Oooo...two in a row. Maybe I really am back. We'll see how long it lasts. Anyway...
Sunday my parents & I went to NYC. We drove in to Port Authority, walked through Central Park, and stopped at Ikea on the way home. Our main reason was to go to the Whitney to see their exhibit Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era. It was phenomenal. Amazing. And so much fun. The audio tour was a soundtrack of songs from the time. A huge part of the exhibit was a collection of posters, mostly from the Filmore & Filmore East. They were so cool. My parents were standing there trying to find concerts they'd been to. There were also a bunch of movies and light shows, created by some of the best of the time. My father & I went into one ("Lapis" by James Whitney), watch for a second, and then he turns to me and says "This would be so much better if you were on drugs." I swear. It was great. I almost died right in the middle of the museum, it was so funny. There were other interactive pieces as well. I think my favorite was "Phantasy Landscape Visiona II" by Verner Panton. It was a big room that was upholstered and had all these great curves and bumps that made seats & beds & shelves & stuff. Awesome. And you were allowed to get in and climb around. It rocked. All in all, a good day.
Tuesday I had an interview at Middlesex County College, and was given an algebra class. So now I'm up to three classes, and that means a lot of lesson plans. So that's basically my next few weeks - lesson plans and more lesson plans. Fun. Still better than the work I would have in a high school. Definitely thinking this was a good idea, taking college positions. I'd be dying if I were trying to do 25 lessons a week.
Anyway, back to work.
Later.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Saturday, August 25, 2007
I'm Back...
So, I'm sitting in the living room of my new apartment, trying to work on lesson plans for my new job teaching at Brookdale, and watching a show about the upcoming Rutgers Football Team. It's amazing to me how much interest there is in Rutgers now that we've had a winning season. New York has claimed Rutgers as "their" college team. Whatever. The first game is next week. I've heard the whole season is sold out already. We'll see. Maybe I'll get to one...homecoming or something.
So yeah. Where am I now. Ash & I moved to Plainsboro in June, though if you know me well enough to actually read this, you probably knew that already. Maybe some stuff not everyone knows yet.... We have a cat. Her name is Pi. She has two different colored eyes, purrs at the slightest touch, and will do absolutely anything to get brushed. I have a job for the upcoming semester, being a part-time professor at Brookdale. I'm teaching the two lowest math classes they offer - 011 & 012, but I'm still kind of excited about it. I'm kind of taking it as a second student teaching turn.... Extra time to figure out if teaching full time is really my thing or not. I also have an interview for another adjunct position next week. Depending on how that goes, that might be it for a few months. Oh, and some occasional subbing for extra cash. That'll be more than enough work. I'm still slated to make an appearance as the Tech Director for Matawan next spring. Not quite what I was promised, but I knew he wouldn't really give me both positions. Promised them last year too; didn't get them then either. No reason this year should be any different really.
Well, I think that's good for a little welcome back update thing. I'm def going to try to keep up, but we'll see how it goes.
Night all.
So yeah. Where am I now. Ash & I moved to Plainsboro in June, though if you know me well enough to actually read this, you probably knew that already. Maybe some stuff not everyone knows yet.... We have a cat. Her name is Pi. She has two different colored eyes, purrs at the slightest touch, and will do absolutely anything to get brushed. I have a job for the upcoming semester, being a part-time professor at Brookdale. I'm teaching the two lowest math classes they offer - 011 & 012, but I'm still kind of excited about it. I'm kind of taking it as a second student teaching turn.... Extra time to figure out if teaching full time is really my thing or not. I also have an interview for another adjunct position next week. Depending on how that goes, that might be it for a few months. Oh, and some occasional subbing for extra cash. That'll be more than enough work. I'm still slated to make an appearance as the Tech Director for Matawan next spring. Not quite what I was promised, but I knew he wouldn't really give me both positions. Promised them last year too; didn't get them then either. No reason this year should be any different really.
Well, I think that's good for a little welcome back update thing. I'm def going to try to keep up, but we'll see how it goes.
Night all.
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Millie
Matawan Aberdeen Regional High School
is proud to present:
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Thursday, March 22nd at 7:30 pm
Friday, March 23rd at 8:00 pm
Saturday, March 24th at 8:00 pm
Sunday, March 25th at 2:00 pm
In the Anne Hannah Auditorium
is proud to present:
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Thursday, March 22nd at 7:30 pm
Friday, March 23rd at 8:00 pm
Saturday, March 24th at 8:00 pm
Sunday, March 25th at 2:00 pm
In the Anne Hannah Auditorium
Directions from the HS website: Here.
