Look with your eyes, not with your hands.


Such a minute fraction of this life do we live: so much is sleep, tooth-brushing, waiting for mail, for metamorphosis, for those sudden moments of incandescence: unexpected, but once one knows them, one can live life in the light of their past and the hope of their future.



A grad student muses on her life, film, friends, politics, reality televizzle, and music.

 
Where to Begin...

While the parents are away, the minor disasters will play. So last night, while soaking up water with the super-power shop vac, I heard a loud crash but dismissed it as wind or monsters or what have you. This morning, I walked outside to find one of the front birch trees straddling my parents' cars - the windshield of my mother's van spidered and the branches left marks on the hood, wrecked a side mirror, and dented the hood. The tree then smashed the back windshield of my father's car, that's just open to the elements now. Luckily, my car was parked just far enough not to be damaged. I am in the process of reaching my parents now - hopefully they will call soon and this won't ruin their vaca. What can you do... the tree could have come through the house (ultimately worse). The ironic thing is that my Dad constantly talks about cutting that tree down. Too late. Tonight I've definitely earned my lumberjack merit badge as I broke off the stray branches and moved a giant tree off two cars - I am so ready for the strong woman competition. Now, like a good lumberjack, I am relaxing with a beer and some caesar salad (I am a classy lumber-ho after all).

Clouds are moving on the job front. I went into the middle school today to meet with the principal about the 6th-grade teaching job. The "interview" / conversation went really well, and I think I can handle this, although I expect it to be a challenge. The good thing is that I can glean my curricula from another 6th-grade English teacher and there seems to be a lot of team support. The downside of course is that I don't have a lot of experience with kids, haven't taught before, and don't know how I would function in a 6th-grade classroom. We'll see, I know that they want to fill this position quickly and this might work to my advantage. In related news, the RAW director asked me to send him my resume so that we could talk. This is definitely a good sign and we'll see what comes of this. With any luck, I'll be pulling down a paycheck soon. Glad that this little "break" could end soon.

Still haven't heard much on the grad school front, but a professor from Wisc called today to organize a visit for myself and some other candidates in early April. This sounds exciting and it would be nice to meet some other people in my position. This might be a little tricky because I won't necessarily hear from my other schools until April 1st... in any case, I definitely want to check out Wisconsin and as I see it, it's a race between Wisc and Chicago right now. Lots of changes to be expected in the next two months... which is good, I need more variety than montony right now.
posted by lmjasinski at 2:15 PM