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Currently… in July 2015
FEELING: Free! I cannot emphasize that enough, so let me try again: FREE!!! The final weeks of school were a mess and completely destroyed me. Any shred I was clinging to was completely gone. I have burned that to the ground and it is done. I know there’s a new adventure for me out there,…
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Five Times I Was The Coolest Teacher
Now that the school year is coming to an end, I feel like a soldier surrendering. Well, I tried. Well, it’s over. I feel like a failure, but there are students who brightened my outlook by sharing the times they enjoyed in my yearbook. You know, there were times when I actually kind of nailed…
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Greenpointing
My new neighbourhood is the greatest! I’m so excited to be a Brooklyner, especially in such a quaint, adorable part of town. Over the past weekend, I had the chance to explore and photograph just a small handful of places around town (and dine at them). No better way to beat the heat than with…
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A Mile in Grown-Up Shoes
Let’s face it: being an adult is hard, from your head down to your toes. You not only have to think and act like an adult, you also have to dress like one! I have been mostly successful at avoiding this until yesterday, when special circumstances warranted that I wear…grown-up shoes. I picked a pair…
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Days of Daze
I feel absolutely dreadful for not keeping up with this blog how I used to. And then I remember I feel absolutely dreadful in general. I’m one of those people who spends the beginning of allergy season in a complete daze. I can’t stop sneezing. I can’t sleep at night because I can’t breathe. I…
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Currently… in May 2015
FEELING: reinvigorated: blue skies are my high. I’m a summer baby, through and through. Seeing sunshine (even though it’s still blustery and cold) is giving me hope for warmer temperatures ahead! WATCHING: The Twilight Zone for my lesson planning. Work has consumed my life. More on that later… LISTENING TO: Mad new wave. Two new…
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Sunday Stealing: Funky Twenty-Five
1. Most unflattering hairstyle you ever had? What made it so unflattering? I got a really unfortunate bang trim a while back and actually stopped going to that hairdresser because of it! I don’t really know how to explain what she did, so here’s a picture – it made my forehead look like a toe. …
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Jiminy Crickets!!
To most of us in the 20’s-30’s age range, weekends are a time to do stupid stuff. Stupid, weird, bonkers, ill-advised stuff. We go wild! Like, really wild! Like, eating bugs wild! Well, don’t you? It all started with a conversation between my boyfriend and his roommate about eating bugs. No stranger to bug-eating, my…
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Small Town Charm: Owego & Corning, NY
When you live in The Biggest City On Earth (well, at least The Most Important Big City On Earth), sometimes it’s nice to get away from it all. That’s why Brooklyn exists! J/K Brooklyn, you know I love ya, betch. So when I go upstate to visit family, I always insist on stopping in my…
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Sunday Stealing: The ” I ” Meme
This Sunday Stealing is all about ME!! So here’s a picture of me, in case I forget what I look like: Nice. Anyway! On with the stealing! I am… ready. I want… chocolate pretty much all the time. I have… coffee in the morning and tea at night. I wish… I knew the ending of…
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Sunday Stealing: That One Thing…
That one thing… That makes you smile: Puppies falling down. I’m sorry. It’s the truth. That makes you cry: I cry at reality television. I am that pathetic. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition always got me in the feels. That you love to do on the weekends: It’s my only chance to sleep. I love staying…
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Here Comes The Sun
I am a July baby, that’s for sure. I think I actually hibernate during the winters, until my true self can come out at the first sign of Light Jacket Weather. Which is exactly what we’re starting to have up here in the frozen tundra New York City. After the winter we’ve had, it’s…
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Just the Facts
It’s been a while since I’ve posted one of these memes and I picked this one up from an old classmate of mine from back before the turn of the century… Crazy Tragic Sometimes Magic Michael went to high school with me! Isn’t it strange how paths cross again later in life thanks to the…
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Trader Joe’s Tuesday: Hummus Salad Dressing
Trader Joe’s Hummus Salad Dressing Tastes Like: Cilantro. Totally honest here. There’s a good bit of cilantro here, but if anyone can make cilantro SING!, it’s Trader Joe. The flavour is distinctly hummus, the texture reminds me of sushi-restaurant salad dressing – creamy but very thin – best of both worlds, if ya ask me!…
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Kill the Poor
When I quit my dead-end retail job to pursue the goal of becoming a teacher, I knew it would be hard. That’s why I didn’t leap at the dream the first time around. This year, I was offered a job that would put my foot in the door to achieving my dream. And as predicted,…
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Update On The Teacher Life
For when you realize that not only is this job paying you a pittance, but it’s actually costing you more money to work than not. So I’m still teaching and I’m still toughing out 55-hour work weeks at the rate of, depending on overtime, less than $5 an hour and thanks to a tax screw-up,…
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Owning It
This week celebrates a kind of monumental anniversary for me. Last year, I had to put an end to an unfortunate situation that I found myself in. I share this in the hopes that my story helps someone else own something that’s happening – or has happened – to them. On July 28th, 2012, I…
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Better Loving Through Science
This New York Times Modern Love article made the internet rounds a couple of weeks ago, but with Valentine’s Day coming up (and you know how much I love Valentine’s Day!), I thought this was a perfect time to share it. In the article, Mandy Len Catron talks about using a series of 36 Questions…
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Skin Sack and Poop Factory
What a title. Bear with me. In a conversation with my boyfriend some weeks back, the idea of self-image came up. I divulged that when I think of myself as a physical being, the first thing that comes to mind is a misshapen skin sack. The skin of my body: scars, tattoos, fat, hair, rashes,…
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Currently…in February 2015
FEELING: Excited! February has my second-favourite holiday – Valentine’s Day! As a (usually hopeless) romantic, I’m a sucker for chocolate and hearts and chocolate and roses and chocolate and love songs and chocolate! During February, everything red and pink is VALENTINES!!! Lovey-dovey and sweet and perfect and I’m thrilled! WATCHING: I just got all caught…