Maps and Cities

it's over

2010-06-11T00:36:00.000-07:00

I just finished my last paper for my Masters degree. ELMAC is over and it feels so strange. The entire year went by so fast, the whole time I just wanted it to be over, and now that it is, it's unreal. In a year I became a masters level teacher...somehow

wow...

I am really going to miss all my new awesome friends
and living in Ann Arbor.

I have to move back to TC Sunday morning.

Now the job searching begins again...

namaste

2010-04-18T13:08:00.001-07:00

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

2010-04-16T12:04:00.000-07:00

Job Fair #3 a bust.

2010-04-16T08:48:00.000-07:00

bummer.

favorite book

2010-04-15T20:39:00.001-07:00

"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.

2010-04-15T20:09:00.000-07:00

Teacher fair #3

2010-04-15T19:27:00.000-07:00

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

2010-04-13T20:19:00.000-07:00

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!

we spent hours...

2010-01-24T11:19:00.000-08:00

Making this website.

www.mywedding.com/michaelandbrookeandeveryoneweknow

Long time no blog

2009-11-08T21:39:00.001-08:00

I shot my first Engagement Session this weekend...and I'm a little excited.
Here's a taste

It was so much fun walking around Chicago and catching the love between a few of my very best friends. I'll post more to my flickr soon.

Everything...wow

2009-08-07T19:18:00.000-07:00

I just finished my first semester of grad school.

This has been...the best schooling experience of my entire life.

So what I've been doing the past 6 weeks is working in an Ann Arbor summer school with children from all over the district. These kids were recommended to attend due to their performance in literacy and math. It was very very challenging, but completely amazing.
I worked with third graders teaching concepts of math and literacy to them and planned a lesson every day for when I was there. After summer school we had class at the school where we would discuss context/methods/reflections of the practice.

I feel so good about the teaching practices they are instilling in us and how our own professors are modeling to us, how they want us to teach children, they are treating us as sense-makers so we know to implement that in our own teaching.

Everything we are doing just fits together in the most amazing way and truly makes you think about everything you are doing in a lesson and making it intentional and focused.

Growing up I thought I was inept at math because I never did well in it, or understood it. Now I realize that the teachers were showing us how to do math, but not the why behind the how. They weren't allowing the students to discuss strategies and to question...I can't wait to be a teacher and really set up these children for success and let them question and discuss and feel confident in doing so. That is how you learn.

For some reason I'm feeling really emotional about the end of this semester. Many told me that a large percentage of people who go into teaching, leave very quickly. But maybe they were not taught the why behind the how of teaching. This summer we worked with the children who have the hardest time in school, and I still feel like I can't wait to get back into the classroom and encourage these kids to be interested in learning.

I think I truly made the best choice by going back to school, and I was truly lucky to be picked to be in this program, it is amazing and I am so interested in learning. I am so excited to teach.

its been a long time...shouldn't a left you, without a dope beat to step to..to step to...

2009-06-30T19:20:00.001-07:00

in a few words this is where i'm at now

ann arbor
u of m
grad school
studying
my
eyeballs
out
and
loving
everything
about
it
i
study
and
michael
watches
star
trek

This program, is amazing and I feel so good and so right learning how to be an awesome teacher, my professors amaze me and I get to start working with kids next week! LASKJDF.

And I've become more obsessed that usual with children's books...favorites as of late

Happy years :)

2009-04-20T12:13:00.001-07:00

2 years of seeing each other today. I love mu

I'm going to miss my friend/Spring came today

2009-04-15T18:34:00.000-07:00

Magic

Spring came today :)

I had some good times this weekend with my awesome Traverse friends.

Be safe over there buddy. I miss you already

Essays and Summers and Cellos

2009-04-07T11:56:00.000-07:00

I have many many essays to write- many.

But all I can think about is
Grad school excitement
Moving in May
Ann Arbor Summer with Mike
Seeing Andrew Bird tomorrow
Seeing David tomorrow
Cellos
and excitement for my future.

It took me a long time to feel excited about being an adult and I just feel so optimistic/unstoppable now.

!!

2009-04-05T19:23:00.000-07:00

!!DSFS!!

My favorite way to waste time

2009-03-31T22:07:00.001-07:00

Wardrobe Remix

history and my mind in a fight

2009-03-31T20:14:00.000-07:00

Just finished studying a 150 question review sheet on WW1 and WW2

and all i want is to
(and where my brain is saying to do)

go west
ride bikes
take pictures
nice breezes
tomatoes
flowers
green things
and
laying in
warm
sunny
fields
with my friends.

