Reddish-Brown

I've been doing poorly at school lately. But it's okay, because I got my transcript the other day, and I'm still one! And I found at that the number two's (or I'm pretty sure she's the number two) GPA is .03 behind me, which should be just large enough for me to be able to hold on to it. Just thought you guys should know. I've had a four day calculus exam throughout this week. First two days went really badly (free response). Today I actually did okay though (multiple choice). I hope tomorrow goes okay.


We have a strong chance of snow Friday. It should start snowing Thursday night. By Friday mid-morning we have 100% chance of precipitation. It would be wonderful to get out Friday, I have a lot of things due.



Life is good I suppose. I'm happy for the most part. All of my friends are happy too. 63 days until Europe. There are lots of good concerts coming up in March that I want to go to, although not all of them are in town... we'll see about those... And I don't really know who I'll convince to go with me to Joanna Newsom. I wish I had more time to play music, but I've been fairly busy lately. Each day though I am thankful to not be outside playing lacrosse, as my wonderful exteammates are doing currently. That tends to put me in a good mood. Maybe I'll miss it when games start, but for now, I'm perfectly content.

peanuts

beginning of another week. hope you are all doing well!! :)

love,
biggest sis

NOT THE MAMA!!

I have so much to tell you all! But since it is already late, and I'm tired, I will edit this post tomorrow and really catch you up. But here is a crazy childhood memory to make you smile :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGfeDMJU0_w&feature=related

I’m currently in route to st. louis with mom, grammy, and taylor. Grammy and mom are being very chatty and talking about family and stuff. We’ll probably be there in a couple of hours. I’ve been reading the seventh Harry Potter. Taylor’s been sleeping (waking him up to leave at 1:30 this afternoon was pushing him out of his normal schedule :P)

 

Hrm…. I’m kind of excited about going back, kind of just nervous. It’ll be good to see my friends and get settled in. After this week of new things I will be fine. My very first class is on Tuesday at one and it’s a drawing studio from one to four with taylor. What a good way to start off.

 

This past week has been very low key. Mary left, and Becky went back to school, so I have mostly just been hanging around the house, catching up on what not to wear (the new hair stylist is awesome!) and hgtv house hunters. I started a blog for my artwork so you all can stay caught up on my projects and whatnot. It’s 23drawings.blogspot.com. I’ve gone ahead and filled it with my high school projects…

 

Um, on Thursday I made a trip over to utk to see mccallie. I took dad’s white car and met her around 4:30, after her classes had ended.  It was really fun. We ate dinner with her friends and hung out with her roommate and suitemate. All very fun. The following day I hung out with Scotti and Rachel Radford while Mccall was in classes. I liked being there a lot. Mccall’s good friend and suitemate Molly was really cool. We also made a cover of tik tok (I know its shameful) with mccall being the banjo and me singing. It’s oooober embarrassing. Check out Amanda’s facebook wall. After getting back Friday night with mccall (she came home for the weekend to get her car from the shop) we hung out with dejong and taylor. One night we drove out to some park far away and stargazed J and then another night we reminisced about old computer games and tv shows. LIKE DINOSAUR!! What a GREAT show!!

New things.

I was thinking about where to begin with updating y'all on my life.  Not sure so I'll just dive in.  School started back last week, I like my schedule because I have 3 classes back to back MWF and 2 classes back to back T/Th.  I have a class with Dr. Lewis (Cambodia professor)!  By yesterday, I was already feeling burnt out.  Goooood.  But I'm enjoying campus and already being nostalgic of walking around UGA.  It's way cold (even though I am the most south of all four of us....I'm also a wimp).

(okay, so you'll notice the top of the dishwasher there is no tile...they had to do that to take out the old one, and instead of re-tiling it they are going to install a butcher block! aka wooden cutting board surface woowoo)

Life at Poplar, a few things are going on.  It doesn't really feel that different without Olivia here, it honestly just kind of feels normal in a weird way (it has been taking me a long time to fall asleep...something about having another body in the room just always helped me).  And I like how my room is set up now.  It's such a big room to have all to myself!  Our landlord Michael Littleton, who is a hippy and he and his wife are swingers....he's a really strange person, has been showing the house to potential tenants for next fall.  Weird.  He de-briefed with Ellyn, Alison, Becca, and I after 3 groups had come to see the house, and asked us if we thought any of them had the potential "right vibe/energy/aura" to be Poplarians.  This is my life.  WE GOT A NEW STOVE AND A NEW DISHWASHER!!!!!  I'm so pumped, our dishwasher had broken a bit before Christmas break and the stove was crap.  Now we have a swank new dishwasher and the stove is retro and old and is a double oven!  Super cool.  Hehe.

(my room, sans Olivia and her bedroom items)














(Lindsey, your painting of Ta Prohm hangs in my "reading nook")

(I do like how the door serves as a bedpost, it lines up well)










I saw It's Complicated the other night (Meryl Streep and Steve Martin), it was cute and I really wanted to live in Meryl Streep's home in the movie.  PS there is this blog that I happened upon that I am obsessed with called Design*Sponge .  I think you guys will like it too, it's just cheery and talks about decorating and home and food and other stuff.  Domesticcc.

