Cleaning Up

I finally got my car washed! I seriously felt so much better after my car was cleaned from the outside, that now I refuse to park in the lot across the street from GK. I think I rather park farther away and have a clean car, then a filthy one-one where I can't see though any of my windows, one where you can seriously scratch off the dirt...gross, I know.

I also came back from class today and took out the recycling and vacuumed! I love a clean room. I also like to keep things out of site...which is why the living room bothers me so much! Cases of pop are spilling out from under the futon. It drives me nuts! I don't even drink pop, so I can't do anything about-its not my stuff. A clean room is a happy room, and our middle room is definitely not a happy room, which is why I usually stay in my room.

I had a day full of presentations. In the morning I went to a speaker on Visual Literacy Development. She was funny, which was probably the best part of the presentation. Not that it wasn't informational, but things that I was already aware of. Then, for Science, we had Cindy Bobaum come in again, and we got a TON of free stuff! It was awesome. Something that the School of Education does very well is help us build our resource collection. Also, everyone that ever talks to us gives us their every contact info, and they're so welcoming about it that I really would contact them if I needed something. Lastly, we went to King Elementary to speak to a semi-new teacher on interactive writing, what its like interviewing and getting your first job-all that fun stuff. We also got to observe in a classroom. I think its crazy how the children don't even know me and the first things that come out of their mouth this, "I want you to be my teacher!" I hadn't even introduced myself yet! Love it!

There's a men's basketball game tonight that I think I'm going to...but very late, b/c Linda can't get there until late.

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School project: for my middle school methods course we had to do a cultural experience involving middle school aged students, where we observe them through any media. I decided to do mine via blogs. All I can say is INTERESTING! They are hilarious! So dramatic, they refuse to use real names and they say that they aren't using the real names, the girls talk about boys they like by referring to them as, "the BF", "HIM", or by another made-up name. They also all talked about their best friends being "pretty but is a B****"...yeah. I'd love to do research and study these kids a bit more. I'm kinda anxious to see what else they'd do. My paper is due tomorrow. I have about four sentences of five pages written, so I'm actually going to go do that now.

Until later, enjoy the one found picture from pre-Halloween:
I also think its weird how this area goes trick-o-treating on the 30th, instead of the 31st.