Almost sleepy time....

Look! I'm blogging...just like Megan told me to.

So, just in case you wanted to know, some people are ridiculous when it comes to assessment....if you say that you're going to create a lunch and learn program wouldn't you figure that the students are going to learn something from that??  AND, if you're going to assess it...would you put in the Methods of Assessment category  that you will "assess the program"? No shit sherlock...of course you're going to assess it, hence the name of this process.....

I have no hard feelings about that at all of course.  I went to Reno this past weekend.  Lake Tahoe is GORGEOUS!  I'll post pictures sometime soon.  University of Nevada, Reno is also quite pretty.   I really like my job lots on most days.  Sometimes they just don't give me enough to do.  I'm sure I'll regret posting that at some point soon. :)  I have managed, however, to schedule lots of meetings that involve trips across the street to Baskin Robbins.  

I made Andes mint brownies today and forgot about high altitude, but they may have turned out ok anyhow! :)

I've also decided that, next time I move, I'm getting an apartment with a washer and dryer in it.  Doing laundry is expensive.

Plane tickets are also expensive.

I like broccoli.

Youshi says hi....actually he said "let's go to bed mom"...but that's close to hi.

I love fishes cause they're so delicious.

That is all.

Miss you guys lots! You should schedule a skiing/snowboarding/tubing trip to come see me!

Love love

Stories from SD

Well, not really. I don't have any stories really. I'm just going on with my boring life.

I went to NYC a few weeks back and visiting there makes me want to move there. I absolutely adore it. And I mean, I love being in a city with my friends. San Diego has been so boring since you all left. I have such a hard time here when I'm not at work...and I have a hard time at work.

I've been watching lots of movies (using my netflix) and catching up on x-files episodes before the movie this weekend.

Dani and I are going to Colorado in a few weeks to visit our sorority sister Shannon. I'm really looking forward to it! Then...I get back right into the swing of things. School starts and we're back! Ah! I can't believe the summer went by so fast.

So yeah, no real updates, but I felt like posting to let you all know I'm still here...getting by.

Texas

So... I'm in Texas. I never thought I would say that sentence in my entire life. Weird.

After two and a half days with my mother and loaded belongings in the car (in addition to my grandparents' unexpected accompanying us on the road), we finally made it to San Marcos. That's Marc-us, remember (dumb). A few co-workers greeted me when I first got here, made sure I got settled enough to get started until Monday. And since then, it's been a little crazy. There are days I sit on my couch and wonder how I ended up here, what the hell am I doing here, and what was I thinking? There are days I spend in the river, floating down for an hour and a half, realizing why I loved the outdoors so much as a little kid. And then, there are times like right now, where I also sit on my couch and wonder why I'm not in California anymore.

One of my new (as in, she's new too) co-workers mentioned I always seem so happy, so perky, and that if she were me, she would be unhappy and miserable and not so excited to be here. And I said sure, there are times I'm not so excited to be here, but there's also a part of me that recognizes (also in part due to my parents' pointing it out) that the first three or four months for me, in any new place, I'm miserable. But I need to get settled, to figure it out, because if I'm miserable, and my students get here and they're miserable, and they see me unhappy-- they're going to wonder why they need to be happy at all too. And I don't want to influence them in that way.

Anyway. Pictures eventually. I just got my computer today, so I'm slowly catching up with the rest of the world again! Woo!

-M