I don't when the last time has been since I posted. I should post more, but I always feel self-conscious in my office when "blogging." In any respect, I'm at Green River Cafe at the moment, sponging up their free wi-fi. Espresso Royale was full, Starbucks requires a T-Mobile hotspot account, and I don't want to be on campus right now -- so here ( Read more... )

This past weekend I saw the movie, Once, with my best movie watching pal, Harger, and two other friends. Even though I knew the premise of the movie -- a pseudo-musical focusing on the relationship between an Irish busker and a Czech immigrant -- I was really impressed by the melancholic music and realistic nature of the piece. I won't lie to you ( Read more... )

For the past thirty minutes, I've been zoning out and looking at people's travel photos on Facebook. With all of the things I need to be working on at the moment, this is not a good use of my time, but it's what I'm doing anyway. To make myself feel better, I will say that I'm multitasking by listening to Queens of the Stone Age's most recent ( Read more... )

I'm rollin' in it! After a slight payroll scare last month, I finally received the quarter time pay that I'm owed. The $500 extra per month will really help with my plans to take a walking tour of Italy this spring. Righteous ( Read more... )

This week has been quite the downer. Well, actually both this week and last have been downers. At the beginning of last week, my oldest sister was admitted to a hospital in KO for stomach pains. Three nervous days later, it turns out that she has pancreatitis. It is a relief to know that she got a proper diagnosis, but there is still ( Read more... )

Well, I've been extremely lax on updating. My life has escaped me, and I'm back into the full semester throttle that is grad school. The worrying thing is that I'm struggling with issues of wondering whether teaching is really the thing for me. I'm trying to rationalize that my grumps about my job right now are due to the specific population of ( Read more... )

Today, my three colleagues and I took a group of twenty-two students to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn and the Motown Historical Museum in Detroit. After this little excursion, I have one question for myself: Why the heck don't I visit Detroit more often? Well, technically, I don't have a car to take me to the Motor City at whim, but I should ( Read more... )

It's here. That chest-crushing, oh-my-God-what-have-I-gotten-myself-into late night Sunday feeling that visits me every time the work and school week are about to begin. In theory, I could be sleeping right now, but I'm not. Yesterday, I took too much time to have fun (slept in late, watched a movie, went to the Folk Festival, played two board ( Read more... )

Yeah! My conference proposal was accepted! In October, I'll be doing a workshop on self-assessment in second language classrooms at a state-wide ESOL conference at Eastern Michigan University. I better start polishing my materials...

Somehow I equate feelings of fulfillment with a stress-free lifestyle, and I am soberly reminded that this is not the case every time the end of a semester rolls around. When I get super stressed with school and work, I think to myself, "God, I wish I were anywhere but here right now." Along with this thought comes the intense feeling that I'm ( Read more... )