Happiness Is Only Real When Shared

I can also still read my diaryland from March 2002

is that I'm the only one who never stopped blogging...

WELCOME BACK TO THE BLOGOSPHERE GUYS! ME AND MY CAT PICTURES MISSED YOU!

i stopped posting here, and am instead posting in http://zoologue.blogspot.com

i still read my livejournal friends page though!

I am now a proud participant of the daily Phoenix commute.

Every morning I leave my house at 6:45, and head south on the I-17. I am usually stuck in traffic for the majority of the trip. I get off at Van Buren, and drive east, through downtown Phoenix, until I reach 13th street and take a right. I arrive at Shaw elementary school at 7:30, and sit through a daily staff meeting. At 8:30, we head out to the field where we greet our summer school students, and escort them to the gymnasium. I am student teaching, and have been assigned a P.E. class, even though I will be teaching science in the fall. Today we played field hockey, barnyard and kickball. Tomorrow we are playing soccer and basketball. I am not thrilled at having been placed in a P.E. class, but I'm dealing with it. At 11:15, we get 30 minutes for lunch. This morning I woke up late, and didn't have time to put a lunch together, so between the time I woke up and 7:00 pm this evening, I ate an apple. After lunch, we have two and half more hours of activities before the children are dismissed at 2:30. At 2:30 we have another daily staff meeting, and then I leave in order to make it over to Garcia elementary school at Buckeye and 27th avenue by 3:30. From 3:30 to 6 pm I take part in teacher training courses with other Phoenix Teaching Fellows. Sometimes I leave these training sessions to meet with principals who interview me to see if they'd like to hire me to teach at their schools in the fall. I have been on three interviews in the past month. At 6 pm I leave Garcia elementary school and head north on the I-17, towards home. I am usually stuck in traffic for the majority of the trip. The next day, I do the same thing all over again.

I have never in my life felt so tired.

I am going to write here and blogspot because why not?

i want to start writing in this blog http://zoologue.blogspot.com/ , and figure that now is as good a time as any to start.

and am now living back at my parents house in phoenix. it hasn't been that bad so far, but i am still hoping that i can move somewhere else by the time i start teaching in the fall. i have yet to find out where i'll be teaching, but i will be starting my "summer institute" on june the 2nd. i feel like i have gone from having nothing to do, to being so busy. the last few weeks of college were so easy, and now i can't make myself sleep past 8, and have errands to run every day. my college life has ended, and my adult life is starting without a minutes break. today, for instance, i woke up, swam, walked the dogs, went grocery shopping with my brother, went to see indiana jones, drove to arcadia to pick-up my teaching guidebook, and then found a kinkos so that i could copy my visa and fax it to the asu graduate school. now i'm at home, and need to start getting ready to go to dinner. i guess that's not a super busy day, but i accomplished a lot more than i ever accomplished in one day in tucson. i just realized that the reason for this is that i have a car now. i have been driving so much since i moved back here, because everything is so spread out. i hate it. i can get a lot more done, but i am also doing a lot more because i can. i don't need to wait for someone to give me a ride anymore. ugh this entry is stupid and pointless, i don't know why i started writing it. here is a picture of my dog at a tucson dog park. he is the awkward one.

i graduate college tomorrow!!!! i move back to phoenix the day after that!!!!

i passed the aepa! yay!