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i lose myself sometimes

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Thelnie
All in a Day's Work, The Day Events
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In a 9th grade class, I notice one girl has a big book for Bronte books.

Me: Hey, what is that book?

Girl: Oh, I’m reading it for silent reading time.

Me: <grabbing the book and leafing through it> man…it’s huge!…….That’s what shhh….<gasp>

Boy: (that I’ve taught since his 8th grade last year): That’s what SHE said…!

Me: @_@….<pretending not to hear it and quickly walks away>

I need to be a lot more careful. I don’t know what got into me.

Officially Graduated

Thelnie
The Day Events
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I got an email today saying I am officially graduated.

It is kind of a relief.

Even though it was only about a month ago, that I was still taking finals…it feels like it was so long ago.

And just last week I had one of those dreams where you suddenly discover you’ve been missing a class for a week that you didn’t know you had for some reason? And that you’ve missed out on 2 quizzes. And you’re freaking out? Yeah, I had one of those last week. In the dream I thought “wait…what? I thought I thought I was done with all this?…”

It’s kind of surreal not to have that weight on my shoulders anymore.

Still a student of life though. Every day.

Subject matters clash!

Thelnie
All in a Day's Work
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Teaching today and something stuck me. In fact, about 3 things strike me every day I teach, but I tend to forget them. This one I still remember because it is most recent.

Kid: Can you help us on this question?

Me: Sure! <reads it over. It is a word problem involving velocity, time it took, and asks for how long the distance was>. Okay, so, you use this equation. V=D/T. Do you guys know your algebra yet?

Kid: This is science.

Me: ….uh…..okay but, do you know your algebra? What math are you taking right now?

Kid: But this is science. It’s from science class. We’re learning about velocity.

Me: ….right….but…this is math. You have to know the math to do this problem. We’re using algebra to find the missing variable, D, the distance the train traveled.

Kid: ….oooh……           …

Yeah…I’m not sure why the kid thought that you didn’t need to know math for a science question.

After college clean up and music

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Thelnie
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I’ve officially taken my last test in my undergraduate college career. Stats 7. A lot of formulas, and remembering concepts I will never ever ever ever ever ever use ever again. And I’ve forgotten half of it already by now.

After finals is the clean up. Papers shrewn all over my desk? Check. Books all over the floor around my chair? Check. Tons of cables and wires hooked up to my computer? Check. Oh wait, it’s always like that. 5 half filled water bottles…….somewhere? Check. And then there’s the randon miscellaneous snacky food wrappers that I don’t remember eating in the first place.

And then there’s the finals hair that I actually like. Finals week is the time you can wear almost whatever you want and you have an excuse for it. In fact, people assume you’re studying hard. If a girl was walking around with perfect hair and a thoughtfully thought out outfit (wow, that was extremely redundant), I would have my suspicions.

It’s an art, really, to get your hair like that. It takes lots of studying to get the right pieces of hair tousled. Notice I use the word “tousled”, not “messy”. An easy way to achieve this style is to go to sleep with your hair tied, and when you wake up the next day, the effect is complete.

Anyway, my music of choice to clean up right now is Jay Chou‘s second album, Fantasy, made back in 2001. I think this is my favorite album of his. Old school Jay Chou. I practically like EVERY song in this album. Unlike the recent albums where I can only pick out 1 or 2 now. Sigh. Do you need inspiration Jay? Shall I be your muse?!? And I just found out I don’t have his first album. @_@. Um…

Here is the fifth track on the album, 開不了口, or…”Can’t Open Mouth”…”Cannot Say” something like that. Basically “I can’t tell her that I like her!”

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