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socks with heels = awesome.  5/19/10

 

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Smooth criminal --picture caption on incriminating photo from nicole 5/9/10/917 

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 4/12/10 Honey that is not real life. Don't you dare not tell me your woes.  --text from dear mom

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!  HAVE A GREAT DAY-or as Grandma would say,A GREAT MONTH!!!!  --text from mom 5/20/10

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Guess who's going to peeeeeerrrooooommm.  -text from baby michelle 4/12/10

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 4/13/10 Did you hear the news? Baby michelle got asked to prom!--text from my mom

status update

i am excited.  seminary was excellent. its homecoming and so the kids are excited & happy, rally, food fair, good class discusisons, lots of talk on goals & progress and its only 10 am. some fresh air is on the agenda tonight and watching some students perform in a parade tomorrow morning.  -emailed/mental status update 9/25/09   

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fabrics!  4/10

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This should be a ben and jerry's add 1/23/10

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 12/13/09 @ 11:17 am yes already in the car. ps i have ur green make up bag too. or some green bag with a lot of jingly stuff in it. --my dearest george

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i didnt work on my cookbook today because i forgot my stuff.  so, instead ive been working a story ive been writing. so, go me.  --dear student from TN  (i found this quote in my email.  it is from last year 3/31/10.  it made me giggle, so i had to post it even though its late)

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that F&!$#N smart.  ms. booth, yous smart.  --dear student on an object lesson quiz about reading the directions

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I might as well have wrapped my arm in 20's. --dear sister kris in THIS post

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you are what you repeatedly do. excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. --aristotle

i found this gem on my google reader. being intrigued that shaq could offer such advice, i googled it a little. and then found the quote listed above.

c'mon, really? i could make a number of comments about what shaq has "repeatedly" been involved with lately, but i wont. its a little too easy. ill just post aristotle's quote, instead.

denise & maddy

today.

what a difference 30 minutes makes. 

 

i just found old, rotting, onions & garlic in a closed pantry.  that had invited lots of gnats to come and play.

 

and now, today, i don't like my job very much anymore. 

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dear student: where is da paper?
me: what paper?
dear student: da yellow paper?
me: what yellow paper?
dear student: da yellow paper we write all da jank on.
me: oh. by the door.

(i was not trying to be difficult. and what is funny is his explanation made perfect sense to me. )

teaching today.

today, i love teaching. 

 

we were doing an exercise on kitchen conversions & equivalents.  i was having the kids hold up the number of fingers related to different equivalents.  one student was a bit lost, and verbally answered "3.5" for how many cups 32 TB was equal to.  but then i looked over and he was trying to fashion his hand in a way that would represent 3 and a half.  it made me giggle. 

 

and

 

then we were correcting a chapter from the text on quick breads & yeast breads.  we talked about how freezing bread will prevent mold growth.  i told them if they just left a loaf of bread on the conuter it would get very, very moldy and it would be discusting.  one student mentioned that was the kind of bread they served in juvie.  (is that how you even spell it?  i don't know)  i told him if he didn't go back, he'd never HAVE to eat moldy bread again.  he agreed.  i was pleased. 

 

 

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if we're going to be hoarders, we're going to be hoarders with an excel spreadsheet. --my dearest george on the merits of cataloguing storage boxes, complete with box numbers, content listings and photos.  

kicked.

how am i only seeing this for the first time?

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i feel like i finally understand how to succeed at college: You have to do crap--dear sister kris

and

me: yah because big baby boys are so annoying.
Kristin: hahaha its true. there are a lot of them at BYU. they all have infinite potential. but few actually grow up. its like planting a field of men, and only 5% of it grows.

dear security

my dearest campus security officers,

 

i genuinely missed you last year.  and you still brighten my day with your "hey baby!" greetings every morning. 

 

HOWEVER.

 

i have NO idea how you've made it to middle age without knowing you should NEVER, ever, under any circumstance, ask, assume or make reference or gesture to a woman being pregnant.  the only exceptions to these rules are if she TELLS you she is expecting or she is giving birth in your midst.  when you act against these rules awkwardness ensues for everyone. 

 

just sayin.

