freakwriter tagged me on this one, and I'm glad that she did ( Read more... )

Well, I haven't been good at posting much on any Internet blog forum. However! In the interest of granting better access to those not a part of the Live Journal landscape, I've started to post with Blogger. You can check out recent posts of my Austrian travels at the following address: Leave a comment

Because I'm totally lame and not wanting to do anything more than the bare minimum, I present you with a travel countdown ( Read more... )

It's official. I passed my MA exam and, as long as I turn in two more papers and take a final, will graduate next Friday with my Master's in TESOL. All of this, of course, is very exciting. However, I just don't want to do anything. I'm not motivated to write a textbook critique or ten-page paper on adjective ordering in the English language. ( Read more... )

In an effort to procrastinate even more on my interview write-up, I give you a brief update that piggy backs on my last post ( Read more... )

A cheesey title, I know; however, at the moment I'm listening to the MSU v. Memphis basketball game -- disappointing in that State is ten points behind and it's only the first quarter, which makes me want to nervously bite on my thumbnail for the next 90 minutes ( Read more... )

Well, it hasn't been too relaxing of a Spring Break this year. Despite the amount of work I have gotten done, I still haven't been able to hammer through a majority of what I anticipated getting done regarding my exiting portfolio. I've got some ideas for materials and what I want the lesson plans to look like. I just need to finalize everything ( Read more... )

With the Euro v. dollar debate hashing out to a 1.52 conversion at the moment, I had to bite the bullet today and purchase my airline tickets to Dublin and Vienna. The complete price isn't much more than what I paid last year, but I had to suck in my breath when the 150-Euro ticket suddenly became a $300 ticket. At least they're round trip ( Read more... )

This morning I awoke at 4:30AM to finish preparing for this morning's 8AM reading class. I felt that I needed to be hyper-prepared since my skills supervisor was observing me. Lesson learned today -- my classroom management preferences are not my skills supervisor's preferences, which is okay, but it was extremely distracting when my the observer ( Read more... )

This afternoon as I was putting away the organic tea, soup, tortilla chips, salsa, bread, farina, and two pounds of granola that I purchased today at the East Lansing Food Co-op, I came to a sudden realization that I've officially become a "granola eater." Even though I patron Green River Cafe, a vegan-vegetarian organic foods cafe, use reusable ( Read more... )