New Brunswick: Rt 18 South to Rt 516 East towards Matawan. Take it all the way through Old Bridge into Matawan and cross Rt 34. The next light is Church Street, turn right. The first light is Atlantic Ave, turn left. The high school is on your right.
New Brunswick: Rt 18 South to Rt 516 East towards Matawan. Take it all the way through Old Bridge into Matawan and cross Rt 34. The next light is Church Street, turn right. The first light is Atlantic Ave, turn left. The high school is on your right.
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Two students, two bicycles, one million new trees - Page One
Two students, two bicycles, one million new trees - Page One
Sounds like a cool idea. We'll see how it goes.
plantingamerica.org
Sounds like a cool idea. We'll see how it goes.
plantingamerica.org
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Friday, January 26, 2007
Sunday, January 07, 2007
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Happy Holidays!
Oxfam is a great way to make a huge difference for a lot of people with only a little money. They definitely know how to spread it around. And they have all kinds of presents. I want one of these:
Friday, December 01, 2006
Almost
The semester is almost over. There's about two weeks left in my student teaching. I can't believe it'll be over already. But at the same time, I can't wait.
Ah, to sleep past 6am. to not be so tired when I get home it's all I can do to make it into bed.
Ah, to sleep past 6am. to not be so tired when I get home it's all I can do to make it into bed.
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Deep Thought :-P
Deep Thought 10/23:
Hypothesis: God must be an atheist.
Point 1: We define god as the supreme being of the universe.
Point 2: Atheism is the lack of belief in a supreme being greater than yourself.
Discuss.
Hypothesis: God must be an atheist.
Point 1: We define god as the supreme being of the universe.
Point 2: Atheism is the lack of belief in a supreme being greater than yourself.
Discuss.
Monday, October 23, 2006
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Busy busy busy
Life has gotten pretty busy lately. And I've been ignoring some things that I really shouldn't, like keeping in touch with people. Sorry about that.
Work is nuts. Since I'm away next week, I have to get everything done this week. So that means cramming a lot of work into a little bit of time. Not fun. Stephanie is out this week too so I don't even have someone to talk to.
Cleveland was great. I absolutely love going to the PEZ Conventions every year.
The weekend before that was all the parties and birthdays. Much fun was had by all I dare say.
It really was a great time. I think we needed that. I know I did anyway.
Now though, I have to unpack from Cleveland and then repack to go to Vegas. I'm leaving Friday afternoon, skipping out of work early :-) I need a vacation. This'll be good; nice and laid back cause it's just Vegas and not like ten other places too. So I should be able to chill a bit. Thank goodness.
48 hours and I'm on vacation.
tick tock
Work is nuts. Since I'm away next week, I have to get everything done this week. So that means cramming a lot of work into a little bit of time. Not fun. Stephanie is out this week too so I don't even have someone to talk to.
Cleveland was great. I absolutely love going to the PEZ Conventions every year.
The weekend before that was all the parties and birthdays. Much fun was had by all I dare say.
It really was a great time. I think we needed that. I know I did anyway.
Now though, I have to unpack from Cleveland and then repack to go to Vegas. I'm leaving Friday afternoon, skipping out of work early :-) I need a vacation. This'll be good; nice and laid back cause it's just Vegas and not like ten other places too. So I should be able to chill a bit. Thank goodness.
48 hours and I'm on vacation.
tick tock
Thursday, July 13, 2006
Nothing much
Time goes by.......
It's already the middle of July. How did that happen?
We've been in the apartment for over a month now. I can't believe it's been that long already.
Work is good. Lots of money which will help since I can't really do much once school starts up again.
My car is finally back. That makes me very happy. Two weeks in the shop and it's as good as new. Which is good because it is new.
Cabaret is starting up. Proposals are coming in. Good for the theatre, not so incredible for us on the reading committee. It's a lot of script reading, which can be fun but can also be very tedious. And as the tech rep on the rc I have a lot of work to do checking out the prop/set descriptions people put in their proposals. And the theatre itself is a mess. The rain has been reeking havoc on our poor little space. The basement is in continuous flood stage, the roof has begun to leak again... So much for all those little projects I had wanted to get out of the way. Now instead I have to worry about all the stuff that's being ruined in the basement. Such is the life of a college theatre td i suppose. Anybody wanna keep me company?
Good times ahead though - lots of birthdays this weekend and seeing Pirates with Carolyn. Next weekend is the Pez Convention. And then it's Vegas with Mom & Dad from July 28 - Aug 5. Nice. So if you can't find me for a while, that'll be why.
