they will make your name sing, or the world smells of chocolate. or the sky is calling. or tomorrow will not be so bad. or (sigh, a ring by spring)

listening: bobby dupea//jack's mannequin//nada surf//blue october//margot & the nuclear so & sos
reading: teaching to transgress//bell hooks

note worthy:

• i got my ring (pop) by spring.
• i picked up 1 of 2 reference letters
  (working on resume' for the last one)
  
• i was wished "happy valentines day" by a class of 6th grade ESOL students (so sweet).
• I got to give my valentine a present. (:

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the hardest thing for me to do is to get up in early in the morning (any time before 11 is early these days). i have a hard time sleeping, i guess because i'm sick, so i wake up often during the night (even if i take meds.), so that shoots my sleep all the bits. i'm sad, because i really like to sleep; if you had asked me last week what i liked to do, i would have told you sleep. but now it's not the case, because sleep doesn't like me, so it's futile to like sleep.

this morning was the second morning in a row that i had to get up before 8 (torture, pure torture) to go to a school. Yesterday, it was for a school observation assingment, but today it was to pick up a reference from a teacher that i worked with a couple of semesters ago and LHS. being in his class taught me a great deal about ESOL and the struggles that teachers face with those students, but how rewarding it can be when your students succeed at the things you are teaching them. he has since left LHS and moved to SHMS where he teaches middle grades ESOL, i walked into his 6th grade class and he let me talk with the children and let them ask me questions: where do you go to school, what grades do you want to teach, what subject, do you want to teach ESOL (my favorite question) how long have you been in school, do you speak more than one language, do you want to learn languages (another favorite), have you been out of America (since the whole class came from other countries: mexico, peurto rico, columbia, brazil, spain, portugal, texas) , where's the first place you want to go when you leave america (italy). They were really sweet, and full of questions, the q&a went on forever! but that was good, b/c they were interested and talking (in english).



tonite: it's movie in the park ("cinderella man") and flight of the conchords.

tomorrow: farmers market and reading on blankets.