i am clumsy with words

And then I woke up in San Diego!

My classes finished last night, I took two days off work, and drove six and a half hours through the desert to get here.

I love this place.

I’ve been at the JCC for six days now and I love it, I love working with kids, they are clever and funny and amazing and they make me laugh even when they frustrate me. They assigned me to be a floating teacher because I don’t have a degree in child education and I hadn’t had any preschool experience, so I would just go to different classrooms (sometimes four in one day) as needed and it was awesome (unless I was in the infant or 1/2 rooms … I prefer children who can talk haha).

Yesterday one of the teachers I had worked with for a few hours last week asked me to come to get room right before my shift ended, and she told me that her assistant teacher was quitting and she had specifically asked the center director to give me the position. They had offered her a choice between two different people who had both been floaters for years now, and she turned them both down and asked for me.

So essentially I have been there for six days and I have already gotten a promotion. I’m not even out of my probation period yet! It’s amazing. They told me when they hired me that might take a few years to get an assistant position … haha.

I’m thrilled, obviously. JoDee is my second favorite teacher there and her kids are awesome, and I’m so happy that I get this opportunity.

the prospect of getting a B in a class caused you to break down in tears.

I got an F on a paper because the formatting somehow got messed up when I emailed it, and after she graded it and I realized what happened, I immediately sent a PDF to the teacher, explaining what happened. She wrote me back and thanked me, but isn’t changing my grade. I had a 93% before and now I have an 89%.

I hate school.

The Avengers Space Horror AU

In 2079 the Loki, a SHIELD Corporation deep space research vessel, ceases communication with Earth. Its final transmission is a cry for help, followed by white noise. SHIELD Corp. employs a North Atlantic Marine Corps search and rescue unit to investigate the mystery, and look for possible survivors.

After fifty-six days, North Atlantic Marine Corps Vessel The Avenger, consisting of a crew of nine, docks in Neptune’s orbit.

Even though no traces of human activity are found, the crew decide to follow their mission parameters and board the Loki. Welcomed by the sight of blood-drenched corridors and sensor readings bordering on impossible, soon it becomes clear the crew might be in for more than any of them bargained for.

(via philtippett)

I will probably never have time to use social media ever again because my new job is awesome but during my lunch breaks I do school work and then I go home and make dinner and do school work and so I am very busy and very tired and no longer ever want to do anything ever again.

We’re still in the moving process. I was hoping to be done on Sunday but obviously that did not happen. Ugh.

haphazardhappenings:

Ah…ahhhhh…..AHHHHH!

Spent all day yesterday moving. Today I get to frantically finish my homework (two chapters, a paper, discussion posts, a test) and then … move more things.

I hate moving. I’m so sore.

On the plus side, I’m treating myself to a breakfast burrito, yum.

In every ECE class I take, we have to do one really big project that we have to pass in order to pass the class, and they go on a website called Taskstream and they all get reviewed when we graduate and we’re supposed to use it as a portfolio for job interviews or whatnot.

Anyway. I get a lot of anxiety about these because obviously if I don’t do well I won’t pass, but if you don’t get 100%, you’re not going to get an A in the class and I don’t like getting anything less than an A (in my art & music class I was the only one to get 100% and everyone hated me for it, hahahaha). So basically you submit it and then you wait and wait and wait and they send you an email saying your submission was graded BUT DON’T TELL YOU WHAT GRADE YOU GOT. So I have severe anxiety for about ten minutes until I can log on and go through all their menus BUT —

I got 100%!!