The Late Greats

Oy vey

2009-03-29T22:03:00.000-07:00

This week I have alot of crap to do. I might give up all social interneting for a week. If that makes any sense.

This is how it happend

2009-03-29T16:59:00.000-07:00

Tuesday night Mike and I decide to drive up to Traverse City to see his sister's play. It was not the greatest idea we've ever had, as I had 2 exams the next day bright and early. But we're risk takers and did it anyway.
The play was cute, and we saw a few friends for awhile and we decided to study awhile and sleep and then leave at 6am. Well once I got studying I realized exactly how much there was to cover and did not stop until 4am.
At that point we decided, what the hell, we will make a night of it and started off on our 2 hour journey home at 4am.
During that time we had some of the most exciting, enlightening, happy conversations of our lives and well...its extremely difficult to relay that amazing feeling where everything feels right, but ..it did.
We drove into Mt. Pleasant around 6am and Mike suggested we take a walk because it was beautiful out, he stopped at his apartment to get a notepad (and i didn't think anything of it when he came out without one)
We stop at home and then as soon as we step out of my apartment into the driveway he hugs me close and puts something into my hand...I was tired and thought it was a quarter and dropped it on the ground. When I pick it back up I realize its a ring! And he asks me to marry him. :)
Of course i say yes! and thus ensues a long time of us both freaking out in the driveway being happy yadda yadda ;)
I guess he was waiting for the right moment and it really couldn't have been more perfect.

So after grad school and after David returns from abroad we will be getting married, so about 2 years or so.

I am happy :)
and that's how it happened.

IT'S F'real!!

2009-03-25T14:56:00.000-07:00

umm Mike and I are engaged!! more details later ;)

3am

2009-03-24T23:59:00.000-07:00

On the way to pulling an all nighter- grad school conditioning...ps. I hate Eliot right now.

How Sherwood Anderson died

2009-03-24T22:41:00.001-07:00

Anderson died in Panama at the age of 64. The cause of death was peritonitis after he accidentally swallowed a piece of a toothpick embedded in a martini olive at a party.[4]

HATE HATE

2009-03-24T21:27:00.000-07:00

I positively hate studying early 1900's dead rich white guy poetry...
I am going to keel over and die because of it.
Put me out of my literary misery please.

Trying to be brave- Children's story I'm working on- Feedback preferred

2009-03-23T19:47:00.001-07:00

Work, years in progress. I am not much of a writer, but this was fun to do in one of my boring classes. Feedback appreciated, feel free to butcher it. Its geared towards middle elementary students. I am aware that grammar/punctuation is completely off :)

Margot's Brainstorm

Margot sat on the toilet
She was brainstorming in the only
private place in the house

With a flush and tornado
Margot spun through her thoughts
and landed on a soft gray membrane

Suddenly figures and life formed around her!
mouse detectives looking for clues
A dragon waltzing with his wife at the ball
An orchestra of vegetables playing instruments
Margot marveled at the asparagus's violin solo

An owl darted past her
Margot sped after him without thinking
He stopped, flew to her and she hopped on his feathery back

The two flew over her brainstorm
chattering with excitement
at the amount of rainbows
treasure maps
pirates
massive blue oceans with
sea turtles having tea
and narwhals watching the sunset

The owl landed on the most beautiful sprawling tree
with leaves that glittered
and tasted of grilled cheese
and tomato soup

There Margot observed the world
her brain had created
she dictated to the owl
who carefully put his monocle in place
and wrote every world she spoke

Soon exhaustion took her
The tree cradled her softly
the owl hummed her favorite lullaby
and she fell fast asleep.

Margot awoke with a sudden jolt!
Her brother was knocking on the bathroom door
She stood up, washed her hands and smiled

And sat down to the dinner table
with her mother and father
to a delicious grilled cheese and tomato soup

(the final illustration will be the mother and father as allusions to the tree and owl in her brainstorm, so the tree and owl will be them personified)

Sunday night feast

2009-03-22T16:54:00.000-07:00

Recipe for Momma's Mashed Potatoes

Need :
Redskins and normal Potatoes
Garlic
Herbs- Thyme/Oregano/Parsley
Salt/Pepper/Butter
Cream Cheese or sour cream
Milk

Peel and wash normal potatoes/ wash redskins
Cut into small pieces
Boil Potatoes in water/garlic/salt
When soft drain and mash
heat cream cheese and milk and add to mash
melt butter with salt/pepper/herbs and add to mash
mix up and enjoy (its delicious!)