 

love always,

speedy

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be unique without being ridiculous. --morning radio host in response to lady gaga's raw meat bikini photo shoot

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hey pettys!!  --dear flooring specialist at lowes (yes, they all know us around those parts)

 

and

 

don't do that me.  you do that to moths.  --my dearest george on why i shouldn't swat at him

and

ohhhhh. the late night crew...-- lowes customer service rep acknowledging the ridiculous hours we keep around their store

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 i love my family and i never want them to die. amen.  --dear child at the podium 

happy friday.

 

I FOUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNND IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

i can't really describe how absolutely thrilled i am at this moment. 

 

i have thought about a certain exhibit hundreds of times over the last 2 years.  i wrote pages about it in my travel journal, pouring out my thoughts & heart.  few times in my life have i ever felt so inspired. 

 

i then left my sweet, newly filled, leather backed travel journal on the bus at some point during our tour of the english countryside.  typical, i know.  we went back to the tour group, but they hadn't found it.  i left them my address and phone number.  told them i was visiting from the US, but to please please please please please send me my journal if they found it.  but they never did. 

 

every time i tried to remember who the artist was or what decade it came from, i drew an absolute blank, which made me even more upset about losing my journal with all of my thoughts about the WHY behind my love of photography. 

 

but today, i was reading something from reader and i was linked to this page http://www.chroniclebooks.com/index/main,book-info/store,books/products_id,8518/title,Life-on-the-Lower-East-Side/.  her name reminded of my dear, favorite exhibit.  i think they must have displayed some of her work during the exhibit.  because it was enough to get me to THIS site http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/streetandstudio/rooms/room6.shtm .  no, my journal still wasn't found or ever sent to me. but the source of inspiration for the words that made it so valuable to me, was. and if you still don't get why this is such a big deal to me, don't worry. you will soon. 

 

happy friday to me. 

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what kind of options are there?  --dear student 

 

(ahhhh.  moments like these make my little heart flutter, as a teacher.  we spent the next 20 minutes talking about college and careers and doing what you love and making money and exploring so you can find something you really enjoy.  it was so so lovely) 

and

me: now, i do NOT need a report on what happens when YOU go to the bathroom. go tell your DOCTOR, NOT ME, if you have any of the symptoms that we mentioned in class today that can indicate food bourne illness.
student: don't YOU want to be my doctor?
rest of the students: (uncomfortable silence)
me: no, i do not.
student: are you sure?
me: yes, very.
rest of the students: lots of "you're he**a dumb"s uttered in his direction

(this did NOT make my heart flutter. high school boys can be so....bleh.)

high school.

today, while correcting some chapter work and prepping for a sanitation quiz, the students were all writing down answers and asking questions. i noticed a stir, and turned around to see one of my students standing in the front of the class, folding his oversized jeans. that he had just taken off. he looked at me and waited, whilst wearing a tshirt and the oversized shorts he was wearing under his oversized jeans. and i asked him to sit down, and he agreed. no scene. once again, some things need to be publicly addressed, while others, when publicly addressed, exacerbate the problem. this was one of those. it reminded me of this.

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security #1:  SPEEDY!

security #2:  that MRS. speedy now.  now we just waitin on da belly swell.

 

back to school...

i was "flipping" through old posts and i found the ones where i was counting down to my last day at my dear school. i never finished or wrapped up the story. so, here 'tis: they canned me. you know, it was wrapped in, "oh we need to reduce sections, make cuts, etc etc etc..." but the fact of the matter is i had a super shady boss, whom i caught doing shady things, and i called him on it. and proved he was a liar. shortly thereafter is when they started referring to cut-backs, etc. that didn't change the fact that i felt like i had just gotten dumped. it was like re-living a parallel, all too familiar and recent heartbreak. so, without any choice, i packed up my car and left.

BUT now...

i'm back. i'm not unpacked or settled or really ready for ALL of the nutso crazy things this year has in store for me, but i'm back. and i'm so so happy. it just feels like home, here. which, makes absolutely no sense to anyone. including my students. and i'm ok with that.

and remember that super shady guy? yah, they caught him in even shadier stuff then before. so he got fired. (nanner, nanner, nanner)