I felt so happy/relieved/ecstatic this afternoon when I was leaving my student teaching for the day and heard a little boy whining to his mom, "But I don't LIKE McDonald's!"  Finally, a kid with some health sense.  A kid who was listening during health class, perhaps, and realizes that a happy meal does not fit into the four food groups.  I  ( Read more... )

Spring awakening is full of amAzing songs.  I should know.  I just went and saw the national tour of it for the second time (la! I'm spoiled :D) last night.  So if there are all those amazing songs, tell me why i had "The Dark I know Well" in my head all night and into the morning as I was awakening??  Maybe it's because it's pretty powerful to see ( Read more... )

My first instinct in replying to this is:

*mumblemumblemumble*okayiwanttoseeit,iguess,whatever,YES*mumblemumblemumble*

But then I hear my boyfriend's voice in my head (yes, only six months dating and already he's in my head talking. haaaa) saying, "What's wrong with liking something?  So what?"

SOOO my final answer in replying to this is:

I'm pretty ( Read more... )

So, haunted_sunny, your LiveJournal reveals...


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Let's not talk about novels now, hmm?  It's a bit of a sensitive subject at present.

..."The passing of prop 8"... that makes it sound like it died.  Unfortunately that is not the case.  Everyone who knows me probably already realizes how disappointed I am in California's decision, so I won't go into that.  However, I read an article in the Whittier Daily News today, "Prop 8 spawns slew of lawsuits", and there were a couple of ( Read more... )

Jonah takes a cruise to Puerto Vallarta to escape God's mission for her at Ninevah Elementary School but soon finds herself with a whale of a belly and all new, far more troubling responsibilities than teaching.

I don't have time for NaNoWriMo this year.  :-(

But I am stubborn and will be doing it anyway.  :-)

For people who do not know, NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. nanowrimo.org is the official website.  Participants promise that they will write 50,000 words during the month of November, an already hectic month full of thanksgiving, ( Read more... )

 The more I see those ridiculously offensive 'protect marriage' signs, the more apprehensive I get.  A man and  a woman, a boy and a girl.  How many marriages (besides my parents', ironically) really include a man and a woman and a daughter and a son?  America has got single-parent families, families with no kids, families with 12 kids, all ( Read more... )

In two and a half hours I will be at my substitute teaching orientation/meeting/thingy.

a) I am very thrilled to have a job.
b) even though people shudder when I tell them I will be substituting in public school elementary
c) EVEN though my ex-student's mother offered to give me mace for the job.
d) I am NOT thrilled, however, about the fact that ( Read more... )