Summer Thus Far

Woah, I'm not quite sure what to do with this new blogger format. It feels like Wordpress in an uncomfortable way. =\ Meh, whatever.

SO! Sorry that I haven't posted anything in forever. It's been a hell of a few months. First, I finally graduated with my BA in art, and now I'm taking summer classes to kick off my graduate degree in education. Along with that, I have a summer job as summer school teacher. The kids, while stressful and, well, kids, are amazing and I love my job. We're doing our lessons in an "Around the World" theme, so last week was Kenya and this week is France. Next week, we're headed to Mexico! :D I'm seriously loving this. As I type, I'm reviewing a movie for them to watch on Friday (our "free day" in which they get to watch a movie, eat some French food, and play outside).

 Also, I'm doing the 300x30 challenge, which is where you do 300 crunches a day for 30 days. It's day three, and I've completed my first 100 (I do them in sets to keep from hating everything). So far, so good. I imagine the first week will be the hardest (usually is), and if I can make it past day three, I can do the whole thing. Today should be the day I am most sore, and boy do I believe it. Also promised one friend we'd do weightlifting at the rec this afternoon and another friend that I would go swing dancing with him tonight, so I'm probably going to just collapse into bed as soon as I get home. Today will be long, tiring, and incredibly fun, so here's to coffee, the cool breeze coming in my window, and the promise of sleeping in tomorrow because my boss doesn't need me to take over the class til 11. :D

 In regards to the 300x30, I will post before and after pictures, but bear in mind that I'm also weight lifting and occasionally dancing and always eating a healthy vegan diet during this, so who knows how much my results will vary from the norm. So yay! That's my summer thus far. Tristan will be here on and off (currently off, D:), but otherwise it's just me and the students and the spiders in my house (whom I've sadly grown accustomed to). Ciao!

My Day Was Better Than Yours

Okay, I know I complain a lot (mostly about sucky internet and centipedes), but let me recap real quick for you my day so you wonder at how awesome my life is sometimes.

I woke up at 8:30. This is "sleeping in" for me. I made breakfast, showered, read, had lunch, napped until I had to leave for my 1:30 class during which my professor's wife brought us brownies, went to my education class (which is about teaching art to elementary school kids) and because it's a Thursday, it's project day, so I spent half of that class making a papier-mache fantasy animal (mine's half walrus, half giraffe), and then I came home. I'm going to go grocery shopping, have dinner, and go to choir rehearsal for my a cappella group and then come home and go to bed because I don't have anything due in my two classes tomorrow.

Tomorrow, I'm going to go to my two favorite classes (one of which celebrates "Food Friday" every week with baked goods). When I get home, my roommates and I will celebrate "Cocktail Friday" (which is very similar to food friday, but with booze) with strawberry daquiris, and then I'm going to hang out with my boyfriend and probably watch movies at our friend's apartment. Saturday, we'll celebrate our one year anniversary.

I don't want to think about the work I'll have to do on Sunday, but I'm going to have a hell of a lot of fun getting there.

World, thank you for being awesome sometimes.