Annapocalypse: Archive

Jan 24th

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Jan 24th

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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...

Jan 22nd

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Jan 20th

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True statements.

Brittany: You are from WESTCHESTER. You have NO STREET CRED.

Jan 17th

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Jan 17th

[Swearin’ - “Kenosha”]:...

Jan 16th

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Jan 16th

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In tonight's gchat with Brittany:

me: i dont have time for contrarians
Brittany: Me either.
 You're enough for me.

Jan 13th

Jan 12th

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Jan 12th

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Jan 11th

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Jan 10th

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Jan 10th

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Jan 9th

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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!!!

Jan 9th

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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...

Jan 9th

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How I know I'm getting old:

Considering going to bed before 9 p.m. on a Saturday.

Jan 8th

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Jan 6th

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Jan 5th

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Jan 4th

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Jan 4th

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Jan 3rd

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A DVRed Walking Dead marathon from last night?

Don’t mind if I do. Happy new year to me!

Jan 1st

Dec 31st

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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...

Dec 31st

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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

Dec 27th

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Dec 25th

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Dec 24th

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Dec 21st

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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

Dec 20th

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Dec 19th

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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...

Dec 15th

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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

Dec 15th

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Dec 12th

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Dec 10th

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...

Dec 9th