So many people at the movies on this lovely holiday. Seriously people, why are you not shoving barbequed meat into your faces?! You're so un-American!
The end.
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Happy July!
Been meaning to get back here for the past few weeks. Whoops. Too bad I can sum up those weeks in about three words. Work. Books. Food. And maybe popcorn.
Summer schedule is well underway, and two and a half weeks at the theater already feels like 2 months. But scooping popcorn and smiling at annoying people and cleaning up after them somehow earns me money, so I go back every day. Jokes, I have no choice in that matter. But I guess not everyone is annoying. And one annoying person usually makes me forget the 50 nice ones. Especially if that annoying person sneaks in cherries and leaves the pits and stems on the floor of the theater for me to clean up.
Anyway, my job is usually supes easy and some days I even get to read, which is the perkiest perk of all. I'm already on my ninth book of the summer. I'm a reading champ, I know. I already kind of reviewed Life of Pi, and the other books I've read so far include:
Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore
Fire by Kristin Cashore
Black Radishes by Susan Meyer
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
The Last Summer (of You and Me) by Ann Brasheres
I'd recommend all of Kristin Cashore's novels, because they're awesome. Just take my word for it. Fire and Graceling were both rereads, but Bitterblue just came out. Black Radishes is a middle reader by my Wellesley English adviser. I'm so connected! I wish. I once took a writing for children class with her, and at the time, her novel was not yet published. But we'd gotten to see the cover before it came out! The book was pretty good, although I couldn't figure out what age level it would really work for. Some middle school age. But if you're interested in Nazi-occupied Europe, this was interesting, and based on Prof. Meyer's own father's experience in France as a child. Then I read Life of Pi, and then Sarah's Key, another one about Nazi-occupied France during the war, but for adults. That one was very good, although the ending kind of dragged. But still, I read it in the matter of one day. Ann Brashere's "adult" novel was okay. I was interested, but the story was kind of annoying. I should have just reread The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. And Ship Breaker was meh. I mean, I finished it, but I wouldn't recommend anyone else to spend time on it.
Now I'm finishing up The Hobbit. So happy to have gotten into this book! I tried to read it once before and only got about a third in. Can't remember if I just had too much school work or just got bored, but in any case, I think I've gotten used to Tolkien's writing (which, at some times a little slow, is also pretty amusing), and I've been reading much faster than I was at the beginning. Can't wait to see the movie in December now! Embracing the nerdom, yo.
Also, Amanda's home from Guate. So really, nothing I say or do now could ever live up to her stories. You might as well give up and go reread her blog instead. I did get a pretty sweet colorful pen, with a tiny cloth person on the end, a supes awes postcard with a Spanish message, and some sa-weet sweets. Om nom nom. And we celebrated her birthday with chocolate cake. #dietsarefortheweak
And other things have happened. Like my grad bbq where I got to chill with fam and a few awesome friends, as well as fill cannolis with my Memere.
And of course I can't forget to mention that a couple weeks ago, I visited the lovely school where I student taught, and got to hang out with all my teacher friends and kids on their field day. It was a gorgeous day outside watching the kids play games and run around. I halfheartedly acted like a teacher, since I was only visiting. I was even given an honorary bright yellow Cluster 4 shirt to support my team, and was bombarded with sixth grade hugz and love. It was the best! I sat in the grass and chatted with my mentor teachers and my teacher's aide friends, and even a group of sixth grade girls. Love those convos about what they were reading, why I couldn't stay for the last two days of school, what they'd been up to, and the fact that my little desk in James's room was so lonely without me there. #collectiveawe. I will miss them all!
And I will spend my Forth of July in a movie theater and then at the neighbor's, eating a cold hot dog and swimming, unless it rains. We'll see. USA!
Summer schedule is well underway, and two and a half weeks at the theater already feels like 2 months. But scooping popcorn and smiling at annoying people and cleaning up after them somehow earns me money, so I go back every day. Jokes, I have no choice in that matter. But I guess not everyone is annoying. And one annoying person usually makes me forget the 50 nice ones. Especially if that annoying person sneaks in cherries and leaves the pits and stems on the floor of the theater for me to clean up.
Anyway, my job is usually supes easy and some days I even get to read, which is the perkiest perk of all. I'm already on my ninth book of the summer. I'm a reading champ, I know. I already kind of reviewed Life of Pi, and the other books I've read so far include:
Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore
Fire by Kristin Cashore
Black Radishes by Susan Meyer
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
The Last Summer (of You and Me) by Ann Brasheres
I'd recommend all of Kristin Cashore's novels, because they're awesome. Just take my word for it. Fire and Graceling were both rereads, but Bitterblue just came out. Black Radishes is a middle reader by my Wellesley English adviser. I'm so connected! I wish. I once took a writing for children class with her, and at the time, her novel was not yet published. But we'd gotten to see the cover before it came out! The book was pretty good, although I couldn't figure out what age level it would really work for. Some middle school age. But if you're interested in Nazi-occupied Europe, this was interesting, and based on Prof. Meyer's own father's experience in France as a child. Then I read Life of Pi, and then Sarah's Key, another one about Nazi-occupied France during the war, but for adults. That one was very good, although the ending kind of dragged. But still, I read it in the matter of one day. Ann Brashere's "adult" novel was okay. I was interested, but the story was kind of annoying. I should have just reread The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. And Ship Breaker was meh. I mean, I finished it, but I wouldn't recommend anyone else to spend time on it.
Now I'm finishing up The Hobbit. So happy to have gotten into this book! I tried to read it once before and only got about a third in. Can't remember if I just had too much school work or just got bored, but in any case, I think I've gotten used to Tolkien's writing (which, at some times a little slow, is also pretty amusing), and I've been reading much faster than I was at the beginning. Can't wait to see the movie in December now! Embracing the nerdom, yo.
Also, Amanda's home from Guate. So really, nothing I say or do now could ever live up to her stories. You might as well give up and go reread her blog instead. I did get a pretty sweet colorful pen, with a tiny cloth person on the end, a supes awes postcard with a Spanish message, and some sa-weet sweets. Om nom nom. And we celebrated her birthday with chocolate cake. #dietsarefortheweak
And other things have happened. Like my grad bbq where I got to chill with fam and a few awesome friends, as well as fill cannolis with my Memere.
And of course I can't forget to mention that a couple weeks ago, I visited the lovely school where I student taught, and got to hang out with all my teacher friends and kids on their field day. It was a gorgeous day outside watching the kids play games and run around. I halfheartedly acted like a teacher, since I was only visiting. I was even given an honorary bright yellow Cluster 4 shirt to support my team, and was bombarded with sixth grade hugz and love. It was the best! I sat in the grass and chatted with my mentor teachers and my teacher's aide friends, and even a group of sixth grade girls. Love those convos about what they were reading, why I couldn't stay for the last two days of school, what they'd been up to, and the fact that my little desk in James's room was so lonely without me there. #collectiveawe. I will miss them all!
And I will spend my Forth of July in a movie theater and then at the neighbor's, eating a cold hot dog and swimming, unless it rains. We'll see. USA!
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