And I'm sure I'm the only one in the entire world.
I'll have five assignments to grade, and three lessons to prepare to get ready for next week. It's gonna be a doozy of a Friday-Sunday.
I feel like this job is making me work around the clock. It's ALWAYS on my dang mind. It really needs to stop soon. And it will. After tomorrow, I'll be 10 weeks down, six to go.
On to more juicy stuff:
Oh. That's right. Nothing juicy happens in my life. I'm planet Earth's most juiceless person. Someone, juice me!
...but I really don't have anything super awesome to share with you tonight. Oh, except this:
Two girls walked in from recess today. One white, one black. I only use their skin color to help differentiate for this story. Black girl was helping white girl walk. They were on their way to see the school nurse because white girl injured her ankle. Here's our dialogue:
Me: Uh-oh, what happened?
White girl: I fell off the swing.
Black girl: Yeah, another girl pushed her off the swing.
White girl: Yeah.
Black girl: Yeah, but she stuck the landing.
Me: {laughing on the inside}
Stuck the landing?! Yeah, don't think so. Sometimes my internship is okay.
I am getting dumber. I'm convinced. Case in point: I had to remind myself how to convert mixed numbers into improper fractions so that I could teach it to my fifth graders today. How pathetic is that? But just in case you too need a refresher course, this is how it's done:
Take 2 2/3 for example. Take your denominator of three and multiply it by the whole number of two. You get six. Add the numerator. That's eight. Eight is your new numerator. Place it over the denominator of three and your improper fraction is 8/3. Ta da!
Of course, the 10 year olds think that I'm an expert at this stuff, but seriously, I think they know more than I do.
I took the ACT like eight years ago. Did pretty well. Got a 25. Put that four-hour beast in front of me today? I'd score so low, guaranteed.
I have two explanations for all of this:
1) I don't have to regurgitate information like I used to when I was a good little school-girl.
2) My brain is so crammed right now with a bajillion little things I have to do for my internship, that there's no room for common sense/prior knowledge.
Remedy for my smarts reversal? A VACATION! And maybe a fifth grade curriculum study guide.
I have nothing really important to share, but maybe I have some half-important items. I'll let you be the judge.
1. Wet stuff has come down from the clouds above the last couple of days and it's supposed to last throughout the week. Fun weather oddity for my neck of the woods.
2. It's my nephew's fourth birthday today. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, T! This boy is hilarious, too smart (he's learning Spanish in preschool! He knows that "yellow" is "amarillo." How many four-year-olds do you know that speak Spanish colors?), he's completely independent, and he loves Batman at the moment. I love this boy.
3. My thighs are experience a dull ache, like growing pains. What the heck? Doesn't that happen during adolescence?
4. The janitor where I work got hammered this weekend. He said it was a lot of fun, but that the hangovers are really bad. (No joke, Gustavo*!)
5. I woke up at 5:45 this morning. Make this internship stop, please.
6. Am I boring you yet?
7. No? Good. Yes? Too bad.
8. Elder L. Tom Perry's coming to my stake conference in two Sundays!
9. This is number nine.
10. These growing pains hurt.
11. I love you for reading this!
I loved this show. Especially when the handsome Leonardo DiCaprio was on it for a season or so.
The last two days have been full of the Spirit as I have watched the 180th Semiannual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. If you don't know what that is, it's when the world gets to hear counsel from the leaders of the Church, including our modern-day prophet. It happens twice a year, and it's a major blessing to be able to be inspired and edified and unified in this magnificent way. To learn more about the history and logistics or whatever of general conference, visit here.
My favorite talk was by President Dieter F. Uchtdorf in the Saturday morning session. It was all about simplicity. My new favorite quote from that talk is, "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." I liked this talk because my life is super hectic right now thanks to this internship of mine. And I can see how I may make my life unnecessarily busy even when I'm not interning. So, my plan is to simplify as much as I can. Because heck, I want to be sophisticated. Sounds so posh.
Did you have a favorite talk? Did you go to a live session? One day I'll make it to one!
First of all, it's the birth month of some special people in my life.
Second, three years ago this month I got my second car. Still paying her off. Name suggestions?
Third, three years ago this month I came home from my three-month mission. That's a whole other story in and of itself.
And three years ago this month I got a new cell phone. That I still use. Religiously. Last summer it dropped 20 feet onto concrete, without a scratch. Now there's tape on the back holding the cover thing in place, because I dropped it like a month ago from where I was standing. I think it loves me. Do they even make flip phones anymore?
I went to Walmart this evening to pick up a couple of things. A lot of people hate the place. I don't, because...
...I get greeted by friendly, old people.
...I got photos printed in three minutes. THREE! Technology still amazes me.
...People-watching is at its finest. I think every third person I saw was tattooed and/or pierced all over their body.
...Self checkout is usually quick and fun (I get to play checker!).
...McDonalds, hair/nail solon, pharmacy, picture studio, fun area, eye center all inside the building.
...I was extended a cheerful goodbye by one of those old greeters.
I mean, what's not to love about Wally World?
Oh, because...
...There's nowhere to park.
...They don't stock their shelves.
...The checkout lines are a mile long.
...There's no one ever around to ask a question to.