So all in all, life is good. I'm still bored most of the time, and no one is heeding my cries for rescuing from said boredom (thanks a lot guys). Then again, I get home from work super tired (which is weird, cause it's a desk job) so I probably wouldn't be much fun anyway. Still, it would be nice to know more than the usual three people cared about my sanity, like maybe by calling or im-ing or leaving notes <<guilt guilt>>........
Okay, enough.
Later.
It's already the middle of July. How did that happen?
We've been in the apartment for over a month now. I can't believe it's been that long already.
Work is good. Lots of money which will help since I can't really do much once school starts up again.
My car is finally back. That makes me very happy. Two weeks in the shop and it's as good as new. Which is good because it is new.
Cabaret is starting up. Proposals are coming in. Good for the theatre, not so incredible for us on the reading committee. It's a lot of script reading, which can be fun but can also be very tedious. And as the tech rep on the rc I have a lot of work to do checking out the prop/set descriptions people put in their proposals. And the theatre itself is a mess. The rain has been reeking havoc on our poor little space. The basement is in continuous flood stage, the roof has begun to leak again... So much for all those little projects I had wanted to get out of the way. Now instead I have to worry about all the stuff that's being ruined in the basement. Such is the life of a college theatre td i suppose. Anybody wanna keep me company?
Good times ahead though - lots of birthdays this weekend and seeing Pirates with Carolyn. Next weekend is the Pez Convention. And then it's Vegas with Mom & Dad from July 28 - Aug 5. Nice. So if you can't find me for a while, that'll be why.
So all in all, life is good. I'm still bored most of the time, and no one is heeding my cries for rescuing from said boredom (thanks a lot guys). Then again, I get home from work super tired (which is weird, cause it's a desk job) so I probably wouldn't be much fun anyway. Still, it would be nice to know more than the usual three people cared about my sanity, like maybe by calling or im-ing or leaving notes <<guilt guilt>>........
Okay, enough.
Later.
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Monday, June 26, 2006
Class is over
My two summer courses are over. Now it's off to Nomadic Expeditions full time.
The last week of classes was crazy. I had a HUGE paper due that Tuesday. and I finished it at 4 am. And when I went to print it, my computer had a little fit and I lost it. I went from the 21 page final version back down to the 5 pages I had written the week before. Everything gone. I freaked out. Of course. And then I sat back down and wrote the whole thing again. Finished at 9 am, showered and headed off to class. That was insane. Not good times.
But now they're over. And I finally have my placement for student teaching. I'm at Old Bridge High School. Grades 9/10. Should be interesting.
We've started accepting proposals for the new season at Cabaret. We've gotten a few notes of interest, which is good. I just hope we get a lot more. Four is not enough, even if they all turn out to be acceptable proposals. Maintenance is doing some work in the building and pulling up some great old stuff from back in the day. There are all these pieces no one knew we had anymore. I'm really excited, but then again I am the one who they'll go to so of course I'm excited. Just like Ash would be excited if we discovered a whole room of great costumes. We still have a couple of places to fill at the theater, like props/costumes, marketing, and Electrician. I'm working on it. We really need to fill them. I have a couple of ideas for people to ask, but if anyone comes a long and is interested, I'll be more than happy to take them on.
On to the rest of life.... We finally have cable/internet/phone at the apartment. There are wires everywhere right now. Hopefully we can clean it up a bit, get some out of the way. I'm gonna look into upgrading my laptop to wireless. we'll see if it works.
Another Birthday came & went. Crazy. Carolyn & Megan came over to celebrate with me. We went to the Skylark Diner, which is amazing! It's such a cool place, and the food is great. Then Megan and I went out for the evening. It was great to finally get a chance to go out in New Brunswick with Megan. Especially with her leaving for Texas. We had a great time, and I'm really glad we got the chance to have one more night out.
And this past Thursday was the Matawan graduation. I went and hung out with Beadle on the field. It was actually pretty fun. So many of my old matawan friends had brothers and sisters graduating...Randy, Debby, Bev...so many last names I recognized. So I got to see a lot of people one more time before summer, though I didn't really get to talk to too many of them. But seeing them was nice. I did get to talk to Randy, which was great cause I hadn't in a long time; Jackie too. Parag was there with a friend. I got to talk to Kevin after he walked. Crupi was there, waiting for the party afterwards. So it turned out to be good times.
Well, now it's late and I've got work in the morning :-P so I've got to get some sleep.
