A Good Week

This week was a great week for student teaching.  I ran the warm ups every day, went on a field trip Wednesday, found a way to make the lesson work when the depended-upon technology didn't, and did everything except plan the lesson on Friday.  And, Friday was my first observation. 

Friday was a pretty good day, actually.  I attended my first department meeting of the semester, taught all day without any help from Mr. C, survived my first observation, and gave out a bunch of detentions.  Half of third period didn't return their report cards (they've had a while, now), so they have detention until they return them.  Hopefully that entices the kids to bring their report cards!?

At home, things went well, also.  We've been pretty busy (and my week's busy again this week, too--sheesh!), but we had a good night with my sister and her fiance on Saturday night, got some laundry done, and even cleaned up our space.

And that's us.  :)

Badges, We Don't Need No Stinking Badges

All semester, my UNT "bosses" (the people in charge of my program) have been telling me/everyone in the program to make sure and get ID badges from the district.  I made an appointment to have my picture taken and my badge printed out.  I went to said appointment.  I had said picture taken.  The woman who took my picture went to print it out onto my badge came back to me saying the machine was broken and that the people who could fix it were out to lunch.  She'd have them fix it and send it through the school's mail system and that it'd be to me by Friday.  I went to my school's secretary on Friday.  And Monday.  And Tuesday.  Finally, I got it on Wednesday.  Woo!

...I look like I'm balding in my picture.  And I can't even use it to get a teacher discount at New York & Co. because I have to be a "Teacher Teacher, not a Student Teacher."  Poo.

In other news, though, Jay and I have been hanging out at home some and running around a lot.  We saw Oh Brother, Werewolf Art Thou at the Pocket Sandwich Theater with my sister and her fiance--yup, she's engaged as of 1/23/11 (at about 1AM, which is when she called me)!!--a few weekends ago (maybe it was just one?  they all start running together...), and it was alright.  We enjoyed throwing popcorn at each other and strangers, and the dinner was super delicious.  Mmm.

For three trivia games in a row now, the team I've been on (not really contributing to, but sitting with) has won second place; the last two were complete surprises, as we'd been eighth or worse at half time.  So that's going well.  :)

My class at UNT started last Thursday.  Bleh.  I absolutely do not want to take a class, but I don't have much choice in the matter.  I feel like a terrible role model, though.  I'm supposed to encourage the eighth graders to go to college and do well in school and study and be prepared, but I am so reluctant to do any of those things myself.  Oh, the irony.

And now I've updated.  Happy times, y'all.

The Holidays are OVER

Some people like to lengthen the holidays and keep their decorations up for a pretty long time.  I might have liked to do that, but our apartment is way too cramped to keep up a huge tree for very long.  So, Christmas is officially over at the Shive house (except for the window drawings that Jay made with window crayons and still has to clean up)--the tree is down and put away, as are the stockings, stocking holders, nutcrackers and Christmas lights.  Our apartment feels much bigger now, much cleaner.  Thank goodness.

I only have this week left of my much appreciated break (I've paused a long time here to consider hyphenating "much appreciated," and I've come to the conclusion that I don't care--which has led to another, saddening  conclusion: I need school).  I'm playing computer games, watching my DVR, surfing netflix, and washing more clothes than I knew two people could wear.