Refusals

I did not do any work today when I got home from school. I left early too, to go pick up my hard drive with my recovered data. Hooray! for tekserve, the most wonderful people in the world for saving my ass and my data. I still need to submit my curriculum maps to my principal, as they were due a week ago. I was supposed to do laundry too, but the last thing I want to do when I get home from working is lug a bunch of laundry two blocks and wait around. I am running out of clothes, but hopefully I can pull through until Saturday.

Saturday's my birthday though, and who wants to do laundry on their birthday? I am seriously considering buying more underwear so I don't have to do laundry. Or maybe wearing my fancy uncomfortable underwear that only exists for non-existent romantic encounters. We'll see.

Today in honor of my birthday I made a cheap heat up dinner and ate it all. However, I neglected to remember the fact that I have been eating so differently than normal, with my modified schedule and my limited time to eat, that eating like I would usually do, i.e. gorging myself silly, makes me feel all yucky inside. The alphabet cookies didn't help. Stupid Trader Joe's with their delicious sick-inducing products.

Also, last night I had my first grad course at my university. It went a lot better than I thought, the teacher is an old Spanish fellow and she said that we'd be doing stuff that we can take and use right away. I think that'll be great because sometimes I feel like the stuff I come up with is really dull, but I also don't have the time or energy to come up with brilliant lesson plans.

Today was sort of mediocre. I kept one of my classes 15 minutes over on accident because all the classes after lunch on Wednesdays are shortened to accommodate advisory period. Advisory went ok, we were reading again and I told them they could do anything they wanted while I read as long as I didn't hear them. And they were pretty good about it. They don't want to do anything so at least this way, they can feel like they are doing what they want, I don't have to be annoyed by their ridiculous antics, and they have to listen to the stories which are actually all about being a teenager and are more or less what advisory is all about, emotional well-being of youth. I think it's a good compromise. I most of all don't want to be annoyed at the end of the day, and today I wasn't. Hurrah.

I guess that's all. As a said, today is all about relaxing. I got a lot of planning done already at school and on the subway, I just have a few things to do for Friday. I am going to do those tomorrow and get to bed by 9. I needed this rest. Also, I want to give a thumbs up to NBC for their new show Chuck. I really enjoyed watching the pilot. I never watched alias, so if it's just a rip-off of that, then that's stupid, but if it's different then I think it's awesome. Also, a thumbs down to CBS for getting rid of that show with John Ritter's son and the friend girl from Mean Girls. I really liked that show and I watched the show it got replaced by, The Big Bang Theory, and it's horrible trash. Not funny and it feels sort of like watching a play. I can't put my finger on what it is though that makes it like a play. More fall previews opinions to follow surely.