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[09 Feb 2007|09:43pm] |
things have aligned in my favor this week.
absolutely no complaints here.
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[05 Feb 2007|09:09pm] |
Good news, I've cleared Fulbright checkpoint #1!
Got a letter saying my application passed through the screening committee so the application is getting sent on to Spain!
Rephrasing: I made the first cut : )
so today, everytime I get frustrated or start feeling stressed I think about that fact and it pretty much makes everything ok. : )
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[31 Jan 2007|01:00am] |
Dear Weather,
Please raise the temperature above 0 degrees. This is just getting obscene. Seriously.
Nicole
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[30 Jan 2007|12:53am] |
I think finally having a real monday helped. I feel like things are under control. And that my sleep schedule is under control.
And one thing that weirds me out is that I'm starting to feel naked when I leave in the morning not wearing make up. how silly.
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[25 Jan 2007|10:47pm] |
So this semester is not exactly what I expected.
What did I expect? I'm not really sure exactly. I've adjusted to the idea that this semester is going to be my hardest...ever.
It's just hard being on a different page than everyone else. But I have solace in the fact that my foreign language teaching classmates are going through the same thing.
Besides that I don't know how much I really want to discuss it here because I feel like explaining how busy I am would come out like whining or complaining. And I don't feel like I have any real right to complain.
So, I think I'm done for this evening.
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[24 Jan 2007|01:15am] |
so i just realized this when i talked to Kristin,
but the first time I saw/talked to 2 of my roommates today was to say goodnight...
que triste
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[22 Jan 2007|11:36pm] |
Things are pretty interesting. I guess it's time for an update. (dear vicki: hope this wastes a couple minutes of work for you!)
I knew I'd be really busy this semester, but I didn't realize that the first 6 weeks would be as ridiculous. I feel like I'm biding time until I return to the burbs to student teach. It should be the hardest semester ever, but if I make it through that means I should be able to survive as a teacher, eh? I really like district 214and how they run things, so things should be good.
I might not have time to activate for apo due to being busy than anticipated. we'll see how it goes.
I just booked a flight to Baltimore for spring break to visit Sarah. : ) I'll be there for half of break, then most likely u of i for the second half. I'm excited!
Mmk. I think that's about it for now. hasta.
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[16 Jan 2007|02:05am] |
So yeah. journal entries. i write those from time to time...
I'm intrigued about this semester.
Mini semester at school then the rest student teaching. Kind of weird to think about.
And that I have 2 classes and student teaching that are the only things between now and having a degree AND a teaching certificate.
weird.
Things should definitely be good. and interesting.
oh 2007.
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[07 Jan 2007|03:56pm] |
Monica: "You have cheerios spilled all over your backseat, it looks like you had a toddler in your car."
Me: "Drunk Paul, toddler, practically the same thing."
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[07 Jan 2007|01:27am] |
so.
2005 was a year of being all overthe place, in many aspects of my life.
2006 was about stabilization.
I'm undecided on what 2007 will bring.
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[26 Dec 2006|07:16am] |
Alrighty, I saw Megan did this, so I figured it'd be a good time for reflection. And a journal entry. Haven't done that in a while.
1. What did you do in 2006 that you'd never done before?
Road tripped with friends (FL and TN), purchased alcohol legally, lived by myself, worked with elementary school kids, went out on Sunday nights, went to Mifflin (and went to UW Madison for that matter…), worked quad day, not sure what else
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
some yes, others no. and of course ill make more.
(same exact answer as last year)
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Abby and Steve!
4. Did anyone close to you die?
No. amazing.
5. What countries did you visit?
None. Wow. Sad day.
6. What would you like to have in 2007 that you lacked in 2006?
Altruism.
7. What date from 2006 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? For some reason 8-23-06. It’s just the day first semester started.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
2 semesters of insanely good grades despite drinking myself stupid.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Hm my first teaching demo for 475. I felt so bad about it that I still haven’t looked at my peer evaluation sheets for it.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
…I don’t think so. Just bruises from drunken brawls.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Plane tix for Europe next May.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Hm, my summer theatre run crew. They were pretty awesome.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
no one's
14. Where did most of your money go?
U of I, rent, food, alcohol. Pretty much sums it up
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Applying for the Fulbright, Tennessee trip
16. What song will always remind you of 2006?
Hips don’t lie-shakira, the fray’s one song, chasing cars- snow patrol
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
happier or sadder? Somewhere between the status quo and happier
thinner or fatter? Thinner. I shed a lot of the Spain weight gain.
richer or poorer? Status quo I think.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Done more for others.
Pay attention to politics/current events
Read
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Doubting my teaching abilities
Doubting myself in general
20. How will you be spending or did you spend Christmas?
Dinner with my parents and grandma. Watched Little Miss Sunshine. Played poker with Alex and his family friends. Watched Love Actually.
