kaffryn

feel the burrrrrn

special k — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 03:23:45 +0000

this week=high stress+high anxiety=really bad heart burn

law

special k — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 21:10:23 +0000

boy 1: You can’t hit girls. It’s against the law!
boy 2: Yes you can! I’ve hit over 500 of them!…okay maybe not 500, but I’ve hit A LOT of girls. It’s not against the law”
boy 3: No, you can’t hit them! it’s in the men’s book of rules!!

third grade boys crack me up.

*edit*
interesting how boy 2 threw a ruler at the art teacher today… by “accident”.

Formosa Betrayed

special k — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 12:32:07 +0000

Go see it.
I went with a group of friends from my old church, which I recently discovered is a pretty green partied church. We went to the 5:30 showing at the Avalon where we got to meet Will Tiao afterwards for a q and a. It was pretty awesome and quite insightful… I had a few issues with the quality/authenticity of the characters in the movie, but I think the q and a cleared it up for me. I didn’t think the spoken mandarin/taiwanese was very authentic. Apparently, they had held casting calls in Taiwan, but not a single actor/actress auditioned… all possibly in fear of what it may do to their reputation. And the movie was shot in Thailand instead of Taiwan because it did a better job of resembling Taiwan in the 70’s/80’s. Taiwan has come a long way and they couldn’t find any decent areas that could resemble its history as well as the outskirts of Bangkok did.
Honestly, I wish I had known all of this before. I couldn’t believe I was never taught about 228 until now. I tried to talk to my parents about Taiwan after the movie, but the whole translation issue presents a problem for me. My vocab is quite limited in mandarin when it comes to political issues. So I used google and wiki to see if I could learn anything else… so many questions, so few answers…. yet so confusing cuz its all still politics. I feel like the movie and research gave me a good history lesson on Taiwan, but now I’m eager to find out what exactly it is that’s going on right now… or what my dad and uncles are hollerin about during every family gathering…

T minus 33

special k — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:35:23 +0000

woohoo. So just finished my first placement on second semester. I loved first grade… I didn’t at first, but I could barely leave the kids today. They listen. well…for the most part. I’ve realized I’m pretty strict with them but it’s only cuz I expect a lot… and that’s only cuz I know they got it in them. hehe I’m surprised they don’t hate me for all the recess I’ve taken from them for talking and what not…but it seems like that with so many kids. They’re so easy to forgive and forget, as long as you’re still nice to them in the end. The class wrote me a bunch of letters, got and read to me “Oh! The Places You’ll Go”… I’ve actually never heard that book until today and I nearly teared up. nearly. I wasn’t about to let those kids get on me for crying. haha.
All in all, I’ll miss first grade, and I don’t think I’d be so against teaching primary.
So after spring break, I’ve got 33 more school days till graduation… which leads me to my new bling.
I bought myself a “congratz for kicking ass in part 1 of 2 of my last semester/ part 1 of 2 of graduating gift”… yeah, you can see I put a lot of thought into this. I had a 8 hr long debate with myself, deciding whether or not I would be willing to make this purchase. I loved it, and it was a killer deal. It was a one day deal though, so I debated with my brain up until 11:55 on whether or not it was a wise decision. Eventually, I decided I deserved it, even though my wallet didn’t.
I got it for 28, and free shipping. original was 195. It wasn’t so much the deal that got to me as it was the sapphire.so purty. and I’ve recently developed a thing for rings… something about having it around my fingers that feels nice. but they’re so darn expensive… so when i stumbled across this beauty… I just couldn’t let it go… ya know?
I’m looking at it as a class ring… except prettier…
…see how I’m still trying to justify this spending even after I already bought it?
But it’s settled though. It came today and I’m in love.

*edit*

it won’t let me add my flickr pic… gr…

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thanks mim

great falls

special k — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:09:19 +0000

Roomies and i made a trip out to great falls. We parked at the side entrance (across from old angler’s inn) instead of paying the $5 for the main entrance parking. As we were getting out of the car, we heard a whimper whine sound coming from a car a few cars down… someone locked their huge black dog in the car with the windows just barely cracked. I was throwing a fit. We wrote a note on the guys car using profanity, called them an animal abuser and told them we reported their license plate… That was probably the immature thing to do in that moment, but I felt so helpless. I’m actually not too sure who I’m supposed to call to report such an incident. Another person walked by and stuck her hand through the crack to see if she could feel the temperature and said the dog should be ok for now but there wasn’t really anything we could do for it. ugh. so pissed. What kind of retarded person leave their dog in the car and just run off for a walk?! We even waited a couple of minutes to see if they just went to the bathroom or something. nope. grrr.
We had originally planned to go hiking, but all the trails were closed off b/c of flooding. so we ended up just walking off our anger for a couple of hours until we reached the falls, which were wild and crazy from all the rain.
note to self- bring granola bars on super long hike/walk… we were starved by the time we got back to the car.
luckily the locked up dog was gone, note and all… we hope he/she got the message…

