There are many points on which I feel like I’ve never lined up with what a “normal girl” should like: I thought planning my wedding was basically no fun at all, I like my steaks super bloody (almost rare) and of the extra-large variety, and I put off shopping for new shoes as long as …
The Current State of my Mind
I had three different post ideas for tonight (depending on my mood), and considering that I just got home around 8 PM, I’m in no mind for any of them. My mind has been buzzing with strange images that look much like the one above–visions of students yapping and jumping and shrieking and laughing and …
August Reading
My plans to read at least five books a month in the summer crashed and burned there at the end—between being away from home half the month and starting up school again, I just didn’t have nearly as much time as I thought I would to read. That said, I am pretty proud of the …
Tuesday Tell-All
*It’s a good thing I finally learned (mostly, anyway) to just embrace my pale skin because as you can tell, these legs look like they didn’t see much sun all summer. And you basically have to squint at the other two pictures in this post to see some of my limbs—my arms and legs seem to blend …
Thoughts On the Link Between Media & A Happy Life
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOMUIhQCm10] Since the hideous display of Miley Cyrus a couple weeks back, it seems that the focus has been–more than ever–on the degradation of values in the American media. Not only has blog after blog done posts on the spectacle and what we should do about it (several of them very well done), but my …
The 11 Most Common Types of Students
Photo via Every year, you can expect them—certain student personality types that seem to resurrect themselves over and over again, somehow managing to pop their way into every single one of your classes and into those nightmarish teaching dreams. Although stereotyping is generally discouraged, it’s hard not to sometimes when all of these types seem …
5 Adult Things I Stink At
Here I am, just three and a half weeks shy of turning 27, and there are still tons of “adult” things I totally stink at. When marks the true transition to true “adult” status? (I’ll tell you one thing–it’s definitely not turning 18, in my book). Perhaps some of these things I’ll never really be a natural at, …
Tuesday Tell-All
*Oh man–are we really only one week into school? That seems utterly and absolutely impossible, considering that I’ve already not-slept enough in the past week to make me tired for a month. *Here’s the good news, though: after last week’s first-day debacle, I purposely tried to scare the pants off of each and every student …