All my classes, and apartment-update
Monday night, our Sculpture professor showed up. I was really happy, since it was the professor that I was hoping for -- the one many of my classmates had last semester and really loved. I think it is going to be a fun class. We received a list of lots of projects, and we get to choose three to work on. We can also propose our own projects.
Last night, I had Writing Across the Curriculum. It is GREAT!! I am really excited about it. It is not what I expected at all -- I guess I thought it would deal with the kind of writing teachers need to do -- curricula, unit and lesson planning, etc. However -- even better, it is about incorporating writing into classroom subject areas, which is something I really believe in! I think it is really going to be an outstanding class. Additionally yesterday the professor distributed journals that we need to use, and they were mostly just plain solid-colored notebooks. However, randomly, there was one BARBIE journal. That's the one I picked of course! (Hee hee!)
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I just got the news that my aunt is in the hospital after having signs that a heart attack was approaching. She had numbness in her arm, and she called my mom (who is a nurse). My mom advised her to go to the hospital immediately! She is in the hospital now and doing okay, but she is being monitored, and she has heart damage. I'm not sure I understand what that means, if there was an actual heart attack or if it was somehow prevented. Please keep her in your thoughts!
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Mayranna officially moved into the apartment last Friday, and she has totally made herself at home. It is great! She's even had friends come and visit. She has just started her student teaching, and it is right in Park Slope (more convenient to get to from out apartment than from Williamsburg -- where she had been living). She set up her room really cutely as well. I think she really likes it here. A good sign of a new roommate: I was out in the living room, playing my ukulele, and she came out of her room because she wanted to SING ALONG! :)
Additionally, inspired by me and Alexandra's ukes, Maryanna has purchased herself a red Mahalo. Now we are a primary-colored trio! It has not yet arrived but it'll be exciting when it does! What a musical apartment we shall have!
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This weekend I got to see Susan's new place. It is really cute! As we approached her apartment, I knew roughly where it was, but I didn't know exactly which building it was. I figured it out quickly when I recognized all of her plants in the window! Susan's new place has these strange and awesome features, including a laundry drying rack that opens up out of this compartment in the wall in the bathroom!!
I sushi'd with Aly on Friday, and then spent the bulk of Saturday cleaning my apartment. It was quite gratifying! :) That evening is when Alexandra and I picked up Susan and the three of us went to Justin's birthday arty. It was a lot of fun!
The following day, I actually slept LATE, and then worked on some stuff. I also went YARN SHOPPING at a little store in Park Slope, where they were having a "Superbowl Sale." (A yarn sale is the anti-Superbowl, I guess!) I met Kristen (my uke teacher friend) there and we yarn shopped in this itty bitty store for about an hour. I got some yarn so that I can make the "Kittyville" hat in the Stitch 'N Bitch book. I have always wanted to make that! This will be my first more-advanced knitting project. I am excited!
After getting yarn, I immediately headed into Manhattan and met up with Stacey who was in town visiting her boyfriend. We went to JOHN'S PIZZA, which is our favorite! It was a lot of fun hanging out and catching up! :) Overall an outstanding weekend!
Last night, I had Writing Across the Curriculum. It is GREAT!! I am really excited about it. It is not what I expected at all -- I guess I thought it would deal with the kind of writing teachers need to do -- curricula, unit and lesson planning, etc. However -- even better, it is about incorporating writing into classroom subject areas, which is something I really believe in! I think it is really going to be an outstanding class. Additionally yesterday the professor distributed journals that we need to use, and they were mostly just plain solid-colored notebooks. However, randomly, there was one BARBIE journal. That's the one I picked of course! (Hee hee!)
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I just got the news that my aunt is in the hospital after having signs that a heart attack was approaching. She had numbness in her arm, and she called my mom (who is a nurse). My mom advised her to go to the hospital immediately! She is in the hospital now and doing okay, but she is being monitored, and she has heart damage. I'm not sure I understand what that means, if there was an actual heart attack or if it was somehow prevented. Please keep her in your thoughts!
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Mayranna officially moved into the apartment last Friday, and she has totally made herself at home. It is great! She's even had friends come and visit. She has just started her student teaching, and it is right in Park Slope (more convenient to get to from out apartment than from Williamsburg -- where she had been living). She set up her room really cutely as well. I think she really likes it here. A good sign of a new roommate: I was out in the living room, playing my ukulele, and she came out of her room because she wanted to SING ALONG! :)
Additionally, inspired by me and Alexandra's ukes, Maryanna has purchased herself a red Mahalo. Now we are a primary-colored trio! It has not yet arrived but it'll be exciting when it does! What a musical apartment we shall have!
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This weekend I got to see Susan's new place. It is really cute! As we approached her apartment, I knew roughly where it was, but I didn't know exactly which building it was. I figured it out quickly when I recognized all of her plants in the window! Susan's new place has these strange and awesome features, including a laundry drying rack that opens up out of this compartment in the wall in the bathroom!!
I sushi'd with Aly on Friday, and then spent the bulk of Saturday cleaning my apartment. It was quite gratifying! :) That evening is when Alexandra and I picked up Susan and the three of us went to Justin's birthday arty. It was a lot of fun!
The following day, I actually slept LATE, and then worked on some stuff. I also went YARN SHOPPING at a little store in Park Slope, where they were having a "Superbowl Sale." (A yarn sale is the anti-Superbowl, I guess!) I met Kristen (my uke teacher friend) there and we yarn shopped in this itty bitty store for about an hour. I got some yarn so that I can make the "Kittyville" hat in the Stitch 'N Bitch book. I have always wanted to make that! This will be my first more-advanced knitting project. I am excited!
After getting yarn, I immediately headed into Manhattan and met up with Stacey who was in town visiting her boyfriend. We went to JOHN'S PIZZA, which is our favorite! It was a lot of fun hanging out and catching up! :) Overall an outstanding weekend!