

ROFL!

not really. but this is funny and i've never actually typed "rofl" before, so i thought i'd try it out. newayz...cue "birth control as period control video":

challenge to self:

eat my way through new york mag's "ten best new eats under $5."

that's my month of august in a nutshell. :) and no worries, i will bring back pictures! and hopefully a verrrrry happy stomach (though i'm not so sure about the goat...)

"bringing back" paddling sounds like a bad idea,

no?

but i guess a school district in georgia disagrees. little did i know, georgia school districts actually get to decide whether or not they want to use corporal punishment! also, only 28 states actually have a ban on corporal punishment in schools? really? wow...

this is problematic:

"The Twiggs County school board reinstated its corporal punishment policy this summer to allow students to be spanked to curb misbehavior...Twiggs parents will have to sign a permission slip for their child to be paddled by an administrator, and witnesses will have to be in the room. There also will be a meeting to inform parents of the changes."

hmm. it would seem to me that, as an administrator, i would be somewhat fearful for my life if i went around spanking people in the regular course of my days. what happens when not all parents sign the slip? what happens when a middle or high school student decides spanking isn't for him/her and decides to hook themselves up with a gun?

there are some things about this country that i just can't understand.

my brand of determination

tends to take me down long, winding, troublesome paths. sometimes, those paths lead me to destruction (and/or diarrhea).

more cat

today, i was determined to find a snack. something not too expensive and not too fattening, but sweet, to cap off an uninspiring lunch of leftover pasta and- wait for it- ragu sauce. yeah, like the mega bottle of sauce that your mom used to buy at costco if she was less-than-well-off, had four kids, and didn't particularly like to cook, like mine. :)

anyway. i walked into the duane reade on 34th street today looking for a satisfying treat. often, when i start on these treat escapades, i end up buying something random just because i get tired of looking. today was no exception to that rule. what was the last treat to cross my path before my determination became exasperation, you ask? tasty kake "sugarfree sensables." i picked up the chocolatiest ones i could find and headed for the register.


while i stood in line, i decided to read up more on my "tasty" treat so i could more effectively congratulate myself on the sensible purchase. some of the stats:

1) only 100 calories per snack! (this is good)
2) only (as snack cakes go) 12% of my recommended daily value of fat! (this is good)

good so far, yes? i thought so too! then i saw this, in bold, capital letters waaay down at the bottom above the "TastyKake Guarantee":

EXCESSIVE CONSUMPTION MAY HAVE A LAXATIVE EFFECT


(this is not good)

(why me?)

i wanted to post today

because i checked my sitemeter and feedburner and see that there are still people visiting, but i'm having a lot of trouble finding inspiration. maybe it's because i am, yet again, approaching between-two-jobs limbo, on my way back into the classroom, this time in a charter school setting, helping to found the kind of school (i hope) i'd like to start. maybe it's because my mother, while she's on the mend, is far from out of the woods, and it worries me more than i like to admit. maybe it's because i feel selfish as the child that insists on far-away-cross-country independence from her family, even during trying times like these. maybe it's because i can't figure out how to run the a/c in my room at night without getting sick, which means i am getting (almost) no sleep. maybe it's because i can't wait for the raise and expanded sense of security the new job will bring. maybe it's because i wouldn't mind a new boyfriend, as in someone i actually like beyond drinks-after-work, hookups-on-friday-nights, text-messages-when-we're-bored (as cute and funny as the current men in those slots might be).

i don't really know why it is. i'm still reading and writing and thinking and planning. it's just that none of it makes it to this text box.

oh well.

i think i'm going to cut my hair

off.

yeah, i just might.

summertime music

my summertime anthems muxtape! joyeux.muxtape.com

still a work in progress...