I also made an awesome balsamic vinaigrette for our
spinach, sun dried tomato, green pepper,feta salad...YUM

Disconnect/Reconnect

2009-03-22T14:32:00.000-07:00

Michael's show at Kaya

The dog

2009-03-21T17:42:00.001-07:00

Last Sunday Mike and I were out for a morning bike ride, the air was warm (in this case probably 50 degrees) and we were trolling the downtown looking for an apartment for him next year.

I saw a brown dog bolt from someone's backyard and run around aimlessly but fast.

My thought process:

Ok that dog must be lost or a runaway, I should catch it.
It might have rabies.
It doesn't look rabid.
Its probably a neighborhood dog, this is normal.

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I decided to leave it alone, trying to convince myself that it was just a neighborhood dog, and continued on.

The next block over, we were looking at a for rent sign, when the brown dog bolted out from some bushes and practically into my hands. He was really quite nice and tame, and had a collar but no tags. His ribs were showing through his skin, but he just stood patiently with me.
I thought, well this is a really tame dog, I bet this is just a neighborhood dog still and I let go of his collar for a split second to see if he would stay.

I was so wrong, the dog bolted, I instantly knew then he was a runaway and biked after him. We cornered him into a back yard and I caught him again.
Then...I mean what do you do when you catch a dog..on a sunday?

I sent Mike home for the bike rack/car and asked everyone who walked/drove by if they had seen the dog before.

I must have waited there 15/20 minutes trying to figure out what to do, when the owner pulled up in a van. She thanked me for catching her dog, he was just adopted from the Humane Society 2 weeks ago.

So...I felt pretty good about this, although I let that dog get away from me twice. I'm glad he's safe.

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Now there's another animal dilemma. There's a cat lady that lives a few houses down from me, there are always many cats all over the yard/ the glass in her windows is broken/ the garage is always open and just crap all over the yard. This morning ( on another bike ride) there was a cat, who looked extremely sad and broken walking as if it could barely pick itself up. It broke my heart, but I don't know who to call.

I have way too much human/animal empathy. Its so difficult for me to deal with homeless people/animals.

ramble ramble

wowee

2009-03-01T22:00:00.001-08:00

Friday afternoon after walking home and listening to the birds chirp, I opened my mailbox to find absolutely nothing.

I walk up the stairs and hang my head in shame as there was no letter from U of M.

I check my gmail and fell of my chair crying...because i was accepted!

I am going to be in Ann Arbor from June 2009 to June 2010 obtaining a masters in education and getting my teaching certification in elementary language arts and fine arts.

I couldn't be happier and honestly barely thought i had an iota of making it in to the elitist big ten "University of Michigan"

Its boosted my confidence immensely and I cannot wait to begin. I've been looking for places to live all weekend.

Now i can throw away all my stupid back up plans and go for what i really wanted.

In other news...

Going to FL again in a week-- Mike is coming so it will be fun and tolerable.

Had a really good weekend filled with weird movies like one hour photo, earth vs the flying sauces which quickly turned into Contact and then Kinsey. We stay up farr too late.

Went out both Fri and Sat night, and both times was bought celebratory drinks, I never payed a dime this weekend for anything alcohol-related.

Things are coming together...and it feels so so good. I'm glad I made the right choice coming back here. I will miss my apartment though.

Randomly below I am going to post my recipe for tortellini soup...the way i like to make it.

Vegetable or Chicken broth (in my case i use veg, mike is a vegetarian)
salt/pepper to taste
garlic to taste
red pepper fakes, just a couple shakes
2 chopped tomatoes
chopped up spinach
tortellinis

when you boil the tortellini's add the tomatoes and spinach about 3 minutes before the pasta is done

and thats it! and its amazing

my mom used to make it when i was a kid and i always loved it
especially when I'm feeling sick (which i am)

Mike is currently in his studio making a really neat photo piece. He learned how to crochet for it and I can't wait to see it.

sleep

Ninna Nanna...maybe

2009-02-22T21:28:00.000-08:00

After a week full of exams I did a few fun things this weekend.

Mike and I played ping pong and pool and we think its about time we start a ping pong society for photo club to be affiliated with. It was pretty fun.

then I hung out with people in the north arts studios sculpting wax, chatting and watching random movies like star wars and home alone.

Mike has been sculpting non-stop all weekend, he'll come home soon, but until then my macbook is my bff.

Saturday we went to a Dr. Seuss Party, danced for 3 hours. The place was intensely decorated in bright colors.

Today I had band practice. Ron asked me to join his band last weekend and now I sing and play the tamborine and keyboard. So...thats a first. But really fun.

