its a small world after all

Jenny and I went to high school together

Jenny recommended that I go to her nutritionist, Dr. Lipton

Dr. Lipton has a practice with his wife

He also has a daughter

His daughter is a teacher (coincidence 1)

I teach about a 5 minutes walk from their office (coincidence 2)

Dr. Lipton asks me about teaching, I ask about his daughter

His daughter happens to be teaching for the first time in P-ville

I used to teach at Renaissance in P-ville

I taught at P-ville because of Master Comito, who also teaches there

Who happens to go to Dr. Lipton (coincidence 3)

But I only met Master Comito and taught at Renaissance because I dated Ethan

All because Ethan and I went to high school together, with Jenny




So the point here folks, is that my life is a continuous extension of things that happened at D-town. Whether sickly fascinating, strange, boring, or pathetic... it is true.

D-town rules my life.

I live here, I am in love with Jon, almost all of my close friends are from d-town.... I teach Biology in part because I liked dissecting cats in 12th grade and because I wanted to do a better job of teaching it than I got... I also teach because I went to Camp Donegal... because I was dating Jon.... because we met in high school!

Really, everything in my life is like the 5 degrees of Kevin Bacon... except not nearly as cool.



I just thought I would put that out there.

TIME THERE IS NEVER ANY TIME!

I am channeling Jesse today. Except I am not so excited.


School has started again and my schedule has already been ridiculous. Let me give you a summary:

Thursday ~ school
Friday ~ school, see apt, dinner with fam
Sat ~ work 2nd shift at hospital
Sun~ work 2nd shift at hospital
Monday (today) ~ school, class at wcu, dinner with bible study, complaining on my blog
Tuesday ~ school, class 6 to 9
Wednesday ~ school, class 4 to 5:15, drive to city to see Wicked with mom at 7:30
Thursday ~ school, and then thankfully nothing
Friday ~ arrange 32 Flavors with Josh, finally spend time with Jon
Sat ~ Hershey Park with Josh, Nick, Les, Ben, and Jon
Sun ~ wedding for Jen and Pete
Monday ~ work at the hospital 2nd shift
Tuesday ~ school, class....


It just does not end.




On top of that, my body is being mutinous again. For most normal females, 28 days is pretty regular. So given the endo (and the mutiny) my usual 33 or 34 days is acceptable, though unpleasant.

But 42 days?! COME ON BODY!!!!! I am in agony here. And I think I have it figured out. It is the freakin moon. My body just likes to be in sync with the full moon, I kid you not. And when I am left with little female pheromones screwing me up, my body naturally pulls towards it.

Still, given all that I have going on, I am not very pleased at all at the current events and I want to curl up into a ball and cry.

Plus I miss my boy. Pathetic, I know, but in times like these, I just want him to take my mind off of stuff. He did, however, come to work on Sunday and spend time with me, which was very much appreciated. It made the time go faster and he always makes me feel better. :)




Now, I could spend the next hour writing griping about our new portal system at school... and I have half a mind to do just that... but I am so incredibly tired. So I think im going to go to bed instead.

I know this has not been an incredibly interesting post, but hopefully it has at least conveyed how stressed I feel right this very moment.

montana pics up

Hi!

I finally got all of my Montana pictures up.

You can find them here.


Enjoy!

Things done in Montana

1. sleeping
2. sleeping while everyone around you is snoring
3. horseback riding
4. eating
5. seeing Beauty and the Beast
6. horseback riding
7. sailing
8. eating
9. shopping
10. hiking
11. taking pictures
12. whitewater rafting
13. consoling
14. flying
15. giving medical advice
16. laughing
17. crying
18. having fun!

There is your brief summary of how my trip went... it was really really great, I am still tired from it, and I definitely want to go back some day. Glacier National Park was amazing, and I got some great pictures from there. Anyway, maybe I will write more details... maybe not.

Back from big sky country

I loved it. It is stunningly beautiful in Montana.

Yes, I took all of these pictures myself.

Cambridge Who's Who?

Congrats to me, I have been "selected" to be listed in the Cambridge Who's Who for 2007-2008!

I will have my own biography published which highlights my career, education, and future goals. I will receive a certificate commemorating my achievement and publication. I will get the entire Who's Who on CD-rom, along with a username and password to access their website. From their website, I have the opportunity to network with 200,000 other professionals of the highest caliber. I will also receive two complimentary airline tickets to anywhere I want to go, and a $100 gift certificate to Cambridge Jewelers, a posh and upscale New York City jeweler. I also get access to the official font and letterhead so that I may use them to announce the prestigious honor which has been bestowed upon me.






All of this, for only "five eighty-nine" with a "one ninety-nine" payment upon receipt of the "welcome package"!



What a freakin racket!


I would have felt bad for the girl, if she was not so darned pushy. After "interviewing" me for my biography and explaining all of the wonderful things I would get as being part of this (which did not include 10 minutes of my life that I will never get back), she drops the price on me... but makes it sound like its 5.89 and 1.99...

So I politely (if not incredulously) say, "Do you mean five hundred and eight-nine dollars".

Well yes, of course, but obviously someone as qualified as myself can see the benefits of this exclusive society.

I tell her there is no way (implied: in hell) that I can afford to pay essentially $800 for this. She says thats "duly noted", she can give me a 3 year membership with all of the same benefits for only $499. Plus $199 later. HILARIOUS.

I say sorry, theres just no way.

Her response: "Is it a financial concern, or do you just not understand who we are?"

Who we ARE? Are you freakin KIDDING ME?! So sorry, I forgot that prestigious societies often ask 26 yr olds who work part time as a med tech and full time as a teacher to be part of their ranks.

I still balk, tell her there is no way.

The next price: $299, no additional fee, 2 years.

Nope.

And by this time she (as well as I) am getting very frustrated. To me, if you think I am special enough to have a ranking, I ought to be able to have it without paying you exorbitant amounts of money to do it. I really just want to get off the phone, but I was unfortunately sucked into the vortex of telemarketer spiel.

So her last offer was $199, for a year, plus the jewelry gift certificate, and it is "upgradable" any time I want. I will also get the username and password, but sorry, no cd-rom. She is also willing to send me a certificate to commemorate this momentous event in my life for a mere $69.99.

Thats it?! Really?! What a phenomenal deal!

I say sorry, and continue to try to apologize. She actually cuts me off and says if I wish to have a listing, I can go to the website and put my name up there for free, but sorry, no biography, no publishing, no certificate, and no access to networking. And then she pretty much hangs up.




AWESOME.

dreams

Yet another reason a cappella is awesome:

In my dream last night, Legolas came to the concert, and I got to meet him and give him a hug. Elves are hottttt.

Project Philly freakin rocks

Oh my goodness!

Thanks so much to everyone who came out to the concert tonight at Lower Merion! I hope that it was worth it - coming so far at 8 pm on a Thursday night to see a 2 hour show.

The show... honestly... I felt like it was amazing. It went so incredibly quickly for me. I opened the show with Thriller, messed up a line, dropped a line, recovered, hopefully the rest of the song was good... I think? Anyway, I am sure I will be rehashing that for at least several days... my own little personal hell. There are only two things that I do that I really have little confidence in... or at least overanalyze and want to make perfect all the time: singing and teaching. I get insanely nervous doing either in front of small groups, but put me in front of a big audience and I am usually pretty cool. I had a lot of trouble remembering the lyrics to Thriller... but I did it perfectly yesterday, and perfectly at sound check... and...

Okay, obsessively analyzing, stop it.

Anyway, the rest of our set was pretty darned good, which was complemented well by the "Real Men of Genius" skits that JH & AD wrote. They were hilarious. In that choir-dork kinda way... whatever. :)

Blue went on and were AWESOME - so musically tight, and I was just really proud of them. I feel like they were the more serious of the groups. We had a lot of heart and were dancing and stuff... and they were into it, no doubt, just more sedate I think.

Things went so quickly, and we were then on to our second set. I got to announce our second Real Men skit ~ Mr. Underappreciated Utility Bass. YAY loved it!

We closed our set with my arrangement of No Diggity / Wonderwall. I think it went fairly well, though I still question our closing on it. I think perhaps opening our second set with it would have been better, then closing with Snakes On A Plane. But whatev. I have officially cut the chord of my arrangement, and now its free-floating in a cappella land, and it just went how it went. I think that was the hardest thing I faced... the arranging was difficult but I loved it, the teaching came naturally... but the letting go part, where I say ya know what, I taught it the best I could, now its up to the group to take what I have done and make it good... wow, was that SO HARD. Lets just say I was not the only one in our group to have that issue! ;)

Our final song... uhhh the Australian one... I think its called After All? That turned out amazingly. All 32 of us sounded phenomenal when coming together, and it was just great. I was insanely proud of us.

And it was so fun.

Its 2 am right now. Afterwards the "adults" went to a bar and hung out while the "unicorns" (best if you do not ask) went to IHOP. Though I was sad to not eat pancakes (really, what else is better after singing hardcore?) we had lots of fun, and MD even won some anal beads (again, best if you do not ask).

I am just super stoked. I admit it - I love a cappella. I love singing it. I loved arranging it. I just loved it.

The thought has crossed my mind to see whether I could get something going at my school. We have a performing arts center, and I know the kids would be into it. I have just doubted my abilities... plus I am not convinced of their level of training... I mean, if they cant read music, I am not sure I can TEACH them that. But after this concert, the desire is coming on pretty strong. Its hard to go a full year without singing!

We shall see.

But thanks again for everyone who came out - it really does mean the world to me to be supported by my friends and to have them share in something that is such a big part of my life.