squeaky clean

special k — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:14:53 +0000

I can’t stand cleaning…
well it’s not that I can’t stand it, so much as I just don’t do it. I’m just so caught up in my work that everything just gets tossed around and I never find the time to get to organizing it. By the time I get home, I’m pooped and I have a pile of work to do.
The weird thing is that I seem to get this itch to clean whenever I have something big due the next day. A big assignment seems to push my cleaning senses into overdrive and I’m scrubbing every corner of the house… all to avoid work.
*sigh*…at least it’s all clean…

guilt free

special k — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:38:59 +0000

guilt free girl scout cookies:
consume three samoas one hour before spin class.
yup…

the early bird gets the…

special k — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:16:47 +0000

gr…
It seems like I can’t bring myself to sleep in on the weekends here. I spend a whole week getting 4 hrs of sleep every night and finally it’s the weekend… and I’m expecting myself to sleep in…but I don’t. I can’t. I CAN’T SLEEP ANYMORE!! but I want to!!! My life is so surreal when I’m wide awake at 8 on a Saturday. ugh, I feel old.

with child

special k — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:33:40 +0000

Preschooler came up to me today…

kid:Do you have a child at home?
me: what?!
kid: Do you have a child?? at home?!
me: uh…no…lol… do I look like I would have a child at home?
kid: well aren’t you a mother?
me: no… do I look like a mother?
kid: so you really don’t have a child at home?
me:…no… how old do you think I am? Do you think I’m old enough to have a child?
kid: yes… but no, because you look younger than my mommy… so no child?
me: no……..
other kid: maybe it could still be in your stomach.
me: WHAT?!
other kid: well… that’s where babies come from! your stomach!

………kid was so insistent that I had a kid.

poison control

special k — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:55:18 +0000

so I guess my lack of z’s has caught up to me…
I’ve got food poisoning… or the stomach flu… I can’t tell what is what. I’ve got symptoms of both….like mad. can’t keep any food down.. I can’t even keep the Pedialyte down… Probably because it tasted a lot better as a kid. I swear I remember it tasting like juice. Now it just taste like…crap…encouraging more trips to the bathroom. joy.

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Ok so now I’m thinking it’s the stomach flu… I’ve been in and out of fevers/chills. The vomiting has stopped but I’m still losing plenty of liquid. I couldn’t think of anything I could have eaten that would do this to me. Everything I had recently was cooked or just purchased from the store. I meant it could have been poor packaging or something, but still, I think I would’ve felt better by now if it had been that. I’m pretty sure one of my students transferred something yucky to me. They’re a bunch of first graders who don’t know smack about hygiene. Well, some of them are good about it, but I can point out a select few who always have their hands in their mouths, wipin it on something else(me). OR really washing their hands after the bathroom.We have a bathroom in our classroom cuz it’s an old kindergarten classroom. I realized the other day that not all of them do. I caught one kid…
as kid walks out of the bathroom towards the classroom…
me:excuse me, go wash your hands.
kid:uh i don’t need to.
me: you just came out of the bathroom, you need to go wash your hands.
kid: but i didn’t use my hands, so i don’t need to.
me: *gave him a wtf look* I don’t know how you managed that, but I don’t care. Anytime you come out of the bathroom, you wash your hands.
kid walks away and sulks as he washes his hands.

I’ve been super paranoid this semester with these first graders. Washing my hands, using hand sanitizer every chance I get. I dry out my hands so bad with this stuff, but it’s so worth it cuz these kids are nasty. Apparently, it doesn’t help… I shouldn’t been taking my airborne. I got lazy and stopped, and now look what happened. gr.
I’ve managed to take down some congee today. But I’m dying for something else to eat. I really don’t want to miss out on the dinner at fushing tomorrow night. I’ve been craving that stuff for the past week… but even if I do get better enough to go, I doubt I’ll be eating anything there other than rice boooo.