January 2012
26 posts
Notes on student teaching
As I mentioned previously, I have now started the student teaching portion of my Master’s program at UIC. I’ve been at my placement school for about two weeks now and everything is going great so far. I really like my mentor teacher and etc. Here are the three most interesting/funny things I’ve observed since I’ve been there:
A student blatantly checking tumblr and...
True statements.
Brittany: You are from WESTCHESTER. You have NO STREET CRED.
3 tags
In tonight's gchat with Brittany:
me: i dont have time for contrarians
Brittany: Me either.
You're enough for me.
2 tags
3 tags
Stuck at student teaching orientation at UIC and I just checked my phone and saw that At The Drive-In are REUNITING!!!!!!! Freaking out in a room with like 40 other people right now!!!!!! AHHH!!!
2 tags
So you know how the entire internet is talking about Downton Abbey now? I had never heard of it until my parents raved about it when I was back in Tucson for Christmas. And then a week later, it exploded on the internet. The questions that are now begging to be asked:
a) Are my parents secretly internet trendsetters?
b) Are my parents secretly cooler than me?
c) Why is the internet all of a...
How I know I'm getting old:
Considering going to bed before 9 p.m. on a Saturday.
A DVRed Walking Dead marathon from last night?
Don’t mind if I do. Happy new year to me!
December 2011
26 posts
2011 RET·RO·SPEC·TIVE
I’ve sat down several times to write my wrap-up of this year, as I did last year and in 2009. I wasn’t exactly sure where to begin, so I read back through my two previous posts. In 2009, I remarked that 2008 was one of the worst years of my life because I was unemployed for close to seven months. Although I was gainfully employed for all of this year, thankfully, I would...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25) →
Wilco (17)
LCD Soundsystem (13)
Saves the Day (12)
Eleanor Friedberger (10)
Oxford Collapse (9)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-18) →
Eric & Magill (10)
St. Vincent (10)
Ryan Adams (7)
Atlas Sound (5)
Eleanor Friedberger (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
2 tags
U.S. War in Iraq Declared Officially Over →
It’s pretty unbelievable to think that the war is now over. Well, technically over, anyway. I remember when it started in March 2003, I was less than three months away from graduating high school. I heard the announcement during my Newspaper/Journalism class, and we turned on the TV to CNN and just sat there in relative silence, watching the grainy live feed of air strikes hitting targets...
1 tag
Apartment living in Chicago vs. Wilmington, NC:
Brittany: my apartment is enormous
I do not have that problem
me: ugh
and it's cheap too
wtf unfair
Brittany: Did I tell you about my dining room?
me: no, what?
Brittany: It exists
me: HAHAHAHAHAH
SO MUCH HATE RIGHT NOW
In exactly one month from today, I begin my roughly four-month long student teaching experience in a CPS school. Since two people from UIC have yet to be placed in a school, the department has to withhold the placements for all 200+ of us until everyone has one. This adds to my already mounting anxiety a significant amount. I have a list of four potential schools, so it has be one of those, I...
It's probably a bad sign that I'm sick of being...
Fuck.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-4) →
Jets To Brazil (70)
The Promise Ring (51)
Deerhunter (47)
Wild Flag (30)
Sleater-Kinney (18)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz