I think most of you know that I recently had to get my radiator & all associated parts replaced, which reallllly burned a hole in my pocket. Well, the hole is getting bigger: my car wouldn't start last night, so I took it to the Good Year. Apparently, I need a new alternator as well. And guess what? There are no alternators for my 2002 Dodge Intrepid on the island. Sweet!
So my car is at the Good Year for the next 5-7 business days...and I have a rental car from Enterprise. More money. Eeeeek.
On the plus side, while I was waiting for my car, I finally joined the Kaneohe library. :-)
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Saturday, January 19, 2008
CHEGG!
I just "rented" my textbooks for this semester from Chegg.com. It seems like an awesome website; they plant a tree for every book you rent. My trees will be planted in Guatemala. Fun!
So now, at the end of the semester when I have a ton of education books I will never open again cause I'm way too overwhelmed by all the OTHER materials I have for school, I can just send the books back, cause they're just rentals. And I saved a ton of $$ cause I didn't buy them, just rented them. Yay!
Also, my students LOVE all the new toys I brought back from the mainland. Thank you Pap & Grandma for the fun math & phonics toys and games!
So now, at the end of the semester when I have a ton of education books I will never open again cause I'm way too overwhelmed by all the OTHER materials I have for school, I can just send the books back, cause they're just rentals. And I saved a ton of $$ cause I didn't buy them, just rented them. Yay!
Also, my students LOVE all the new toys I brought back from the mainland. Thank you Pap & Grandma for the fun math & phonics toys and games!
Friday, January 11, 2008
Aloha
Aloha everyone! I made it back to Hawai'i last night around 6:30 PM.
Today was errand day, but all I really had to do was get my oil changed and deposit a check at FHB. The Jiffy Lube attendant said the wait time would be about 1 hr & 45 min, but I was prepared, and set myself up at Starbucks. I started working on a project I had been thinking about.
Two hours later, I picked my car up and decided to go back to the Starbucks before going to the bank. This was at 2:30 PM.
Seven hours later and twenty minutes later, one of the Starbucks baristas came up to me to let me know that the 'bux was closing in 10 minutes.
That's right. I spent 9.5 hours (minus the 10 minutes it took to walk back to the Sears, pay for the oil, and go back to Starbucks) at Starbucks today, and I never made it to the bank. But I did finish a feature-length screenplay! It came in at 81 pages, formatted in Final Draft, the screenwriting software. That's a little short (I've read that average feature-lengths are 90 - 120 pages) but I am excited that I actually finished one, and told a whole story. Then I registered it with the WGA and sent a copy to an independent producer. So who knows, maybe some day it will be on the screen! Although I'm working on a lot of projects, this is the first feature-length screenplay I wrote totally by myself.
Other exciting developments are underway for my other projects, but I'll talk about them later.
HOME was soo much fun!!! Thank you to my family for some amazing Christmas presents, for me AND my students (and my Steelers-fan-neighbors!!) When we start school again Monday, they will be very pumped!
Tomorrow we have a work day, then I have two meetings. Also, I'm super bummed because I wanted to go to a Barack Obama meeting on Saturday in Honolulu, where his sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, will be speaking, but I can't go. Unfortunately, I will be in Honolulu, but I'll be at the University of Hawai'i taking two PRAXIS tests about special education law. Ughhhh. I already passed the general PRAXIS last year, but these ones are content specific, and I have never learned most of the topics that are on it. So this should be interesting.
So far I have not seen a gecko, and I have taken 1 shower, been in three different rooms, three stores, and a mall. So this is exciting. However, I see the most geckos in the classroom, so I will let you know how that goes.
Also, I want to let everyone know that Ms. Lora Doleh and I received Honors in Psychology at Case Western Reserve University, but our names were inadvertently not asterisked in the program during Commencement. So I'm just putting that out there, for the world to know, that Elyse and Lora got honors for our senior psychology theses. Lora actually wrote TWO theses, one in Religion (which she also got honors for) and one in Psychology. My thesis was not as awesome, but it still got honors, even though you would not know that from the program. We aren't bitter at all. So I just wanted to put this public service announcement out there.
Wow. That was a really long post. Thanks for reading! Love y'all! (I no longer say 'you guys' as we're moving away from that in education). I wonder if y'inz is gender-neutral...not that I would ever say that, though.
P.S. How awesome was Obama's Iowa win? If you are on My Barack Obama, friend me!
Today was errand day, but all I really had to do was get my oil changed and deposit a check at FHB. The Jiffy Lube attendant said the wait time would be about 1 hr & 45 min, but I was prepared, and set myself up at Starbucks. I started working on a project I had been thinking about.
Two hours later, I picked my car up and decided to go back to the Starbucks before going to the bank. This was at 2:30 PM.
Seven hours later and twenty minutes later, one of the Starbucks baristas came up to me to let me know that the 'bux was closing in 10 minutes.
That's right. I spent 9.5 hours (minus the 10 minutes it took to walk back to the Sears, pay for the oil, and go back to Starbucks) at Starbucks today, and I never made it to the bank. But I did finish a feature-length screenplay! It came in at 81 pages, formatted in Final Draft, the screenwriting software. That's a little short (I've read that average feature-lengths are 90 - 120 pages) but I am excited that I actually finished one, and told a whole story. Then I registered it with the WGA and sent a copy to an independent producer. So who knows, maybe some day it will be on the screen! Although I'm working on a lot of projects, this is the first feature-length screenplay I wrote totally by myself.
Other exciting developments are underway for my other projects, but I'll talk about them later.
HOME was soo much fun!!! Thank you to my family for some amazing Christmas presents, for me AND my students (and my Steelers-fan-neighbors!!) When we start school again Monday, they will be very pumped!
Tomorrow we have a work day, then I have two meetings. Also, I'm super bummed because I wanted to go to a Barack Obama meeting on Saturday in Honolulu, where his sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, will be speaking, but I can't go. Unfortunately, I will be in Honolulu, but I'll be at the University of Hawai'i taking two PRAXIS tests about special education law. Ughhhh. I already passed the general PRAXIS last year, but these ones are content specific, and I have never learned most of the topics that are on it. So this should be interesting.
So far I have not seen a gecko, and I have taken 1 shower, been in three different rooms, three stores, and a mall. So this is exciting. However, I see the most geckos in the classroom, so I will let you know how that goes.
Also, I want to let everyone know that Ms. Lora Doleh and I received Honors in Psychology at Case Western Reserve University, but our names were inadvertently not asterisked in the program during Commencement. So I'm just putting that out there, for the world to know, that Elyse and Lora got honors for our senior psychology theses. Lora actually wrote TWO theses, one in Religion (which she also got honors for) and one in Psychology. My thesis was not as awesome, but it still got honors, even though you would not know that from the program. We aren't bitter at all. So I just wanted to put this public service announcement out there.
Wow. That was a really long post. Thanks for reading! Love y'all! (I no longer say 'you guys' as we're moving away from that in education). I wonder if y'inz is gender-neutral...not that I would ever say that, though.
P.S. How awesome was Obama's Iowa win? If you are on My Barack Obama, friend me!
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Test Post
This is just a test!
Also, I am home for the holidays for a few more days.
I went to Cleveland on Dec. 28 and it was AMAZING! Details to follow soon, hopefully?
Lunch with some Case people on Saturday, I also did this a few weeks ago with the gals - Val, Lauren, Cassie, Jenna, and Jenn (me and Jenn couldn't take 48 hours apart, haha). It's amazing to be home, I kind of don't want to go back.
Also, I am home for the holidays for a few more days.
I went to Cleveland on Dec. 28 and it was AMAZING! Details to follow soon, hopefully?
Lunch with some Case people on Saturday, I also did this a few weeks ago with the gals - Val, Lauren, Cassie, Jenna, and Jenn (me and Jenn couldn't take 48 hours apart, haha). It's amazing to be home, I kind of don't want to go back.
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