July 2011
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You said you hate my suffering and you understood...
s4ne:
well where are you now?
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it’s over. just one more day. this time tomorrow i’ll be in my boyfriend’s bed (or out drinking myself stupid. but most likely in bed, possibly asleep because damn am i exhausted.). i have one day left with my children. 15 three year olds and 15 of the most inspiring, interesting, sweet, and CAPABLE people i’ve ever met. i am going to miss them (though i won’t...
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finish this
i cannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn’ttt
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i keep
running into distant friends in bagel shops and mistaking them
for adults.
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“I love you much (most beautiful darling)
More than anyone on the earth and I...”
– e.e. cummings (via ireadintothings)
“I hadn’t understood how days could be both long and short at the same time: long to live through, maybe, but so drawn out that they ended up flowing into one another. They lost their names.”
—Albert Camus, The Stranger
i’m doing lots of reblogging today but this is seriously my life right now and something i’m struggling with so much. i hate living my days waiting for the...
“One short, fairly stuffy, pedagogical question. Don’t you think there’s a time...”
– J.D Salinger The Catcher In The Rye (via swearthatiamuptonogood)
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“At the end, all that’s left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that’s why I’ve...”
– Nicole Krauss (The History of Love: A Novel)
Infinity & beyond
My pre-k theme this year is, obviously, going to be space.
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killing time waiting for my roommate to teach me...
Harry Potter Questionnaire
Harry Potter Questionnaire
Reblog with your own answers
Your house: Ravenclaw DUH! Your favoritecharacter from the trio: Harry Three other favorite characters: Hermione, Sirius, Hagrid Least favorite character: Voldemort, duh. Come on. Also Umbridge. Favorite book: Half Blood Prince or maybe Deathly Hallows, or maybe Goblet, depends on my mood. But used to be...
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p.s.
i am so done with philly. i know it’s a “gr8” city and all of that, but i can’t wait to go back to baltimore.
only 12 days left of institute… 10 days of school, probably 7 or 8 instructional days, and one weekend… 12 days left in philly, 10 days left of waking up at 5 and going to bed at 10, 12 days left of sharing a room, bathroom, and mini refrigerator… but only 10 days left with my kids.
i love the kids… but i am so ready for this to be over.
12 days feels like an eternity.
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i was just accidentally looking of some pics of src and it actually made me sick to my stomach how much i miss it.
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Let the camera do its dirty work down there in the dark
Sink low, rise high
Bring back some blurry pictures to remember all your darker moments by.
Permanent bruises on our knees, never forget what it felt like to live in rooms like these.
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"hypotheticals"
what do you do when you’re teaching summer school in the inner city and one of your students is a senior and the only thing standing between him and his full ride basketball scholarship to one of america’s best state schools is your chemistry class? oh, and that is complicated by the fact that he
LITERALLY
CANNOT
READ
???
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high highs, low lows.
I am trying the best I can. Sometimes the best is enough and sometimes it isn’t. I can’t say, right now, whether the best I am giving right now is enough for the 15 three year olds I am giving it to, but I really am trying. Every day has such high highs and low lows, but I never stop loving my kids and being amazed at how much their little bodies and brains can accomplish. I have...
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so one of the girls in my collaborative group quit teach for america today, and let me just say here, because i can’t really anywhere else:
FUCK HER
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you can find out a lot about who you are
when you’re sitting in front of 15 3-year-olds and they’re looking to you for direction.
i survived my first day of teaching pre-k (3) today.
one of my 3-year-olds asked me to draw a “crescent” on the board for her.
every single one of my children (even the one defiant one) sat criss-cross-applesauce with a quiet hand in the air for me (even if i did have to bribe...
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Yeah, the fights and the lies that we both love to tell fail to send our love to its reward down in hell. I got pudding for a backbone, but so do you.
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the inverse of the TFA institute experience
i’m always done my lesson plans so early that i have nothing to do and sit quietly in my room until bed time.
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