namaste

Tonight I will have a lot of work to catch up on- probably up late

but I had a pretty awesome weekend

Friday I hung out with my fellow students and ate some Mediterranean food/ice cream

Saturday I had a friend date with Ben and we had fancy coffee at Comet Coffee and saw The Runaways...which was okay, but pretty disjointed. Hung out with roommate at night, looked at stupid bridal magazines and awesome Etsy for Wedding inspirado (We are both getting married this year) and listened to all the Radiohead albums except for Pablo Honey.

Sunday had a wonderful morning/afternoon lolling around the house and doing free yoga videos off of youtube.

I love weekends.

making fun of palin's angry mob

Job Fair #3 a bust.

bummer.

favorite book

"What about little microphones? What if everyone swallowed them, and they played the sounds of our hearts through little speakers, which could be in the pouches of our overalls? When you skateboarded down the street at night you could hear everyone's heartbeat, and they could hear yours, sort of like sonar. One weird thing is, I wonder if everyone's hearts would start to beat at the same time, like how women who live together have their menstrual periods at the same time, which I know about, but don't really want to know about. That would be so weird, except that the place in the hospital where babies are born would sound like a crystal chandelier in a houseboat, because the babies wouldn't have had time to match up their heartbeats yet. And at the finish line at the end of the New York City Marathon it would sound like war."
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

I need a haircut.

Teacher fair #3

In my job hunt I have went to 2 teacher fairs so far.

#3 is tomorrow.

lets recap...

#1 was a charter school job fair in Colorado and it was insane. You had to be there at least an hour before to get an interview because you would sign up and come back later...it was strange. Not too much progress there, and one man handed me back my resume and told me I just wasn't going to cut it.

#2 was the Oregon job fair, and possibly the largest job fair I will ever attend. There were literally thousands of teachers all trying to stand out. Here you had to wait in line for interviews which was MUCH more effective and you had much more face time.
= 1 positive interview.

lets predict...
I am anticipating a lot of non-Michigan schools at job fair #3 which I am not really feelin'. There are always a lot of Alaska, Texas, Florida and Arizona recruiters which is not where I am looking for employment. I think the options at this job fair are, Ann Arbor, Detroit and Grand Rapids. But I just don't know how it will work because of all the schools closed all the jobs lost in Michigan, how will this work? My hopes are not high...but I'm going to do my thing, along with my 25 other amazingly talented cohort students and hope I stand out.

Lead Teaching
My kids take the test of the Math unit I have been teaching tomorrow...and let me say, teaching Math and Math in general has not been my forte. I am nervous, I am just hoping hoping hoping that they do well, or I will feel like the biggest student teacher loser.

ALSO I am being upstaged my the other student teacher in the building. Sister Mary asldfkjsad;fl, not only did she witness a math lesson I messed up a little, but she brought in A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER CHILDREN'S AUTHOR....the writer of
FABLEHAVEN
which I have never heard of. AND she has a guaranteed job after her student teaching...not fair...not fair. I am clearly the less superior student teacher, and less holy.

And my CT, behind my back, talks about how bad the coffee I make is...

this is just the bad stuff.
There is so much more good stuff than bad.
I do love to teach.

My life= lots of sticky notes

I am smack dab in the middle of lead teaching at the moment.
It is slightly stressful and turning me into a slug when i get home.
I lay out on my bed and my body decomposes into the mattress like a rotting log.

Funny events include...

"Ms. Allen, your eyes, their CRAZY!"
"Well suck my peanuts!"
and a girl calling the lunch lady a hermaphrodite...

Every day is an adventure, and a good one. A goal of mine was to never lead a stagnant life, to never sit down all day, and to make a difference and by golly I'm doing it.

I've had 2 positive interviews- 1 at a private school in Vail, and 1 for the Corvallis school district in Oregon.

Things are looking up.

And life this year is in full bloom already!

Obama is speaking at my graduation...

And Summer in TC is almost here.

I also don't understand how teachers get student attention without a rainstick....

time for better blogging! promise!