maybe i'm amazed

So today was a great day for me as a teacher. In my first period ELD class, my students gave group presentations, and were totally cute & awesome. They started their presentations all professional and, "Good morning class", and just did really fabulous jobs. Then in my second period Intervention class, we looked at a passage from Great Expectations to find character traits of Miss Havisham. I gave them background info on the story and characters, and they were totally into it. I have honestly never seen them more engaged or well-behaved. They wanted to read the book/watch the movie for extra credit, or watch the movie in class as a reward, and one girl (who is honestly my favorite student) goes, "Do you think they have this book in the library? I want to read it now". I wish I could just do stuff like this every day, instead of having to follow such a scripted program.

hard day's night

Can I really be done with PACT? Really? I can't even believe it. Here is a rough break-down of the assignment that basically took over my life for the past month:


**5 "tasks", that included...
-20 single-spaced pages of writing
-3-5 hours worth of lesson plans
-20 minutes of video (that took me about 2 hours to get onto the computer, edit, and save)
-scanned/assessed 3 student work samples, as well as the rubric
-scanned copies of the student assignments for the 3-5 hours of teaching time
-transferring ALL of this onto a website-like template, and linking it all up
-burning it all onto 2 CDs

God, I'm so glad it's over. I just want to turn in these CDs before I give in to the urge to break them.




And, on a completely different note....Seriously? Seriously! SERIOUSLY?!? Ahhhh. (I know that this doesn't make sense to anyone but me, but I am EXTREMELY irritated right now about something that has nothing to do with school, work, or me, really).

come together

God, I miss this show.




And Lauren, by the way.

eleanor rigby

What is with everyone that I went to high school with getting married? I mean, honestly. This is one of the reasons I have a love/hate relationship with Myspace.

Lindsey & I were talking about this the other day, saying how we felt like we were behind or something because we weren't married and/or pregnant. I especially feel this way, mainly because of how people look/react when they find out how long Rob & I have been together, and that we're not married, or even engaged. You'd think I just told them that I worship Satan, or eat newborn babies. But seriously? I fluctuate between feeling way too young/not ready for marriage, to wanting to get married with every fiber of my being (Corny, no? Imagine how I feel). But Robbie doesn't seem to be in any rush, and I'm really not either.

Sometimes.

do you want to know a secret

I'm in the process of homework/lesson planning/watching a movie (Hollywoodland, which is really good so far), but I just felt the need to see if anyone thinks I'm crazy because of this:

I'm strangely attracted to Adrien Brody.

I don't know if it's the big nose, the extreme lankiness (I do like skinny guys, which you know if you've seen Rob), or what, but damn. Maybe it's just this movie...I have a thing for 50's clothes and hairstyles.