I am going to challenge myself this week and wake up early to run every day. And I'm going to do it, and if you try to stop me, then I'll say, no please.

ok sleep.

warmies

2009-02-10T15:09:00.000-08:00

It was 60 degrees today and the entire day just felt amazing, I felt like I could not go inside.
Mike and I took a walk chomping apples and busted out the road bikes.
We biked over to class and the wind was warm
After class a girl on a bike and I bonded and rode together talking about weird cats
I studied on my porch and met my neighbor, who is really nice and has a lil dog named max that weighs 2 pounds!
Then people came up to me and asked if there were any apartments in my house for rent, and they were really nice.
Then Mike came back and we discussed biology and I made Tortellini soup.

Just people around and talking today it feels good.
It is a little scary that 2 weeks ago it was -10, but I'll try not to worry. too much.

Thank goodness for this break, I was freezing

weird

2009-02-04T22:22:00.000-08:00

Leaving Ucup tonight I decided to go to the corner grocery store that I barely go to to pick up some food and it closed at 10pm, which is strange because it usually is open 24 hours.

weird.

I decided to drive to Meijer because i was already out anyways and down the road aways I realized I didn't have my lights on. (This often happens when I drive out of very lit parking lots like a blockbuster or something.) When I realized this I turned them on automatically. My immediate thought, " I hope i don't get pulled over" Then a cop pulled out behind me and pulled me over.

weird.

I put on a perky, "whoops I'm a stupid idiot girl" deal and he let me off the hook and I think he was freezing anyway. I hadn't been pulled over since 2004.

weird.

Went to Meijer, came back home and completely fell down in the driveway in the most comical way, things flying everywhere. I fell on my face.

weird.

gnight

0 degrees

2009-02-04T07:07:00.000-08:00

I am wearing

Long Johns
Pants over them
2 pairs of knee high socks
really warm boots
shirt
sweatshirt
snowboarding gloves
hat
headphones - act like earmuffs
scarf
HUGE sleeping bag type coat that goes to my mid calf.

and I am still cold.
Just walking around today makes my face so cold it hurts.

and all I can see are girls wearing stretch pants Ugg boots and a little fleece.
and they don't look cold at all!

What the....

Why do I have to look homeless to feel warm?

Out with the old...

2009-01-20T18:34:00.000-08:00

Finally it is Obama day!

I feel far more hopeful than yesterday
so hopefully...

my friends will stop being laid off
I will be accepted to a sweet university with FUNDING for me
and our little US will start to turn around for everyone except those rich corrupt companies.

I woke up around 8am and remembered it was Obama's first day of work and became completely giddy waking up Mike and jumping around excited screaming
"Its Obama Day! Anything can HAPPEN!"
He was reluctant at first but he soon joined in and we celebrated together and got tea before class.

In History we talked about Lincoln's assassination and what that meant, especially post civil war. Things in the US just started going to shit again.

I know we are all thinking it, but I hope Obama doesn't end up in that same situation. He's too good, its all too good it seems. But I will stay optimistic. Yes.

I came back home and Mike and I watched the Inauguration and our mouths gaped at Aretha's beautiful bowed hat and the 2 million people and cheered at the thought of not having to worry about how Bush is killing our country and smiled about how great an orator Obama is.

We also went to Yoga tonight and it felt so good.

I feel refreshed in many different ways.

And not dreading tomorrow like I was

I have an Etsy!

2009-01-13T21:22:00.000-08:00

Etsy: Your place to buy & sell all things handmade
brookeallen.etsy.com

No money Mo Problems

2009-01-12T10:07:00.000-08:00

In less than a month I have managed to

move out of Chicago
move back into Mt. P
Travel up to TC
Travel down to FL
Back up to TC and
as of this last Thursday come back to Mt. P

exhausting and hopefully worth it.

I am a bit in love with my new apartment

Its small and warm and its all mine

Classes started today and I was in dread for some reason, but I think this semester will be really good. It feels like I've been given a chance to start over and try really really hard. And then February will be the deciding factor for the next phase in my life. I'm not sure what my backup plan is if i don't get into UofM but...options will come I am sure.

Over break I visited with the Allen Family in FL and the Kent/Smith Family in TC.
Did some snowboarding- got a concussion and whiplash after being peer pressured by Mike and his Sister to get some big air.

Now it is slightly funny.

The library still has no open positions for me, which is a huge bummer. So I am jobless and just bought textbooks which totaled more than two months of rent for me. No moneyz.
I think I am going to try to start an etsy.
blahblahblah

Last week

2008-12-16T14:53:00.001-08:00

This is my last week in my job at Northwestern's Biomedical Engineering Dept.

