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June 25, 2006
sigh
January 07, 2006
miracle
January 05, 2006
a woman's worth
January 04, 2006
nothing
December 20, 2005
looking back

Last night was my weekly jaunt out of the house. It was fun, aside from eating way too much at the Chinese buffet. Very evil I tell you. That much rice should not be legal.

In a final push to get rid of my last couple of books and cds, I signed up for Swappingtons. It seemed great, kinda what I had been hoping that barter would have become. The thing that is tough is that I have found so many things that I would love to have, but alas, I have no points yet....Of course, you can fix that if you go sign up at the site and tell 'em retrogrrl sent ya! :)

My ebay auctions have been coming along quite nicely. I only have one thing without a bid, which makes me sad, I hope it sells. I think all in all my ebay selling experience has been really good. The great thing is, I made enough money with my auctions that I did not even feel badly about buying Jim's birthday present this weekend. It's really cool and I hope he likes it. Of course, then later when I went on ebay to check my auctions I found some great Yankees tickets, which pissed me off because the prices were amazing, but I can't just go and buy them, since I don't know his schedule. That's one thing that sucks. Even weekends are not guaranteed free. I tried calling him yesterday, but I think he has a conference this weekend - it's so hard to keep track.

Hmmmmmm...my life can't possibly be that boring. What else have I been doing? Well, Friday, finally free from my class, I went to work. The class I normally work in was on a field trip so since the reading recovery teacher was out, I did that for the day. Man, my methods class sucked, because the only reason I made it was because I had worked with the reading recovery teacher at the school I worked at as an undergrad. That and I had read about it in this amazing book I bought like two years ago. Anyway, in the morning I had 4 half hour sessions with 4 first graders. I think it went really well. The wheels in my head starting spinning, and I am thinking that in a few years I would not mind getting trained to do reading recovery. Of course, in a few years there will be like NO money for public schools, so a great program like that will probably be scrapped. Dammit. Then in the afternoon the sub plans said to go into work with a third grade class. Woo! I thought this would be great since in eight days I will be starting my prac in 3rd grade.

They are so little! I knew there was going to be a difference, but it still kinda threw me for a loop. The transition might be a little harder than I thought. Hmph. It was still really good. And then there was reason number 43098025827 why my math methods class was great: they were playing this number game we played in methods class. Otherwise I wouldn't have been able to just jump right in.

Well, I should spend today and tomorrow (hopefully I can get most of it done today) writing my final paper for the evil winter class. I think my topic will be an exploration of the book Joey Pigza Swallows the Key - it's the story of a child with ADHD. The paper has to be 7 pages, so I figured if I do summary, critique, and then the accomodations I would make for Joey I will be all set. ;) I just need to keep repeating 30% 30%30% 30% (of my grade).

Ta!

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