...really?

i am so far from a morning person but the thing is, i don't like to feel rushed so the earlier i have to be somewhere, the earlier i try to get up.

this morning i am substituting for a class at the institute at 9:30 but i don't leave here until around 9 or a little after. so why did i get up before 7? well, i could blame it on the mother & say i had to get up to move my car so she could get out of the driveway but if that were the only reason, i could have easily just parked on the street last night when i got home. another possible reason--i have lots of school stuff i *need* to work on (i.e. take-home exam due tomorrow, paper due next week, 2 research papers due later this semester, a million pages of Tolkien, 5000 sonnets (give or take a few) and the list goes on...). good reason, yes? well here i sit all ready to work on that take-home--it's even pulled up on my screen--but chances are (and you know as well as i do) that chances are, i'll wait until tonite after i get home from class to do it.

...so here i am, procrastinating like any good college student, and all i can think about is that old relient k song (college kids), which then leads me to limewire because i wanna listen to it, the song that is, and i'm too lazy to find my copy of the cd. and opening limewire is always a bad idea for me--once i start, i think of something else i want to download and that something else reminds me of a different something else and before i know it, i've wasted away the time into nothing.

well before i ramble on too much, there are a few things that i want to say.
1. i've corrupted sam & chrissy into going to starbucks with me between tolkien & sociolinguistics. if they go into debt, i take full responsibility.
2. last night's episode of gilmore girls was amazing but i fear that this is the last season.
3. i don't have enough patience to work with people who work with kids. the kids are fine for the most part--it's the adults, who feel the need to turn an after-school program into a nazi workcamp, that i have trouble dealing with.
4. i change my mind more than a fly changes directions.

14

Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you
As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;
That I may rise and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend
Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
I, like an usurped town, to another due,
Labor to admit you, but O, to no end;
Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,
But is captived, and proves weak or untrue.
Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain,
But am betrothed unto your enemy.
Divorce me, unite or break that knot again;
Take me to you, imprison me, for I,
Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.

I went this evening to visit with Moniza--it has been since before she had the baby and as you can see, the baby is now about 6 months old. and alina. wow. she'll be 4 years old in another month which is crazy to me. i swear she's grown about a foot since i last saw her and she talks non-stop, now.

so stinkin cute.

i love these kids.

and a yummy sidenote, moniza asked me to stay for dinner--they're fasting during the day for Ramadan so i kind of felt like i was intruding but she encouraged me to join and i was glad i did. i love her cooking!! i don't know what it was called but it was a soup-type dish, very spicey with lentils and meat, then flat bread on the side. mmmmm... she was telling me that i can stop by and have dinner with them whenever i want. i laughed and told her she shouldn't have said so cuz i just might take her up on that.

well, i've done nothing for class so i guess i should go be productive......

♥

i taught my first actual ESL class today. 

and i loved it!!

prolly a good thing seeing as how this is what i plan on doing with my life.

i guess it was perfect timing because, with the *crazy* kids at the afterschool program, i was starting to wonder if i wanted to spend my life doing this.  i was simply reminded today that i want to teach ESL to adults as opposed to getting a K-12 teaching job.

so i got this card in the mail & it made me smile.

between nathan, jeremy, billy, aaron, bruce, tommy, and amanda... serious smiles.

thanx, friends.

if any of you are reading this, i miss you guys & i'm sorry for being such an idiot.

♥

edit:: 'tis dane cook.