I'm training someone new, who is really nice

Everything will be new and strange soon, but that is a welcoming change.

Also I fell asleep at 8pm last night watching "The year without a Santa Claus"
It was amazing.

yayayaya!

2008-12-11T14:44:00.001-08:00

Mike is coming today!

photographer...paid photographer

2008-12-10T22:07:00.000-08:00

After I took all those photos of J Vann Sunday and edited them. She posted them all on facebook. There were lots and lots of compliments
and it definitely boosted my self esteem.
Grace wants some, I need to find time to do them.

then her music teacher loved them and she would like some too!
Jvann told her I charge 150 dollars....

So possibly maybe. I might be a paid freelance photographer soon. And it is very exciting.
Could i turn this into a possible career if teaching doesn't work out?

maybe?

2008-12-09T21:48:00.000-08:00

Home Alone

2008-12-09T18:10:00.000-08:00

Home Alone (only the first one) is one of my very very favorite movies.

I love the cheese pizza
the tarantula
the robbers
that asshole buzz
the music

and how adorable it is with the old man
and
his mom

rainy

2008-12-09T10:26:00.000-08:00

sometimes i wish everything tasted like mashed potatoes

Maybe Maybe

2008-12-08T21:10:00.000-08:00

Maybe someday, I could make a living taking pictures.
Jvann seemed really impressed with the headshots.
It made me feel really REALLY good....and accomplished or something along those lines...

But then again there are many people who can take a good picture, who are good photographers.

its nice though, when you can make something great out of just a camera, and just a computer.
no lights, no flashes, no assistants to hold my camera while i'm deep in thought.

aw geez. I miss you California.
You are so free

We'll start

2008-12-08T16:44:00.000-08:00

This weekend was my 2nd to last weekend in Chicago, i was pretty surprised that no one really wanted to hang out with me. Possibly they were busy/possibly they forgot. I'm not really sure. Friday and Saturday night were spent at home however. Sunday being the busiest. I'll lay this out....

Friday-
McCormick Holiday Lunch- Hilarious time with Kurt/Ruben- Told Yun I was leaving finally
Train ride with Ruben, I was able to ask all the questions I've been curious about.
Shoe shopping with Lindsey-- long
Anthropologie--painful
Come home and watch stupid movies-- yes

Saturday-
Woke up too late
Attended a stupid fake German Festival

went to the Renegade Craft Fair, which was AMAZING and saw this band that I fell in love with called
Mucca Pazza (I think) Italian for Mad cow.
They were dressed in many different band uniforms and were so lively and happy.
ran into an old friend from the Art Institute and my old boss from there as well.

Came home...and nothing.

Sunday- Photographed JVann for headshots/demo picture/business card picture?
They turned out amazing and redefined my own abilities to take a good picture now and then.
I took around 850 pictures. But it was really fun.

Then free party at some douche-bag bar where we could drink for free for an hour

4 cranberry vodkas later, boots and I were singing disney songs on the way home. And feeling quite good at them at that.

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Work went by incredibly fast today, 9 more days until I leave BME Northwestern. And yeah I'm nervous. This job is the first and only job where I have felt completely comfortable with my work and with my co-workers. Half the faculty are idiots, but I can't help but love working with Kurt,Ruben, Dina, Virginia and Lindsey. I will miss it so much. But it hurts too bad to come home and be alone and unhappy and then feel no self-worth. When I could be out creating my future....anyway.

Good news=
Veterans Memorial Library called me for an interview
Its nearly the holiday
I get to see Neofuturists this weekend starring Kurt/Dina/Ryan
I get to party with some fun people dressed up
Mike comes on Thursday :)

Bad news=
FL is steadily approaching- dread dread
I'm worried about leaving my job
Bills bills bills.

blahh

2008-11-17T22:13:00.001-08:00

I'm having trouble wanting to sleep.

1 month to go.

dark and rainy

2008-11-06T14:49:00.000-08:00

Busy day at work, stressful times.

I have a lot to do and I need motivation.

Mike is so busy all the time.

Yes we Can!

2008-11-05T11:07:00.000-08:00

Obama

Grant Park

65,000 people and then some

standing for hours

PROJECTIONS

HE WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

L.A.N.D.S.L.I.D.E...

Brilliant Speech.

thousands cover Michigan Ave.

Cheers/dances/raps/bliss!

Change!Change!Change!

election day

2008-11-04T09:41:00.000-08:00

Things are going well for me

but if Obama wins...i'll be the luckiest 20-something ever.

I get to witness history night, along with 64, 499 others.

Go Obama! 2008!