Happiness Is Only Real When Shared

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!

goodbye tucson

I have been living off my credit card because my checking account balance has literally been $0.28 since paying my rent on May the 4th (I was late). I got paid a whopping $150 today, but was really excited to finally submit my ASU graduate school application. It costs $80 (for me, $65 for citizens, completely unnecessary), and their website does not accept American Express, so I had really been putting it off. So I go to submit, but get one of those great Java Script errors, and have to go back and do it again. Little did I know, it had gone through the first time, and I had now submitted my application and paid the $80 fee twice. I immediately check my bank account and it's overdrawn. UGH. I call ASU, and tell them my situation, hoping that they can just cancel one of the submissions. The guy says, "Are you sure you got charged twice? I mean, the charge takes a couple a days to post to any bank account.." "Yes, I'm looking at it and I'm overdrawn" "Well, how about you wait until it posts to your account and then fax us a copy of your bank statement and we'll credit the charge" "But it has posted to my account, can I fax it right now?" "How about you wait until Monday?" At this point I'm crying because I hate money and today was a horrible day well before this even happened. I call my bank, and after waiting on hold for 20 minutes, ask the associate if they can cancel the charge. She tells me that I will have to wait overnight, file a claim, sign an affidavit (!!!) that they will send to me, send it back, and then wait for them to credit my account. Oh my god. I tell her nevermind, I'll deal with ASU. Before I hang up I ask if I'm going to get an overdraft fee and she just says "Yeah".

So much for feeling rich ($80-rich) for at least the weekend. Now I am overdrawn - something that I had always been so good at avoiding!!

i am finished with my last french presentation! what that means is that it doesn't matter that i still have a final tonight, two finals tomorrow, and a french research paper due next week, because i am done making presentations that i dread for weeks before, in a language that i don't feel confident speaking in! that is a good feeling!

the mexican restaurant of the future

i picked up my car in phoenix. it feels really bizarre to drive MY OWN car. all i need now is text-messaging, and i will be a regular 22 year-old!

today matthew's dad brought in a gopher snake that had cactus needles stuck all over his body. we helped to pick them out.

i had a lot of fun tonight.

tonight i started cleaning out the massive amounts of unnecessary shit that i have been hoarding in my apartment. this parent-aided move is going to be an ordeal, just like all the others, so i need to start planning and packing right now to avoid any potentially fatal family meltdowns. anyway, the only reason that i even bring up my spring cleaning is because it made me really depressed. i must have read through dozens of old cards and notes, and looked at hundreds of old pictures. i really miss tiffany, and amy, and brenna, and erin. i miss paris, and everyone that i went to paris with. i miss playing lacrosse and everyone on my lacrosse team. i know i say this a lot, and it's completely pathetic and terribly uncool, but i really hated college and still miss high school. as a general rule, i think college sucks if you're shy and socially awkward and therefore bad at meeting new people and making new friends. i was in my element for much of high school because i was lucky enough to develop this great group of friends that i felt completely comfortable around. i would love to have that again.

on a completely different note, i wanted to say that i have read through a lot of amazing love scenes lately, what with the time traveler's wife, middlesex, the unbearable lightness of being, etc., but none have been as sexy as the epic love scene between dagny taggert and hank reardan!!

this weekend i am going to phoenix. on monday afternoon i have an interview with a "group" of principals from the phoenix school district. i am absolutely terrified.

today my bus driver drove 10 miles, through the dangerous streets of tucson, stopping when asked, while talking on his cell phone! i didn't know whether to be terrified or impressed.

i have absolutely no motivation to do anything school related. i could stop going to school right now, i could refuse to do any more homework or take any more tests, and i would still pass all of my classes, graduate, and no one would ever know the difference. but if i did that, i would be incredibly bored, and this last month would go by that much slower.



i cannot wait until lee and i can get more cats, and at least one dog! sorry boy, but we're kind of over you.

well i was shoppin' for a new car, which one's me?
a cool convertible or an SUV?
too bad i didn't know my credit was whack
cuz' now im drivin off the lot in a used subcompact
F-R-E-E, that spells free
credit report dot com ba-by
saw their ads on my tv
thought about going but was too lazy
now instead of lookin' fly n' rollin' phat
my legs are stickin' to the vinyl and my posse's gettin' laughed at
F-R-E-E that spells free
credit report dot com ba-by

well they say a man should always dress for the job he wants
so why am i dressed up like a pirate in this restaurant?
it's all because some hacker stole my identity
now i'm in every evening serving chowder and ice tea
shoulda gone to free credit report dot com
coulda seen seen this comin' at me like an atom bomb
they monitor your credit and send you e-mail alerts
so you don't end up selling fish to tourists in tee-shirts

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