I had another couple of therapy sessions with the Psychology Clinic, also.  It's still weird talking about my feelings and feeling like everything that I say is either convoluted or contradictory.  I feel like a crazy person, but I do really like my therapist, he's very encouraging.  But I'm going to be doing a CBT type program (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy).  All of it is going well, I'm glad I'm doing it, but I've realized how little I let myself talk about (and even feel, to some extent) my emotions and my negative thoughts.  It's an adjustment for certain.  2010 will be a ridiculously change-filled year for me, keep me in your prayers please.  I need y'all.  And I thank you guys for being irreplaceable and strong and everything that you all are.

I miss you guys like crazy.  I want to be with y'all again.  Rachel, we are thinking about either roadtripping to D.C. for Spring Break or going to Asher's aunt's house in Ft. Lauderdale.  We're torn, but I will keep you posted.  Oh also, Vampire Weekend's new album came out today, I'm beginning to check it out.

MIA's latest. She rulez.

Love you all,
MK

Blogging at School...

Again its seventh period, and I realized that I won't have another opportunity to post for the next three days, so I realized I needed to now! Today after school, Kelsey and I are leaving to go work for this event for her dad's work this weekend. I'm so excited! We're missing school tomorrow, get to stay in a hotel, do fun jobs and eat good food, and best of all, get paid for it! I come back early Sunday morning, and I won't even have to be stressed thanks to MLK day monday. I'm glad because these past two nights have been a bit stressful, I've had lots of tests and quizzes and essays and all that. School is going well though, I'm trying really hard in Spanish, because I realized that this is it. It's my last semester with Doc Tom, and I'm starting to feel like it's now or never.
I'm also stressed about other college stuff. Mrs. Eggleston came up to me and kinda insinuated that I should try to find another letter of recommendation, b/c Mr. Stelmaszak's aren't helping people. I don't think its going to hurt me, but when it comes down to tight scholarship stuff she said I should try to find another asap. Right after, she saw Mrs. Powell in the hallway and asked her, because I saw Mrs. Powell right after and she already knew about it and said she would, so thats good. All of this went down in a matter of about 5 minutes, around 30 minutes ago. Just a little added stress to my day. But, I'm not going to be here tomorrow so I won't be able to give Mrs. Powell anything until Tuesday, which is not so wonderful. Stress stress stress. Yikes.
Anyways, I'm just going to let myself enjoy this weekend because there's not really anything I can do about it now. So, I guess my life has been pretty blah lately, but I'm happy.
Rachel, I'm sorry to hear that you've been so busy, just know that we're thinking of you and very proud of you. Kwin, what's been going on in your life, I'll call you sometime this weekend? Lindsey, have fun at UTK.
Love you sisters!

whistle while you work

hi sisters! no one has blogged in forever so i thought i'd go for it. i am putting off doing some teacherly things for the evening. although i don't really know if you can call it "putting off" since i just got home at 7:00, was on the phone with a parent for half an hour, ate dinner, put on pjs, washed my face and brushed my teeth and am JUST NOW sitting down for the night. my days are so busy, it sucks.



one thing i've noticed that i don't like about my current schedule is the lack of sunlight in my day. it has been below freezing here since i got back, and the sun sets so early. i can't wait until the days start getting longer, and warmer, and i can run outside and get my daily allotment of vitamin d.

what's new with me? work work and more work. i got my virginia driver's license this past weekend, although it hasn't come in the mail yet. vanderbilt won against florida this weekend in basketball, which is exciting! i think we'll be really good this season and it's exciting to have something to root for. i had to write a college recommendation letter this weekend, which was WEIRD. i thought i would be able to get out of it since no student wants a teacher they've only had a semester to write one, but this girl was a transfer student who was new this year.

becky, how is college stuff going? i guess you're doing fafsa and all of that. lindsey, how was your bunko party? is it nice to still be home? does it feel like last year? mary, how is your last semester? does it feel weird to be taking your last few classes, or good? i miss you all so much and i'm sorry there's never time to call. i'm hoping that i will get back into the swing of things soon but this past week has been really hard and felt impossibly long. this three day weekend can't come soon enough. (who am i kidding, spring break can't come soon enough.)

i am getting mentally bogged down with the class i am teaching, because i am unhappy with the book and i'm not sure how to structure the class differently to promote more independent thinking from my students. also, i think that many of them can handle more rigor in the class, but i don't want it to be "hard" in the wrong ways. semester grades are due next week, along with comments for students with low grades, so that will be a TON of work and probably kill my weekend. oh well.

i'm really hoping that next year will be easier. i don't understand how this year is wearing me down so much when i just have one prep (2 classes) and learning center. the sad thing is i am working so hard and i feel like it's for very little gain. i swear i worked less than this when i was student teaching and i was a WAY better teacher. oh well.

anyway, overall things are good with me but i've already started dreaming of summer when i can rest and have time to truly explore the city.

how are things with you all, sisters?