Later.
The last week of classes was crazy. I had a HUGE paper due that Tuesday. and I finished it at 4 am. And when I went to print it, my computer had a little fit and I lost it. I went from the 21 page final version back down to the 5 pages I had written the week before. Everything gone. I freaked out. Of course. And then I sat back down and wrote the whole thing again. Finished at 9 am, showered and headed off to class. That was insane. Not good times.
But now they're over. And I finally have my placement for student teaching. I'm at Old Bridge High School. Grades 9/10. Should be interesting.
We've started accepting proposals for the new season at Cabaret. We've gotten a few notes of interest, which is good. I just hope we get a lot more. Four is not enough, even if they all turn out to be acceptable proposals. Maintenance is doing some work in the building and pulling up some great old stuff from back in the day. There are all these pieces no one knew we had anymore. I'm really excited, but then again I am the one who they'll go to so of course I'm excited. Just like Ash would be excited if we discovered a whole room of great costumes. We still have a couple of places to fill at the theater, like props/costumes, marketing, and Electrician. I'm working on it. We really need to fill them. I have a couple of ideas for people to ask, but if anyone comes a long and is interested, I'll be more than happy to take them on.
On to the rest of life.... We finally have cable/internet/phone at the apartment. There are wires everywhere right now. Hopefully we can clean it up a bit, get some out of the way. I'm gonna look into upgrading my laptop to wireless. we'll see if it works.
Another Birthday came & went. Crazy. Carolyn & Megan came over to celebrate with me. We went to the Skylark Diner, which is amazing! It's such a cool place, and the food is great. Then Megan and I went out for the evening. It was great to finally get a chance to go out in New Brunswick with Megan. Especially with her leaving for Texas. We had a great time, and I'm really glad we got the chance to have one more night out.
And this past Thursday was the Matawan graduation. I went and hung out with Beadle on the field. It was actually pretty fun. So many of my old matawan friends had brothers and sisters graduating...Randy, Debby, Bev...so many last names I recognized. So I got to see a lot of people one more time before summer, though I didn't really get to talk to too many of them. But seeing them was nice. I did get to talk to Randy, which was great cause I hadn't in a long time; Jackie too. Parag was there with a friend. I got to talk to Kevin after he walked. Crupi was there, waiting for the party afterwards. So it turned out to be good times.
Well, now it's late and I've got work in the morning :-P so I've got to get some sleep.
Later.
Sunday, June 11, 2006
long time....
It's been a long time. There was so much I wanted to write about, most of it sappy end-of-college stuff, or fun senior week stuff. But the moment has passed. Oh well. I dare say we'll all survive.
Now it's summer. I'm in the middle of summer classes. Two weeks down, two to go. Then I go to work full time. I'm working at Nomadic Expeditions. It's an adventure travel company, specializing in East Asia, specifically Mongolia. Yup. Mongolia. I'm an intern, aka office bitch. I stuff envelopes, answer calls, reply to emails, make copies, all that lovely intern stuff. I'm actually having a lot of fun though. We'll see if it stays that way when I start going full time.
The new apartment is good. It's a nice place. Utility companies are killing me. It took forever to get the gas turned on, and Cablevision messed up so we have to wait another week for cable/internet/phones. Bah. So it has it's problems but I'm having fun with it. We're having the inaugural party there this Friday (6/16). Should be good times. Everyone's welcome. Feel free to stop by.
So, birthday this week. Crazy. Don't know where that came from. We're going out Wednesday to celebrate. Call me if you wanna join ;-)
back to the homework.
later
Now it's summer. I'm in the middle of summer classes. Two weeks down, two to go. Then I go to work full time. I'm working at Nomadic Expeditions. It's an adventure travel company, specializing in East Asia, specifically Mongolia. Yup. Mongolia. I'm an intern, aka office bitch. I stuff envelopes, answer calls, reply to emails, make copies, all that lovely intern stuff. I'm actually having a lot of fun though. We'll see if it stays that way when I start going full time.
The new apartment is good. It's a nice place. Utility companies are killing me. It took forever to get the gas turned on, and Cablevision messed up so we have to wait another week for cable/internet/phones. Bah. So it has it's problems but I'm having fun with it. We're having the inaugural party there this Friday (6/16). Should be good times. Everyone's welcome. Feel free to stop by.
So, birthday this week. Crazy. Don't know where that came from. We're going out Wednesday to celebrate. Call me if you wanna join ;-)
back to the homework.
later
Monday, May 01, 2006
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