“Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Merry, merry king of the bush is he
Laugh, Kookaburra! Laugh, Kookaburra!
Gay your life must be”
I observed my kids’ music class this past week and they were singing/analyzing this song. My whole life I thought the song was about a cuckoo bird. nope, turns out it’s about some aussie bird who’s call sounds like a laugh. I felt like I had been in the dark for so many years. I blame my elementary school music teacher. And I just had to youtube it when i got home…and got a huge kick out of it. This ones for you Mrs. Kippur…
so I’ve been mixing up my breakfast these past couple of days to see what will suffice me until lunch. I can’t remember the last time I was forced not to eat for 5 hrs in between meals. Yeahhh I know 5 hrs isn’t much, but when you use up all your energy on the kids, I’m ready to eat in 3 hrs. I’m not even allowed to drink water or have snacks in between cuz I “shouldn’t eat in front of the kids when they’re not allowed to…” ermm I get the respect and all, but I though that was one of the few perks of being a teacher. Being able to eat in front of the kids! and they dont have lunch until 11:40!! The latest I can have breakfast is 6:30. So far…
1 bowl of special k: starving by 9
1 bowl of kashi: starving by 9:45
scrambled eggs: starving.
2 scrambled eggs: starving by 9
scrambled eggs with cheese on bread: too lactose intolerant for cheese in the morning.
scrambled eggs with dried shredded pork on bread: got me through till 11. but takes way too long…
this morning I had sunny side up, and while i was making my sunny side up I was munchin on a bowl of kashi so lets see how this goes. I think I’m good on time too cuz I’m knockin out one while I’m making the other.
Oh! and of course all of these come with a cup of coffee… I have my second cup on my way to the school since I have all the time in the world sitting in traffic -_-;;
So my goal this weekend was to finish my homework/readings by Sunday. It’s saturday and I’ve come to realize that I can’t get any work done at home.
I try to work in my room, but daddy is blasting taiwanese dramas next door.
When I need internet, the only place I can steal wireless is from my dining room…very uncomfortable chairs…
I can hear bro yelling from basement at his computer geeks friends when I sit at dining room table.
No where else in the house has internet access except the dsl my dad is hogging and the comcast my bro refuses to share.
This internet barely works. I get one bar of signal most of the time making it really shaky.
oh yeah and I hate homework.
mmm This past week couldn’t have been more stressful. It really gave me a look at what teacher planning would be like. I spend the first couple of days putting up bulletin boards and posters and simply decorating all corners of the classroom. In between all of that was endless MEETINGS. I’ve never sat through so many boring meetings in my life. sexual harassment, H1N1, curriculum, standardized tests…and boy could I go on about the standardized testing. Every grade got their scores and made the ayp and all that crap, but it was completely ridiculous. My teachers were explaining to me that they had a much harder time with their kids last year b/c they were all really low and needed special assistance. How are you going to compare such students. ugh i cant start my rant otherwise it’ll never stop. moving on. I hate comcast. I hate them with a passion. Too angry to blog about it now. Will complain more later. GR.
So my university email account has this security thing that makes us change our passwords every 90 days or so… I know it’s safe for security measures and all…but seriously, it’s testing my cerebrum which could be better. I changed my password last week again and I was all out of fresh ideas…so I think I made something up. yet I can’t seem to remember what I changed it to. *sigh*…guess i’ll keep trying until it kicks me off.
So I finally got around to watching confessions of a shopaholic after shopaholics around me kept making references to it. Overall, it was a pretty good movie. It had its cute stuff and relatable stuff and wasn’t as dumb as I was expecting it to be. Of course by the end of the movie it makes you feel bad about all the clothes and shoes in your closet…but apparently not bad enough. Cuz the next day I get a sale email and bam, purchased two tops and a bottom. Of course I told myself they were all school appropriate clothing and since I was purchasing them for my internship it was considered an investment into my future career… yes… moving on. With all my friends out of town this weekend, redbox became my friend and I watched Watchmen too. Pretty epic movie and I’m surprised I was able to sit through it (I wouldn’t say the same for Street Figher, Don’t watch it. whatever you do. you won’t make it to the end). Unfortunately…I didn’t pay much attention to the rated R for blood and violence and got kicked in the butt with it. The movie held way too much gore for my stomach. I had to look away multiple times just so that I didn’t lose my dinner. The movies got enough blood for a transfusion and my stomach was barely able to take it. Aside from the blood it was a great movie… can’t say the same about street fighter.
I got back from camping a week ago and was glad I went. Aside from having to dig your own poo hole and sleeping on rocks, there’s something rather peaceful about the experience. I came back rather refreshed and feeling carefree only to attack a week of stress and pain. I come back to endless emails about what my semester is going to look like and assignments for the beginning of the semester. It’s not even August yet! I still have my summer! Stop trying to take it away from me by telling me I’m a senior. hmph. That on top of waking up at 6 to get pood and drooled on and busy work at the office just totally took away the peace I obtained during my week in the woods. My weeks just seemed to cancel each other out… that’s the problem with summer. I come back from vacation and I just want to go on another vacation…
I was really expecting to blog a lot more with all the free time I was getting with the summer…but then I realized I had less to complain about once school was finished. Of course I could have blogged about my events and such, but it seemed like I had less incentive to do so.
This summer has been going by quickly… Went to ocean city and had a much needed beach break. Did a lot of outlet shopping this summer… updated my wardrobe for some much needed teaching appropriate clothing. Went to Kings dominion on a semi gloomy rainy day, but got to ride all the rides twice, waiting no longer than 5 minutes for any of them, except the Volcano, which took about a 20 minute wait, but that’s short compared to the usual 2 hr wait. Though the weather called for rain and it poured most of the morning, by the time we went in, the rain had slowed to a drizzle. Overall, I’d say it was a good day. I wasn’t sweating in the sun, waiting 2 hrs in line for a 5 minute ride, and I really didn’t mind the rain at all.
I’ve seen a couple of movies this summer. It always seems like summer is the time for movies, and I’m taking advantage of the student discount while I still can. I just went to watch Harry Potter last night and I thought it was okay. It held humor that I wasn’t expecting, but I probably shouldn’t have reread the book before I watched it cuz I was rather disappointed… the book seems to feed you bits and pieces and lets it all come together in the end, while the movie just simply spits everything at you and kinda ruins the mystery thrill of it all. But overall, for cramming all the stuff into a 2.5 hr movie, it’s not so bad.
It feels great to be done.
Though spring semester tends to go by faster than the fall, the last few weeks are always hell.
Packing up was horrible though. I moved all my things home yesterday and it was ridiculous. I found out my procrastination skills seem to extend out of school work and into packing. I didn’t start packing until the Wednesday night, and woke up early on Thursday to get the rest of my packing done before work at 1pm… then moving everything to the car, driving home, moving everything into the living room, discovering there was no way to maneuver through the house with all the boxes in the way, and moving everything upstairs to my brother’s old room or downstairs to the storage room. I was so tired by the end of the day that I slept till 2pm today… well technically yesterday. I haven’t done that in a while. So I’m pretty awake right now staring at this maze of a mess I call my room.
It sucks because I’m just gonna have to move it all back in August. And my roommates and I are getting an apartment off campus…unfurnished…meaning more things to haul. Oh the joys of 9 month leases…
Elementary Ed just gets better and better. This was the day after ONE of the many projects I have in these next few weeks. I’m just full of colorful messes this semester.
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October 4, 2009 11:33 pm | 
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