Subject: Stuff :)
So I don't know why my last entry came out in a ginormous font. I definitely didn't pick it, and apparently now I can't change it. I didn't think my missions were THAT important.
Anyway, I've been sick. :( It was miserable for a few days, but today was prety decent. It was the first time all week I was able to focus fully on my classes. I was reading through my notes from the past few days, and I realize that I wrote a lot of incoherent things. Must have been the medicine. I was a space cadet for a few days, that's for sure. I even stopped doing pilates- eek!- must have been bad. I went to bed at 8:30 on Monday night. Now, granted, I'm not the night owl I used to be, but 8:30?! I was definitely sick. In the meantime, I feel like I haven't talked to Jeff in a really long time because the past 3 times we have talked, he has woken me up from a Nyquil-induced sleep!
Other than that... things are going well. Well, other than that and the fact that my mom found out today that she has arthritis in her lumbar (her torso and legs have been tingly and/or numb for almost 2 weeks now) and she has bone spurs on 3 or 4 of the discs in her back! She has to go for an MRI on Monday, and let me tell you: she is probably one of the most claustrophobic people I know. So, it will be an interesting feat to get her to lie still for about an hour in a small enclosed tube... especially when she is meeting my father in court in the afternoon. The doctor who succeeds deserves some sort of award.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESS!! (yesterday) YOU'RE FINALLY 20!
I am not particularly thrilled with the daycare center I chose to observe for HDFS221. It's really small, at least the young/old toddler and infant programs are. The preschool has 15 or 20 kids, which is a good number for me. But when I spend so much time in the UCONN child labs with the 18 toddlers... going from 18 to 3 (on a good day) is somewhat BORING. The description of the class says I am to be actively involved with the children... well, when the adults outnumber the children, it leaves me with nothing to do, so I literally busy myself by writing pages and pages of observation. I won't even be able to use half of them in my final writeup, but I do it to keep from falling asleep. (Or falling off my chair at some of the things they do that are not developmentally appropriate, treating the children like individuals, or ANYTHING else I have learned about teaching children). It's rough. **Note to self: Always work with a large number of children. It's more fun, and strangely, it keeps things more in order.**
My first exam is on Monday. I am completely unprepared because my professor is an idiot when it comes to notes. She only puts about half of the information she wants us to know on the slides. Then, when we ask her where the rest of the information goes (i.e. under what subheading, which theory, etc.) she gets frustrated and THEN when we ask why she didn't just put all of the info on the slide, she says "Because I didn't want to." Soooooo... Monday when she asks me why I didn't complete my exam, I'm planning on saying the same thing.
On that note, I'm going to read and then crash for the evening... another fun side note: I AM FINISHING JOURNAL NUMBER 30 (since Oct 1, 1995) TONIGHT!!!!!! Just for fun, 12 of them were 5-subject notebooks. I guess that just proves that I have a lot to say... but not much of it actually makes it to anyone's ears. I make sense of things in my own head (and on paper) and then I let them go. :)
Does anyone actually read this anymore besides Matt Girosky?!
