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Long time no see…

Hello blog. I have been neglecting you. It’s been almost a month and a half since I last wrote. Weeeeeeird.

I’ve been subbing like mad whoa… I’ve subbed 15 days at Fairport since March 6th. It’s been pretty awesome. I’ve been having fun being a different type of teacher every day… math, Spanish, English, reading lab/student learning center, math lab, etc etc etc. I’ve been enjoying it a lot!

I finished my Capstone and presentation. I’m so glad it’s done! Except now I’m having the worst time focusing on the little bit of homework that I have left to do for coaching. Hence the update. LoL.

My graduation is May 9th, and then I won’t be a student anymore which will probably be the strangest thing ever… I’ve been a student since I was what? 5? 4, if you count play-school and preschool… It’s going to be surreal not being a student. I can’t wait to have time to get through the books that I want to read instead of ones I have to. Although the list of have to still exists, because people keep suggesting/lending books to me… so yeah, I guess it’s still kind of assigned reading.

I’ve been engulfed by wedding planning. T minus 13 months. :-) I thought I had figured out my flowers, but now I’m not sure… I was thinking of just doing roses (orange and pink) for the bouquets, but I’m back to liking the idea of mixed flowers… roses and alstroemeria and maybe gerbs… I dunno. I’m so indecisive.

We have a reception venue, Burgundy Basin Inn in Fairport. It’s closer to the church and has a special with a local hotel with a shuttle and everything. Yay.

Okay, I probably have more to talk about… but I have to actually get this homework done. Last homework ever!! (that I’ll be doing… not assigning).

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Wow…

I just registered for my last semester of classes.
How freaking weird is that???

My schedule for next semester:

Tuesday 4:35-7:40– Literacy Coaching Practicum.
Thursday 4:35-7:40– Research, Analysis and Presentation– the 2nd half of my capstone class.

Wow… kinda surreal.

I love Joel.

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Back at work for a week? Already?

Today was the final day in my first week back at Wegmans (although technically according to Wegmans scheduling Sunday counts as the next week, but shhhhhh). I worked over 30 hours this week, which is great because it means about 30 bucks shy of 300 dollars!! but at the same time it kinda sucked because on Monday, I apparently had left the department a mess and didn’t listen to the produce manager and was slacking off… none of which I recall, but Rachel took me aside on Thursday to ask what went wrong and to remind me that she didn’t hire me back just to stand there and look pretty. I know I wasn’t 100% on Monday, but I hadn’t slept the night before and it was my first day back and the first thing that happened was that someone’s order hadn’t been put together! Not that I’m just making excuses, but it was kinda overwhelming. Saturday was the Fairport senior ball so we had over 200 orders and that was ALL we did all day Saturday. I got there at 9:30 and made corsages and boutonnieres until 6:15… with a 20 minute lunch in there somewhere. Luckily corsages/bouts are probably one of my favourite things to do at work, as long as the customer isn’t standing right there as I make it. 30 hours was probably a bit much, when you add in my class and everything else… but I need the money.

Speaking of class, it’s going well, I guess. I still don’t feel like it applies all that much, but it doesn’t seem like it’s going to be too hard/work-heavy, so I can survive. I’ve gotten to the point in my graduate studies where I am just desperate to get it over with. Knowing that with this class I have broken the boundary into the 2nd half of my program is thoroughly exciting. Although this class that I am taking would have been WAY more helpful before my first practicum, because we are learning all about guided reading and all that b.s. that has to do with younger learners that would’ve been REALLY NICE when I was working with a 2ND GRADER!!!! *sigh* Wow, I just realized that in 4 weeks this class will be done and I’ll be working on my 2nd practicum. Weird, summer classes are crazy short. :-)

I gained 3 pounds this past week, because I didn’t write down ANYTHING I ate… which I guess shows how important the journal is to Weight Watchers success. So that puts my weightloss back at 3 pounds total instead of 6. Boo. But I have been writing everything down and I plan on working out a couple times this week and really working on eating more healthily, so hopefully I’ll be more successful. My friend, Gail, is coming to WW with me… which is nice because it really is easier to lose weight with someone there to support you (and someone to compete with… which I know is NOT what WW is about, but it helps me… oops).

Joel has his first day at eLogic tomorrow and I’m super excited for him. I don’t think he’s excited, because he doesn’t want to be a grown-up yet, but its exciting nonetheless. We’ve also been looking at apartments for him to live in, which has been interesting to say the least. He doesn’t tend to start things without being shoved in the right direction, so I called places and set up appointments and went with him, but now the decision is his, because it will be his apartment, not mine. Although I’ll probably a fair amount of time there… I just can’t live there because his parents would freak out. *sigh*

Being back at Wegmans and surrounded by flowers has gotten me thinking about wedding plans again… even though Joel hasn’t even proposed yet… but I spent most of my shift today planning out what flowers I want in my miiiiind, while helping customers and whatnot. I feel like such a crazy girl. I wish he would just propose so I’d be less insane and more intelligent for planning ahead. LoL. He’s been hinting that it might be soon, which would be great. :-) I want him to do it when he is ready, so I’m thinking it’ll probably be a few months so that he can settle into work/a new apartment before doing it…. or something. I dunno. For all I know, he could hand me a ring tomorrow. I really just need to stop thinking about it. *silly girl*

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Tiptoe…

Here goes.

I’ve had a livejournal for five years, but I don’t think I’d call it a blog. So this is new ground for me.

I’m currently a 2nd semester grad student in a Literacy (birth through 12th grade) Education program. I want to be a high school English teacher, but have yet to work a day as a teacher (other than student teaching). I’m questioning everything about this choice right now. I quit my grocery story customer service job to pursue my teaching, but have not yet made any great leaps and bounds toward my goal. Well, other than graduating with a 3.33 overall GPA and a BA in English and Adolescence Education and my Initial Certification. That might sounds like a lot but it feels like nothing. I’m constantly being told that I need to be multi-certified before I’ll get a job, so that’s where the Literacy program comes in. It will not only certify me to teach literacy or be a literacy specialist, but it will allow me to have my permanent certification to teach in New York State. I’ve recently realized that the permanent certification is the only reason why I’m going to stick with it. I don’t want to be a literacy specialist, I definitely don’t want to teach in the younger grades. I just want to get this freaking Master’s Degree and move on with my life. I’m not even sure at this point if I want to teach at all. Then again, I felt that way before I student taught and when I was student teaching I knew that it was what I wanted to do with my life, what I needed to do with my life. I’m just questioning myself right now and all I have are grad classes that are wasting my time; grad classes that are interesting, but not challenging; and a practicum.

Now, a practicum class shouldn’t be that awful. It just means I should be applying the knowledge that I have attained throughout my program thus far at SJFC to a student. The only problem with this is that said student is a 2nd grader with ADHD who is behind in reading and writing… oh, and the fact that the classes I took in my first semester taught me next to nothing about actual instruction. Read the rest of this entry »

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