zing! boom! flash!: April 2008

Thursday, April 17, 2008

One Year Ago Today...

I have this weird obsession with always liking to know something that happened exactly a year ago, or month ago, or TWO years ago etc. from "today." I think it is interesting to see what was going on and give me perspective on whether my life was better or worse THEN, than it is NOW. I like to resend e-mails to Luke that he e-mailed me when we were in the awkward "not dating" stage. This I more so do cause they are so awkward:

Sunday, October 23, 2005 8:02:42 PM
Ya I was thinking that we should talk sometime... about stuff. Yaa.. I think you know what i mean. Anyway I think I should be going to sleep, I haven't had enough of that. So until next time...

Anyways, the reason I am talking about this is because after not finding a summer job as soon as I should have last year I went through like 10 days of applying for jobs and not getting them and it was raining all the time and I was reading some of the most depressing books ever and basically felt like garbage, and THIS year I already have a summer job all lined up so I am foregoing all that 'no job' depression. Until the fall, then it may resume. (**how appropriate that 'resume' is a homograph in this situation!)

I am in the midst of final writing and this year I am taking the "less is more" approach to studying. I figure that the time I don't use for studying is just as important as the time I do use, so I do very important things like: go on facebook, organize my favourites on the computer, read the blogs of like 30 strangers who post great links to places that I would like to buy things from ** (one of my new 'favourites' folders), read my book, watch Arrested Development, go for walks,watch 'Ellen'...

Speaking of Ellen! Me and Luke forgot to send her a wedding invite. I gotta find an address!

posted by michelle @ 8:21 AM 0 comments

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

"oh emm ay arr"

I am HOME from my 6th last shift at Second Cup. Five more to go. It isn't like a horrible job thate I hate every second of. I complain alot in the hour before I go though: "ughhh! i don't wannnnnna go to work!" HOWEVER; my boss has the CUTEST little boy who was spelling him name for me. Can you guess what it is????!!!!!

Tomorrow I have a group presentation in my catholic class. lucky for MY group we got one of two boys in our class. And he has a beard. Who can see what's coming next????!!! Yep. He's playing Jesus. I would like to say it is my last presentation of the year, but it isn't. Group work is my nemesis. You are riding on the hope that your group members are as intelligent as you.

s-c-a-r-y. For instance, I am currently working on an inquiry based unit plan for my literacy class and it is a partner assignment. Our unit is for a grade one class and today my partner showed me a lesson plan she had done in which the kids were studying words such as " chlorofluorocarbons" and "the greenhouse effect." I said "i think that is way too hard for grade one." She said "no. kids are curious about this kind of thing."

Hmmm. i doubt it.

bitch bitch bitch!!!! whine whine whine!!!!

ANYWAYS! I am so excited for the new Office to be on. I also feel like spring could quite possible be making its way here. ALSO, today at work I looked up and saw a familar face: it was from year two at Grant MacEwan. He was in my drama class. He played my husband. There is our picture. I was pregnant in the play. Some people in that group took the play more seriously than me, can you guess which ones???!!!

posted by michelle @ 6:48 PM 1 comments

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Sept 16th was a long time ago. How does one summarize what has happened in their life in the last 7ish months? EASY.

1. Oct.15th - Dec.14th I was student teaching at Prince Charles Elementary which is a school for aboriginal children. It was somethin’ else. I have never been so consistently tired in my whole life. I taught in a grade 2/3 class which I thought meant “oh cute!” but after about 16 minutes in the classroom I thought “oh shoot!” No matter what they may tell you in university…there ARE bad kids in this world, and most of them are in Room 7. They have hard lives though, which is one reason why I could look past the profanity, the obscene drawings and the violence.

2. Jan.7th 2008, my last semester of this degree began. I was expecting to slack and have some relaxation after the above experience. WRONGO. I started to work again at Second Cup. I also had to start the process of applying to school boards. I also continued to volunteer at Prince Charles. I also had a wedding to start thinking about more. I also had relationships to build, people to see, homework to do, and make-up to apply. I had worries to worry and curries to curry. Anyways, needless to say I have never felt so bombarded by business and tired. Always so tired.

3. Here we are at April 1st and I am feeling the heat of final assignments, summer job lookin’ and the imminence of final exams. I have 6 more shifts at SC and then I am OUT of there. I have done all my school board shit. Most major wedding decisions have been made. I am majoring in fragmented sentences. Basically I am still pretty stressed. There are so many unknowns in my life. There are also some really great things in my life.
1. In 100 days I am marrying my bestest friend ever.
2. I am graduating. As scary as that is, it is also really great.
3. I remembered the password and sign-in information to this blog.

Welcome back, me.

posted by michelle @ 4:01 PM 2 comments

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