Goodbye for Now

I'm taking a break so I don't feel like I'm forcing myself to write anymore. I'm going to finish wrapping up my old blog and just go with the flow for awhile. However, I have will still obsessively read everyone else's blogs and secretly wish I was that cool.

Force Post

Ahhhh this is hard! I have nothing to talk about.
This quarter is going to be hectic and another ball-buster for sure.

My mentor teacher is cool. Sitting in the teacher's lounge was quite the experience. Nothing exciting to report yet!

Pre-Teach Jitters

Tomorrow I begin my second teaching experience at Oak Hills High School. I am feeling pretty much as nervous as I was last quarter when I started teaching in the CAT program. I have a feeling this "first day of school jitters" will appear magically every single time. I feel like I'm going into this a little blind and am nervous at the size of the school (largest high school in Ohio). However, I survived the CAT program when I didn't think I would and here I am, ready to do it again. Deep breathes. :-)

Writing Experiment #1 - Acrostic Chance

Acrostic chance: Pick a book at random and use title as acrostic key phrase. For each letter of key phrase go to page number in book that corresponds (a=1, z=26) and copy as first line of poem from the first word that begins with that letter to end of line or sentence. Continue through all key letters, leaving stanza breaks to mark each new key word.

(My Variation: If letter is used more than once, page number is multiplied by times used. I also picked the first sentence of the first complete paragraph)

Book Used: Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chboksy

After the dentist's office, my mom drove me to the cemetary where a lot of her relatives are buried.
My dad said, "There are other people who have it a lot worse."
For me personally, as much as I don't understand my mom and dad
and as much as I feel sorry for both of them sometimes,
I can't help but love them very much.

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I gave up around the letter "s" because I just didn't like the way the poem was starting to flow. I thought it was ironic the first couple lines I found were all related in some way and made a very nice small poem which I shall call "Parents".

Un-laming Myself in the Name of 2009

I officially decided to be "un-lame" and write in this damn thing. Even if it kills me. Because deep down I love to write, but at the end of the day, I end up being exhausted/lazy and refuse to even type one sentence. But, for the past few months I've been cleaning out my Xanga and making a book out of it and wow. I LOVE reading my old stuff. It reminds me of stuff I haven't thought about in many years. And, I need to keep pushing on, especially because I have 6 months of college left and when I look back ten years from now, I want to see myself as I am currently. So, amongst the New Year's Resolutions I won't be keeping:
1. Be healthy (general enough to not make me feel guilty if I fail miserably like the past 5 years)
2. Write in my blog at least 3 times a week.
3. Start crossing off many books on my Daunting Book List
4. Start finding inner peace.
5. Just keep my fricking life together

We'll see what happens. I just got back from 3 weeks worth of 3 different trips...I went to Boston, MA to watch my best friend from high school get married at Harvard University. The trip was amazing. I went to Fremont, OH for Christmas 24 hours after I got back from the Boston trip. This was also amazing. 24 hours after arriving back to Cincinnati from Fremont, I left for Miami, FL to watch the Bearcats lose the BCS Orange Bowl game but came back with a slight tan and a huge-ass bag of oranges. Shere exhaustion hit and I was worthless yesterday but today? I am well-rested and ready to rock and roll. There is laundry to be done, soup for the week to be made, the gathering of my school supplies to commence, bags to be unpacked. So here goes. Hello, 2009.