so...from ryon, the name of the game is 5 things. basically, you comment on an entry, much like this one, and the person responds with 5 things they think of in connection to you then, you post and elaborate on each. THEN people comment on yours and the chain continues... yay!

here's mine?

1. Sesame Street
really? well, i guess it's fair, since i do consider the gem of my music collection to be ernie and bert's greatest hits. I also love mr. rogers. But, as a future educator, I feel like these shows have impacted me, and will continue to impact me, as i grow more and more disheartened as students ask me if i've seen the naked brothers band or hannah montana...

2. Papa Dell's Pizzeria
this is the one restaurant i have known about for a million years. being 3rd generation u of i, i've been down to this campus since i was little, and that is one of the main attractions in the food world here for me. in fact, ryon and i went there last night!

3. Ripley's Believe It or Not Aquarium
this was was cemented my intense dislike for large fish. the bigger they are, the creepier they are. end of story. additionally, there was this manta ray that just FOLLOWED ME THROUGH the aquarium. creepy. it was a pretty good day on cabin club 1.0 and it was nice to just be hangin' out with a couple of people, and not a million, as some of the journeys were on that trip.

4. Zeus on the Loose
it is a completely educational and appropriate children's math card game. do i need to elaborate on that? I DIDN'T THINK SO. so what if tim's creepy allusions to the more ... adult parts of greek mythology might make sense to a certain group of immature young adults... that doesn't change the value of the game! (though, now, i will never be able to use it in my classroom...thanks guys.)

5. Reggae music
it makes me happy. it makes me think of summer and saturday mornings, and the sun filtering into a room. i listen to it when i'm stressed, or when i need to get things done. i listen to it when i am happy and enjoying a day. i listen to it to find my center when i'm doing anything. i'm actually listening to it, and burning a cd to bring into school today in hope that it will tame my hooligans. good luck, right? :)

this has been a really bad week. ever have one of those? i did.

it started with getting cold. those make me more miserable than just about anything else. i know i sound gross when i have a cold, my head hurts, and all along, i'm telling myself and everyone else is saying "it's just a cold" which doesn't make me feel any less miserable, but it makes me feel like i'm lame for feeling that miserable. In addition, i'm getting serious cabin fever, and the classes i'm taking are more frustrating than helpful at this point. So, all week, i've been grumpy and out of sorts. Which means that i've been grumpy to people, and then feeling even worse for being a jerk.

then, yesterday, my mom gave me news that's both good and stupid, which made me sad, and after i dealt with it in my apt, i proceeded to (in a nice way) waste the rest of my day.

but. today is sunny. my apartment is messy. i have music. and hopefully i will be able to combine all three of those things into some thing productive.

1. Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter.
2. List (and upload, if you feel like it) 5 songs that start with that letter.
3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.


My letter is G!

1. Gracie, Ben Folds
This is one of my favorite songs, it's just so simple, and even though it's about a father/daughter relationship, it better describes my relationship with my grandpa!
2. Grow Old With You, The Wedding Singer
This song just makes me laugh, every time I see it...but it's still sweet...(this is from the broadway show, Stephen Lynch is pretty good :) )
3. Girl Put Your Records On (Acoustic), Corinne Baily Rae
There isn't a time that I don't start to dance and picture sunlight when ever I hear this song.
4. Get Low, Flo Rida
Really. How could I not?
5. God Only Knows, The Beach Boys
What can be said about this?


Honorable Mentions:

*God Must Have Spent A Little More Time On You - NSync
*Good Directions - Billy Currington (it's like a romantic comedy! In a country song!)
*Girlfriend - Avril Lavingne

. . .the end?

p.s.-i'll try to upload the songs here later, but for now, i'm in class!

hi livejournal!

i never post here!

i got nothin'!

one more exclamation point!

Hello Livejournal!

I was sitting here, doing homework, and thought to myself, why not write a lj post?! which, of course means, I'm feeling emo. So ... you know... I'm gonna give a not emo post a shot.

