I should be reading...

There's no excuse for my lack of words over the last six weeks. Here's some of what I've been up to:
1. Student teaching (7th grade)
2. Being a grad student
3. Visiting Charlie in St. Louis (September 30)
4. Ellen and Noble's engagement celebration with families (see photo)
5. Family weekend at Bennington College (October 6)
6. Volunteering with Pajama Program (October 25)
7. Running (less than 5 times in the last 6 weeks...not enough to count as a distraction)
8. Joining Facebook (dangerous and goes along with the title of my entry)

Now it's time for me to really get back to my U.S. Constitution and Civic Decision Making class readings. For tomorrow I am reading some "race cases": Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857); Regents v. Bakke (1978); Brown v. Board of Education (1954).

What are you all doing for Halloween? Let me know if you have good costume suggestions. I'm thinking of being Meriwether Lewis or William Clark with my cooperating teacher (student teaching placement), as we've just started a Lewis and Clark unit. Although not sure I'm up for wearing that costume to a NYC party by myself. It's one of those costumes that doesn't make sense without its pair.

Barcelona, plus a note on re-entry

Hey loves,
Tommorrow is my 1 week aniversary in Barcelona. It is going well. I just returned from a 4 hour supposed english/catalan language exchange in which I asked four questions about Catalan and my fellow language exchanger spoke for 3.5 hours about the propper way to deal with "race relations in the United States", but anyway, I now have 4 frases in Catalan that I plan to use throughout the week...

Yesterday I went to the beach, and Friday I went to a Ben Harper concert with a friend who works for an online music magazine. We got to go to the concert with free press passes, but I had to be the photographer... so I had a foto pass, and I took fotos of ben harper from a pit in front with people who had bigger lenses than me. It was awesome.
In Barcelona I live in a dirty old flat, in a great location, with a slovakian, a brasilian, and 2 italians... we speak a beautiful mix of languages that makes Laura want to learn Italian.

I also write with further clarity about my future. I just found out through e-mail that the Watson Fellowship Conference is scheduled to take place at Scripps College, located in Claremont, California, from Thursday, August 2 to Sunday, August 5, 2007.
Maybe some people should blog about when they are getting married... I hope it´s not the same weekend.

a very bad essay

I am writing a very bad essay...there are many infinitives...it is like being constipated...something is in me and half way out and I don't like the smell of it...

Today I went to work at the Big Blue... it reminds me in some ways of the Blue Moon...I was told that I had a "warm personality" but that I needed to "improve my peripheral vision" and "be more aware of what is going on around me"...I have had tunnel vision for the past 26 yrs...my childhood occupational therapist never resolved my "position in space" problem...but perhaps the prospect of video retail greatness will bring me up to speed.

Today I decided that I was going to apply for as many jobs as possible from the "etc" section in Craig's list...like Barbara Ehrenreich on speed.