21. Did you fall in love in 2006?
Quite possibly
23. What was your favorite TV program? New one?
Lost, Grey’s, Firefly,
24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
No.
25. What was the best book you read?
Through Painted Deserts.
26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Snow patrol
27. What did you want and get?
Stability
28. What did you want and not get?
I wanted to figure out what I really want in life. I am closer than before though, I’ll give myself that.
29. What was your favorite film(s) of this year?
Little Miss Sunshine for sure. Cars was cutesy. Pursuit of Happyness was good. The Departed was really good too.
30. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
21st= Unofficial. Sat at legends for a while, saw some old friends, had some pancakes, ran amok around 706.
31. What is one thing that would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
I don’t think I could ask for anything more.
32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2006? Comfortable
33. What kept you sane?
My paper journal, Alex
34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
McDreamy or Sawyer
35. What political issue stirred you the most?
Immigration stuff.
36. Who did you miss?
My señora, my Granada kids, friends who live out of state
37. Who was the best new person you met?
I didn’t really make any new friends, so I’ll go another route with this. Ann Abbott, Charles Larenas, Diana Lupa, and Claudia Fradkin. All are amazing teachers in their own ways and I can only aspire to be a bit like each of them. They all taught me so many valuable things.
38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2006:
You can’t please everyone.
If you do something you love and/or enjoy, it’ll never feel like work.
The first step to getting what you want is to decide what you want.
I rarely regret things I do, what I end up regretting later are things i DON'T do.
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[17 Dec 2006|12:11am] |
i just found the 500 czech crowns i misplaced about a year ago!
ridiculous.
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[21 Nov 2006|12:30am] |
Entry from like a week or so ago. I wrote it and wasn't really satisfied with it so I just privitized it to deal with later. i guess it's later?:
so upon review of the past semester's entries, I can sum it up like this:
fulbright, fulbright, fulbright, ahhh panic, fulbright, thinking about future=weird, apo, fulbright, busy, busy, done with fulbright, not sure what i want to do with my life, busy, busy, yay europe
...or something like that.
the whole online journal thing has been fairly unfulfilling. im pretty careful about choosing what to put out there for all to read. and in doing so, my journal then doesn't accurately reflect even a small portion of what is actually going on with my life or what's going on inside my head. its such a tiny cross section. its hard to pick and choose what to write about. so it seems that i just dont. or ill just go to the blurty page, type some stream of consciousness stuff, and call it a day.
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[16 Nov 2006|11:20pm] |
Megan, Kristin, Vanessa and I booked tickets to Europe!
5 weeks!
I'm super excited. Ireland and Italy. (the I's have it?)
then heavily thinking Amsterdam and Switzerland.
hopefuls: Munich and Paris
Kristin and I are hitting up Spain at the end!!
: )
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[07 Nov 2006|11:44pm] |
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How much would you sacrifice in order to follow your passion?
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[03 Nov 2006|04:34pm] |
where did the semester go? I feel like I blinked and it went from October 1st to now.
4 more weeks of class? wtf happened?
my aunt sent me an email yesterday. besides talking about how she bought 4 alpacas (thats right, alpacas) she asked about what my plans were for graduation.
weird.
entering the real world? really weird.
growing up. definitely a little odd.
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[24 Oct 2006|12:04pm] |
Fulbright materials are all in. Finally. Time to sit back and wait til February.
Barn dance and conference are both done.
Have half of the semester left, if not less than that.
It's go time.
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| Dear Fulbright, I thought I was done with you on Wednesday |
[20 Oct 2006|02:13pm] |
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i just got done typing about how my fulbright process is done an whatnot. I had some issues with some referencesand getting hard copies of letters and such, but I thought it was ok. My one referee submitted it online right at the deadline and I thought she was dropping off a copy at my advisors. Until I got this email:
Hi Nicole. Your application went in with an unsigned copy of your letter from ----- ------. So, we still need a signed letter from ----- -----. Please get in touch with her to make sure one is en route. At this point, she can mail it here, since it is already late -- what is most important is that we receive it, so we can send it to New York, so it will not hurt your application. The sooner it is in, the better the chances of reviewers being able to use it.
David
Oy. I know the application process is confusing. But when i send several emails about it, AND so does my advisor, AND so does the Fulbright website, AND I say that if there are ANY questions don't hesitate to contact me, I get to the point where I'm not sure what else I could do.
Sigh. I so thought I was done with my Fulbright application too.
/rant
I'm going to go try to get my good mood back.
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[11 Oct 2006|06:47pm] |
definitely whelmed and teetering over the edge of being overwhelmed.
October is going to be interesting.
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[06 Oct 2006|03:40am] |
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i'm glad i saw my spain foursome tonight. it was definitely needed. : )
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