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Jan. 29th, 2008 @ 04:28 pm sigh
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Life must be going alright for me right now, relatively speaking, as my biggest struggle is
trying to decided if I should get my hair cut short or let it keep growing long.
heavy heavy stuff.
Jan. 25th, 2008 @ 03:06 pm No future
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Okay!
What the hell!

Steve and our friend Ollie were awesome today and brough me lunch in today at work... 
I had already eaten so I told them to take the Chinese food home for me.
Ollie gave me a fortune cookie.
I opened it.

I, apparently, have NO future!

The fortune cookie had no fortune in it.

I suppose that is the pessimist outlook.  It could mean that my future is wide open to all possibilities.
Yeah. I suppose... poop
Jan. 24th, 2008 @ 08:35 pm Out of Time
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This song was in a movie we were watching in class today from 78 about a vet's experience.

I couldn't get it out of my head.  This is the first version done in 1966 by Chris Farlow, the Rolling Stones then did it in 1975.

I LOVE IT LOVE IT

Jan. 22nd, 2008 @ 06:39 pm in the middle of nothing
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For Christmas Steve really wanted to get my parents a little GPS unit to use when they are on their retirement traveling.
We all decided it would be fun to just get in the car, drive in a general direction and go through some small Indiana towns.
So this past weekend we went west toward Washington, Indiana.  It was a pretty drive and we passed through some interesting small towns.
We also discovered there are some Mennonite and Amish communities in these areas.  We also found a fun little cheese place. 
We bought some really awesome cheese and carmels.  Then we drove on toward Washington to find a place to eat.
We found an Amish buffet.
Oh my god did I eat!

The little waste not want not sign reminded me to clean my plate...each time... and to have two pieces of pie...
it was delish!  They had crab legs and frog legs too.  I couldn't bring myself to try to the frog legs.  Mostly because I love Kermit the Frog and more mostly because they still looked like lil frog legs.  And those dag on frog legs are so cute peddling a bicycle.

Steve did try them.  I had sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, meatloaf, stuffing, ambrosia salad, mac and cheese, corn, carrots, green beans, some broccoli salad stuff, and a piece of custard pie and a piece of coconut cream pie.  Holy cow! I hadn't really over eaten like that in a pretty long time so I was very pleased.  Then we drove home and watched movies with a fire in the fire place.  A great day!








Jan. 18th, 2008 @ 02:33 pm funny ha ha
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it is funny how just getting a post that says someone has added you as a friend makes you
feel all happy and excited.

so high school, but many times I feel like I haven't graduated high school, as my life since age 5 has been year after year of school years.  My life and time clock surrounds the workings of a school's  This might explain why New Years has always been way less exciting to me than the mid-August approach of the first day of school. 

My parents were teachers so they too operated around the school clock.  Now that they are retired they more or less enjoy laughing at us poor schmucks still stuck in the cinder block confines.  Even three years later my dad looks at his watch around 1 and will say, "wow! they have another 2 hours and twenty minutes left before the students even start to leave!"

Speaking from the experience of not being in a school for a year and a half  however the ritual of it is soothing.  (I was working with students who had been removed from the traditional setting for two hours a day) 
When I didn't have it I felt lost. 

Today was a great day, more or less.
I was working with a student who is pretty sharp and capable of what is being put in front of him but just lacks the desire to do it.  He will out right refuse.  As I was talking with him about what the deal was, what was his angle, every teacher had offered to help him individually he didn't say too much.  He is afraid to succeed.  I sometimes feel like that too.  What's the point or it isn't even worth it.  Another student said, "Lisa, you put more into people here and care more than any other teacher here.  I think you are under appreciated here for all that you do for us and you should be in a classroom with your own students."
I was glowing but then said diplomatically, that I can't take that kind of credit but that's very kind.

Yeah... schools not so bad.

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