Things are going. I'm not going to say that they're going "well" because I'm struggling in my classes,well, one class in particular, but I'm not going to say "badly" because in just about every other area things are going pretty well.

The class I am struggling in is one that's pretty pivotal to my major and I feel like it's more of a personality clash than it is me just really sucking. At least, I'd like to think that. I know that I have a tendency to be lazy, and I know that I get stubborn when I don't like something. To be fair, everyone seems to get along with me just fine, so I am having a hard time believing that I am completely at fault for this? I'm definitely procrastinating right now, 'cause I need to kick it up for the rest of the semester, but I ... just stopping caring, about a few weeks ago? So, I need to finish this up and get moving so I can walk into tomorrow prepared.

On the other hand, I'm loving the people in my life. My friends are awesome and supportive, and very willing to badmouth people they don't know on my behalf. For those of you who don't know, I finally worked up enough courage to ask this really cool guy out, he said yes, and now that's added hardcore to the "awesome" parts of this semester.

So...I'm gonna call the semester to this point ... even? The good and the bad are kinda balancing out, and hopefully I am learning more about being a teacher.

That's about all for now.

I'm desperately waiting for Thanksgiving break, and after that, Christmas break, just to get out of preschool. I'm ready for second grade, and the Spring semester.

How goes things with you, friends on lj?

The summer is over.
School has started.

I'm not so sure how things are going to pan out in my preschool placement, i love the kids, but am struggling with the work load.

I'm at home this weekend. I have a load of laundry in the washing machine, and one in the dryer.

When I leave tomorrow, I am bringing my sister back to Eastern, which is an hour away from U of I, so 5 hours of driving to get to my little apartment that is 3 hours away.

Also, I have a lot of homework due this week, and I am missing preschool Monday for that silly ticket. boo.

Other than that, not having a job has worked out pretty well for me. I have no internet, but that's alright, 'cause I can get it at Ben,Matt,Mike, and Jess's, Jenn and Sarah's, or the Stoughton apartment, so I get to see people, AND use the internet! How awesome is that?

This is just a ramble post. Maybe I'll do better tomorrow...

one bloody nose
one night of sleep deprivation
one rebuke for lack of sunscreen reapplication
one pair of scraped up feet
two peanut allergies
nine tiny bladders
one pair of flying glasses on a grassy hill
eight billion trips to the washroom
five hulahoops smacking people
one spilled bottle of bubbles
one bladder control accident
one incident of being smacked across the nose with a jump rope

and

one pocketful of crushed flowers picked for me



somedays, everything just balences out.

being home is lame without my job starting.


that is all.

oy.
well, friends, it's been a while, but here's a quick entry.

all i can think about is the fact that my dad has a tendency to be kind of like a bear, stumbling around, swatting at things, and not being very accurate.

when i was at christina's today, we noticed that i was offline, which was not the way i left my house...i thought maybe the wireless connection had dropped me or something...no.

i get home, and my laptop is open and the screen is black. it's shut down, not sleeping or hibernating, and i always leave it closed and flipped over when i leave. i figure when my dad came in to close my windows (which left my room super stuffy) he got annoyed at the energy i was wasting with a plugged in computer...(which, you know, they already have two desktops down stairs that are never off...so...really?) so he just shut it down, without exiting applications or saving or anything, happily enough, i didn't have anything open that i would miss if i lost it, but that's not really the point... but then, i noticed that he had pulled out my power cord. but left it plugged into the wall. so, it was still eating up the same energy it would be if he had just left my computer on. then, i am trying to turn on my ihome so i can listen to my ipod, and it's not responding...i do a minor maybe-it's-broken freakout in my head, then i go to look and see if it's plugged in...

it's not.

so, apparently, my dad tried to prevent my laptop from sucking electricity by unplugging it and shutting it down. he failed. like a bear, trying to fix a problem.

i don't even know if i should say something to him about touching my stuff...i'm not looking forward to a 'my house i pay the bills' rant, i've already heard it once this break.

...how many days until school starts up again?

it's good.

very good.