High Five for... Saturday?

1. Last Saturday I did the Dirty Myrtle Mud Run. (I'm third from the right, in case you can't tell!)  It was the first time I've run since I did a 5k in February, and even though it was about the same length, the twenty-seven obstacles meant you never had to run for very long, which is always a plus!
2. The Boathouse is a locals' staple in Myrtle Beach on Sundays: they're directly on the Intracoastal Waterway, so you can bring your boat right up to the stage and listen to their free concerts.  I'm not lucky enough to have a boat, but watching Parmalee from the grass was still fun.
3. I've had this bikini top since high school and wear it exactly twice a year - Memorial Day and July 4th (duh).  This is me and the bf at a Memorial Day cookout with friends (not pictured, but I promise they exist).
4. Two o'clock beer while house hunting.  Hey, it's stressful!  I think we finally found a place in Wilmington though, so that is worth celebrating!
5. My youngest sibling David turned nineteen this week - insane! (This is a pic from his high school graduation last year, but I love it, so outdated or not, I'm using it.)

Linking up with Lauren for High Five for Friday... even if I am a day late!

The Fastest Way to Make Sure You Never Blog...

Stop me if this seems too obvious (spoiler: it will.), but I've recently found that the fastest way to make sure I never blog is to not have Internet access.

I'll pause to let this profound statement sink in for ya.

I cancelled my Internet at the beginning of the year because, well, it was just a waste of money.  Between classes up on campus and my internship at the high school, I was never home anyway, and everywhere I went had Internet.  Plus, it's 2013 - I have a smartphone, which takes care of my Internet needs nearly all of the time.  But only nearly!  I'm sure it's entirely possible to post from my phone, but, truthfully, I've no interest in doing so.  Call me crazy, but I hate typing on virtual keyboards for anything longer than a sentence or two.  Plus, I can't upload any pictures from my computer via my phone (another life-changing revelation, I know).

So that, in short, is why I've not been posting.  Internship is over, and my summer (and final!) classes don't start for another three or four weeks, so I am high-speed-Internet-free for the time being.  From what it seems, many bloggers begin getting writers' block and aren't sure what to write about, but that's not my problem.  I have tons of ideas for posts (or, okay, at least several), but I lack a decent way to get my ideas out there.  Posts with just text (...like this one.) are bor-ing.  I see no reason to start paying for Internet at home now when I'm moving in a month or two, so for now, my resolution to get this blog a-goin' remains on hold.

But then again, after I move, I will hopefully have myself a j-o-b and will be working on teaching the kiddos, so who knows!  Sigh. Guess I will just wait and see how this plays out! :)

High Five for Friday!

 

1. I flew up to State College to watch my sister Tracy graduate from Penn State last weekend!  Unfortunately, this was the only salvageable family photo, all the rest are blurry. :(

2. Before I came back to Myrtle Beach, I went to DC (where I grew up) and got to spend some Cinco de Mayo time with my bff from high school, Jenni.  Fun fact: we have been friends for what, ten years now, and this is probably only the third photo of us to exist.

3. Bath time with these three babies, since someone felt the need to smash poop with his feet and bring it all through the house.  (Big guy, I'm looking at you!)

4. Tuesday kind of evolved into take-your-girlfriend-to-work-day, so this is how I spent most of my time.

5. Breakfast, I love you any time of day.

Linking up with Lauren for H54F!

Airport Friends

http://www.flymyrtlebeach.com

This evening, I'm off to Penn State to see my sister graduate, and I completely forgot that Myrtle Beach created an entirely new terminal!  I know this does not sound very exciting to most of you, but the old Myrtle airport was pathetic.  It felt more like a tiny, crappy mall than an airport, and you could walk from one end to the other in about, oh, two minutes.  NOW, however, it looks like a real airport, and it takes, like, six minutes to walk from end to end!

Contain your excitement.

Okay, so it's still no Dulles Airport (my favorite in the world, by the way), but it is such a huge upgrade from what we had before!  It does look a bit awkward being so empty since the season hasn't started yet, though...

Anyway, my flight this evening got delayed and then canceled, so I got pushed to a later flight.  I got to talking to the girl sitting next to me at the terminal, and it turns out she is a long-term middle school sub in Chattanooga, starting her first full-time teaching job in the fall.  We went to Nacho Hippo (a local restaurant that I was very psyched to see has a chain in the new terminal) and had a beer, then on our long twenty minute flight to Charlotte, we were seated in the back row of the plane together, and then we trekked the Charlotte airport to the end of terminal E for our next flights.

I absolutely LOVE to travel, even though I don't do it very much, and one of the best things about traveling is meeting people along the way.  It was great to meet Jessica, and it was also really nice to have her around to kill two or three hours with me.  BUT, at the same time, I kind of enjoyed that her departure gate in Charlotte was a solid eighteen down from mine.  I like that when we parted ways it was just an "Okay, have a great flight back! Nice to meet ya!"  No "What's your Facebook/Twitter/ name?" (Sidenote: I don't have either.)  I enjoy taking the airport friendship for what it is - a pleasant distraction for a bit, but it's fleeting. I kind of relish the time I get to sit alone at the airport.  Nothing beats people watching while drinking a $10 Jamba Juice. :)

PS - Even though I'm flying domestically, I'm using my passport as my ID, and it kind of disturbs me that I made it to another airport before I realized that it expired in January.  Shouldn't the TSA agents have caught that??

Lies I Told Myself at the Beginning of My Student-Teaching

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1. Stephanie, you and the other M.A.T. candidates will definitely meet every Wednesday to play trivia, have some beverages, and discuss the internship.

2. Stephanie, you will complete your 54-page Teacher Work Sample as you actually teach the unit, rather than in a mad dash after the fact.

3. Stephanie, your Teacher Work Sample will be a 100% reflection of things that actually happened in your classroom.

4. Stephanie, your planning periods should easily be sufficient to grade and plan ev.ery.thing.

5. Stephanie, you will still be able to get to bed at a normal time, and you'll never have to get up at the crack of dawn to finish stuff, either.

6. Stephanie, you're teaching honors classes, so these kids will totally be functioning at an honors level.

7. Stephanie, your new year's resolution was to be more social, and you can certainly keep that up during internship.

8. Stephanie, these kids will absolutely love your teaching style.  They won't mind at all adjusting to you instead of the teacher to whom they've grown accustomed for six months!

9. Stephanie, these kids will be really excited to use Edmodo - it's like Facebook for school!

10. Stephanie, you can totally start a blog the same week you start your internship.

 

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I just finished up my summative conference for my student teaching internship (did you know it's not called "student-teaching" anymore?  Apparently that is somehow insulting to us), and -

I PASSED!

Not that I ever thought I wouldn't, but it's still just such a relief to hear those words out loud! :)

Linking up with E, Myself, & I for Midweek Confessions!