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No, seriously, where is the cake?
I have candles!
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Created on 2011-04-27 03:57:47 (#882354), last updated 2014-06-25 (628 weeks ago)
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| Name: | namedphoenix |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | May 23 |
| Location: | California, United States |
My journal is friends-only, but not because I'm a drama queen. I'm a drama queen for way more reasons than that. I'm a teacher - a paranoid one, at that - and I don't want much to be on here that could be incriminating. Like that one time when I buried those bodies in the back yard? Yeah, wouldn't want that to get out. Or all those nekkid pictures of kittens.
I am a graduate of UCSC's Earth Science department, though a vastly disappointing one, I'm sure. I have a degree in Planetary Studies, with which I've done very little - but few people actually use their degrees, anyway. As a nerd, I'm a marginally good one, but a better way to describe me would be a geek. I do not, however, do well with trivia questions or just about anything that asks you to know something on the spot.
As a teacher, my philosophy is a conglomeration of so many things I become contradictory. I'm beginning my 6th year which makes me seem ancient in the art - at least I thought, when I started, that by year 6 I'd totally have everything figured out. I don't. I doubt I ever really will. Mostly, the way I look at teaching is like this: There are days when you wonder what the hell? and there are days when you wonder why you get paid so much because omg, you'd do it for free! it's so fun.
I continue my music education as a member of a community band (www.watsonville-band.org), and continue to grace the stage with mediocrity as a flute player. You don't have to be incredibly good to be in this band, but there are some incredible musicians in it. My boyfriend is one such musician. We met there in that band only two years after our first conversation. Apparently, I wasn't paying attention to him at all. In fact, I don't actually remember our first conversation.
Beyond that, I'm repentantly selfish pretty much all the time. And I often don't quite know the precise meanings of words I use. Such as repentant? Isn't that supposed to mean you feel bad and then you change? Because I feel bad - I just don't change. In keeping with the contradictoriness of myself, I also have a big heart and a lot of love to give to everyone I meet. That is, if I can remember meeting you.
I am a graduate of UCSC's Earth Science department, though a vastly disappointing one, I'm sure. I have a degree in Planetary Studies, with which I've done very little - but few people actually use their degrees, anyway. As a nerd, I'm a marginally good one, but a better way to describe me would be a geek. I do not, however, do well with trivia questions or just about anything that asks you to know something on the spot.
As a teacher, my philosophy is a conglomeration of so many things I become contradictory. I'm beginning my 6th year which makes me seem ancient in the art - at least I thought, when I started, that by year 6 I'd totally have everything figured out. I don't. I doubt I ever really will. Mostly, the way I look at teaching is like this: There are days when you wonder what the hell? and there are days when you wonder why you get paid so much because omg, you'd do it for free! it's so fun.
I continue my music education as a member of a community band (www.watsonville-band.org), and continue to grace the stage with mediocrity as a flute player. You don't have to be incredibly good to be in this band, but there are some incredible musicians in it. My boyfriend is one such musician. We met there in that band only two years after our first conversation. Apparently, I wasn't paying attention to him at all. In fact, I don't actually remember our first conversation.
Beyond that, I'm repentantly selfish pretty much all the time. And I often don't quite know the precise meanings of words I use. Such as repentant? Isn't that supposed to mean you feel bad and then you change? Because I feel bad - I just don't change. In keeping with the contradictoriness of myself, I also have a big heart and a lot of love to give to everyone I meet. That is, if I can remember meeting you.
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