TAKE THE DRINK

Tis the season!

Even though I am a little jealous that Chelsea got to hang out in her pajamas all weekend (I definitely need one of those weekends during the dead of winter), I am very happy with how my weekend went! 

Thursday night, Stephanie and Zephian joined me to see one of Tim’s improv groups and it was awesome. Especially seeing Zeph and Steph since it’s been so long! 

Friday night, Zephian, Nikki and I went to Matisse for dinner and drinks and then on to see another one of Tim’s improv groups (busy boy, just like Zeph) and that show was AMAZING! Everyone was hilarious and we were dying in the audience. Then we partied it up at Matilda’s for a bit and then went to an awkwardly music-less house party. It was really really fun and I got to meet a lot of cool people. 

Saturday morning, my boy took me to breakfast at Nookie’s, which is a really delicious place near me and then we walked around in the freezing cold for a bit. Then I met up with Nikki and we saw Old Dogs, which was HILARIOUS! I love movies like that, so quit hatin! Then we went down Michigan shopping…always interesting. And then I went to bed at about 10:30, haha.

Sunday, Tim and I went to Christkindlemarket. We drank hot spiced wine out of boot mugs and ate a bunch of food and chocolate covered fruit sticks! So good! Then we watched some football (I think it was football?) and headed to Zephian and Shane’s show at the playground. It was so awesome and different. A very exciting night for him!

Now I’m about to take a nap at work because I am beat. But I had a great weekend, a lot of improv, and grrrreat friends! And next weekend Kyle will be here! Yay! Mmmkayyy, goodnight!

Bitch, it's cold outside.

In efforts to not feel so dead tired, I wore a bright colored floral skirt today. It backfired because my eyes hurt from being open so long and this stupid skirt is just annoying me every time I look at it. I can’t wait to get home and change into all black. 

In other neutral news, I ate my last packet of Ramen noodles full balanced breakfast yesterday morning, so now I don’t have a mid-morning snack. Hmph. Me so hungeee. 

Severely harsh and indecently long.

I observed a 4th grade class yesterday. I was astonished at the lack of reading skills. These kids were reading picture books that I remember reading in preschool! I remember as a 4th grader I was reading 9th grade books as well as most of my peers. I hate to be so negative and I understand that some kids have learning disabilities and are at a disadvantage as with the non-native speakers. But I’m not talking about them. I’m talking about the children who have no learning disabilities and english is their only language and have all of the potential to go above and beyond their grade levels, but have fallen through the gigantic cracks of the public school system and don’t have the support from their parents.

This only solidifies my passion to become an early childhood educator. I hate to consider older kids a lost cause (they still have time), but they are definitely not my cause. I don’t have the heart or the patience to deal with products of absent parenting and sugar-filled diets. Today they were learning the difference in pronunciation between “though” and “thought”. Now, this made a lot of sense for the Hispanic kids in the classroom and I’m sure no one faulted them for switching the two. But it was an english as a first language student who mixed the words up later during guided reading. I could never deal with that. Teaching a child who probably knows how to make their own dinner and has possibly driven a car (I drove a car at age 8); yet they can’t even read the directions on the back of an Easy Mac box. It was nice being able to observe this illiterate classroom since there was no way they could possibly read my notes about them. Especially since they were in cursive. Did you know that they don’t teach cursive in school anymore?

I just can’t comprehend how American parents are apathetic towards their child’s FREE education. Supplementing this free education with merely 30 minutes of bedtime reading every night could do wonders! We take everything for granted. In Haiti, the schools are usually free, but because of their corrupt and greedy government, they charge outlandish prices for the mandatory uniforms (which are very detailed and even have specific socks for the children to purchase). Most families can only afford to have one child in school, if that, and they usually can’t continue past elementary school. Yet these parents break their backs to pay for as much third world schooling they can receive for their child.

It just pisses me off that people, especially Americans, are breeding without considering the consequences. Honestly (and this is probably the worst thing I’ve said yet—even worse than my rule of not hanging out with ugly people), if I could have one super power, I would choose the power to zap people with infertility. And that’s that.

Hey Fellow Tumblrs can we stop w/ the pictures of Zooey Deschanel

paulscheer:

I get it. She’s Hot. Cute. Whatever.

But do we really need to post dozens of pictures of her every week.

If Zooey Deschanel didn’t exist their be 90% less posts on my Tumblr Log (Is that what you call it?)

I think everyone who wants to post a Zooey Deschanel pict should post one of Regis Philbin instead, he’s cute and just as perky an doesn’t get nearly enough attention.

I love Paul Scheer.

I have a disgusting addiction to Ramen noodles. My body hates me.