I can barely recall but it's all coming back to me now.

Time to own up.  

What is that song that old school song that you hear once a year on the radio or on your ipod when it's on shuffle that you just belt it out like nobody's business.  

You know what I'm talking about.  You're alone in the car or with a good friend and it's american idol finale go time.

I'll start: Celine Dion - It's All Coming Back To Me Now (Who can resist an 8 minute long power ballad?)

happy birthday to me.

My parents got me this wonderful invention I have been coveting for awhile. I first saw it at the house where I was a disciple now leader back in february. It is a Keurig Brewer! What does it do? What doesn't it do is more appropriate. It makes a wonderful cup of coffee or gives me a perfectly hot cup of water for my tea in less than 60 seconds. What's better is there is no measuring or cleanup with this holy machine (pretty much the sole selling point for me over a conventional coffee pot)! You just buy these single serve "k-cups" (you can buy them pretty much anywhere, target, bed bath & beyond, etc.) in over 150 different coffee and tea flavors and put it in the machine, let it do its rapid magic and then throw it away! It's great!

grad school is like...

...regular school on crack.

So I'm actually in class for 6 hours a day and on campus for around 10 hours a day if not more for work and then doing things that only people in grad school do, such as walk around surveying people about their high school curriculum preferences and finding books in the library and then making endless copies for some unknown reason, just because your professor told you to.

However, there is a silver lining. Two actually; one: it is for only 5 weeks and i'm almost 2 weeks in!, and two: 80% of what i'm learning is practical knowledge and immediately applicable once I start teaching. In fact I'm not sure how I would have started teaching without all the things I'm learning, I'm pretty sure I would have been awful because no one except teachers realize how much detail and organization is really necessary to have effective classroom.

So now I just need a job. But since all of us in my program will begin teaching in the fall we're all in the same boat, the jobless boat that is. There are a few that have jobs and those that do have them already are a result of some connection with a school district back home or from a family member, etc. But it is a little encouraging in a weird way that i'm not the only one without a job still. I had a screening interview with KatyISD on tuesday morning, it was more substantial than I was thinking it would be but it went really well, except there are no job openings yet.

I will post pictures from the cruise Brittany and I went on when I get the rest of the pictures, we usually only took one camera with us everywhere so I only have about half.

Back to work on more assignments...