yeah. watch this. seriously.

you go, girl.

Tags: freakin' amazing
Current Mood: giddy

so, it's been crazy.

the good news: we have our computer back. well, this is sort of good news. really, it's kinda nice not having a computer to dominate life in the home hours. no more surfing the web until an hour past bedtime. life is better with less facebook or flickr... don't shoot the messenger.

not having a computer when you need it for your new part time job? well, that's a pain in the butt.

so, for those of you who don't know - i've been working two jobs for the past two months. two half-time jobs. funny how 20 + 20 simply doesn't equal 40. if only it did.

for the past two months, my second job has been working for these folks. if that sounds familiar, it should. this is the program through which i became a teacher. this year, they decided to bring in a handful of mid-year fellows. they were recruited in december. they were trained in january. they started teaching in their own classrooms today. say a little prayer for them, if you have a moment.

for the past month, i've been back in a school setting. i've been observing these fellows during their practice teaching. i've sat back and observed - for the good, the bad, and the ugly. i've told them what i saw that they did well. what i saw that needed improvement. shared ideas. strategized.

it's been good. hell, it's been busy. but it's been good.

this year. it's about discernment. at least, that was the idea. this is the year where i have only a part-time job to worry about. but now i have two. this is the year where i figure out what i want to be when i grow up. well, i still have some work to do there.

but these past two months have given me some clarity. being back in a school, being back around children: it feels right. this is in my blood. that is a good feeling, but it is also a terrifying feeling. and now i get to set about interpreting it. thinking about what the opportunities are.

oh, and renewing my teacher's license, which expires in august. i've got some work to do. oye.

but if you're wondering if this means i'll start teaching again, i'm fairly certain the answer is no. i'm fairly certain i do not want to teach eight subjects, manage behavior, act as a social worker, and plan into the wee hours again. i've been there. but i do want to be in a school. i do want to be involved in education.

at least, that's what i think.

deep breath. inhale. exhale. don't freak out.

Tags: look at me i'm really blogging!, school, teaching, what i want to be when i grow up
Current Mood: sleepy

so we're going on two weeks without a computer soon. yarg.

got it back last sunday. it lasted ten minutes before it crapped out again. so, if i'm incommunicado, know that this is why. it's off at the shop again, and will be back within a week.

way. too. dependent. on. internet.

our hard drive is dying. so we've had to give up the computer while the Mac Geniuses (how do you pluralize genius?) do their work. it will be a week. likely. *tear*

i am now limited to internet activity while i'm at work. which, because i am a reasonably moral person, will be very little. *double tear*

see you in a week or so...

Tags: computers, mac, what am i amish?

so i'm seeing a few themes emerging already:

1) blur!
2) it's not shaping up to be what i imagined it would.
3) and that's fine with me.



click on the picture, and it will take you to my flickr account... which will show you five whole pictures 2009 :).

Tags: project 2009

okay. i'm not even going to pretend that posting my daily pic is something i'll get around to every day... but i'll try a few times a week. if i have no rules, i can't break any :).

Tags: project 2009

-blog more
-photo a day
-figure out what i want to be when i grow up
-feel better about my weight/body

Tags: 2009, blog, photography

well, folks... it's been almost two months since i finished my threesixtyfive project. and i've been long debating what project to do next. and so here it is:

for 2009, it's people.

pictures of people. any kind of pictures. there are no rules. just people. every day. portraits, street, whatever. people. and there will be self-portraits. at least fifty-two of them.

to start: a self-portrait of friends, and a tribute to macsly. bye bye, macsly. she's off to san antonio. today was our last brunch... at least for a while. since i can't say anything single girl hasn't already said, i'll just do the lazy thing and link.



this isn't a technically spectacular photo. and that is one goal i have for this project: i want each picture to be high quality. but some times, one of these pictures that is more about memories than technicalities is going to creep through.

Tags: barbara, fifty-two, katie, project 2009

crap.