Life as it is now
Jan. 23rd, 2004 10:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amalthiaOkay I think life is settling down for the moment. Currently I'm working as a substitute teacher, I'm also supposed to be applying for law schools but I've been sort of lazy about searching for information lately. That and our internet keeps going down. I never know when I'll have access.
I'm not sure if I can even get into law school I took the LSAT but only made a 155 give or take five points. Basically I finished school and still don't know what I want to do and I'm not sure if I can find a job besides being a substitute. I didn't even have to interview to get this job. Sadly I think I really hate teaching so this is definately not my calling in life. I just don't have patience to help people with stuff I consider to be very simple.
for example on Thursday I had to substitute in a Resource class and these kids just could not remember how to spell easy words like Made, Snake, came, and etc...They kept wanting to leave out the A and so I'd have to sound it out over and over again until they figured out I was saying A. grrr that was frustrating. I felt like an awful person for wanting to shake some sense into the kids. Plus I couldn't tell if they really couldn't remember or were just giving me a hard time. :( Oh well, some of the kids were bright, they just needed special tools to help with reading. SOme of the kids just saw letters backwards so they'd come to Resource to do their work with some extra attention.
I've also learned how much I'd forgotten about Math. Now in Elementry school this is sad. I had to help kids learn how to subtract and I know how to do it in my head but to show a kid how to do it on paper...that's another story. Does anyone else remember borrowing??? Anyway, I was very glad to get out of there for the day.
Oh I did have one legit scare. I banged my knee on the desk just as I was sitting down to eat lunch and the pain made me pass out and fall on the floor. So when I finally got off the floor after maybe being out a minute or two my head was hurting along with my knee. :( by evening I felt much better but ouch I don't think I've hurt my knee this badly since I was a kid and rollerbladed without knee guards. Needless to say next time I'll be more careful.
Today I didn't go to work so I slept in a little, took my family dog Padin for her walk, watched a special on LoTR on Biography. (Love that channel) And basically lazed the day away. But I did finally have the time to call the interent company and find out why the hell our internet was not working. The tech guy got it working again. I just hope it lasts. Anyway, It's now almost 11pm and I'm sort of restless and not sure what I want to do. Normally I'll browse online looking for fan fiction, I was hoping to find a new influx of Return of the King fan fiction stories, maybe with Merry and Pippin, but I haven't found any that I liked. Though I did find a story told from Bilbo's POV that was rather well written.
I'm also sleeping in a travel trailor. It's not too bad, I finally ahve a quiet place to go, I set up my laptop and so far I've watched a few dvds on it, read some fan fiction and got some of my favorite games installed. But my original intent to write has not come to pass yet. I think I just need to settle in and get comfortable with this new writing space.
One last thing....I went online looking for Elija Wood's websites and I found one that has a forum of sorts and I sort of browsed through it curious to see what other fans of Mr. Wood would write about. It was sort of boring browsing because all anyone would say is how cute he is, or wonderful, or how much they LOVE him, but no I LOVE him EVEN MORE, and etc...They had this one thread about some article that said Elijah made a new years resolution to stop biting his fingernails. I mean okay it's not that bad of a resolution but come on he smokes. To me smoking is a more important bad habit to stop than nail biting. I've never heard of anyone getting cancer from chewing their fingernails. But anyway the girls on this forum (at least I hope they were girls and not grown women) had some of the most inane responses, like We love you Elijah good luck! Or some such nonsense.
Gosh I'm hoping popular movie stars don't browse these type of websites. I know I'd feel rather awkward having people who don't even know me declare their everlasting love to me. However, I guess it's better than RPS. I read a story or two of RPS to see just how bad it would be and the stories I found met my expectations. I just don't understand RPS or Boyband slash.
Well I think I wrote more than most people are willing to read...
So I'm off for tonight
I'm not sure if I can even get into law school I took the LSAT but only made a 155 give or take five points. Basically I finished school and still don't know what I want to do and I'm not sure if I can find a job besides being a substitute. I didn't even have to interview to get this job. Sadly I think I really hate teaching so this is definately not my calling in life. I just don't have patience to help people with stuff I consider to be very simple.
for example on Thursday I had to substitute in a Resource class and these kids just could not remember how to spell easy words like Made, Snake, came, and etc...They kept wanting to leave out the A and so I'd have to sound it out over and over again until they figured out I was saying A. grrr that was frustrating. I felt like an awful person for wanting to shake some sense into the kids. Plus I couldn't tell if they really couldn't remember or were just giving me a hard time. :( Oh well, some of the kids were bright, they just needed special tools to help with reading. SOme of the kids just saw letters backwards so they'd come to Resource to do their work with some extra attention.
I've also learned how much I'd forgotten about Math. Now in Elementry school this is sad. I had to help kids learn how to subtract and I know how to do it in my head but to show a kid how to do it on paper...that's another story. Does anyone else remember borrowing??? Anyway, I was very glad to get out of there for the day.
Oh I did have one legit scare. I banged my knee on the desk just as I was sitting down to eat lunch and the pain made me pass out and fall on the floor. So when I finally got off the floor after maybe being out a minute or two my head was hurting along with my knee. :( by evening I felt much better but ouch I don't think I've hurt my knee this badly since I was a kid and rollerbladed without knee guards. Needless to say next time I'll be more careful.
Today I didn't go to work so I slept in a little, took my family dog Padin for her walk, watched a special on LoTR on Biography. (Love that channel) And basically lazed the day away. But I did finally have the time to call the interent company and find out why the hell our internet was not working. The tech guy got it working again. I just hope it lasts. Anyway, It's now almost 11pm and I'm sort of restless and not sure what I want to do. Normally I'll browse online looking for fan fiction, I was hoping to find a new influx of Return of the King fan fiction stories, maybe with Merry and Pippin, but I haven't found any that I liked. Though I did find a story told from Bilbo's POV that was rather well written.
I'm also sleeping in a travel trailor. It's not too bad, I finally ahve a quiet place to go, I set up my laptop and so far I've watched a few dvds on it, read some fan fiction and got some of my favorite games installed. But my original intent to write has not come to pass yet. I think I just need to settle in and get comfortable with this new writing space.
One last thing....I went online looking for Elija Wood's websites and I found one that has a forum of sorts and I sort of browsed through it curious to see what other fans of Mr. Wood would write about. It was sort of boring browsing because all anyone would say is how cute he is, or wonderful, or how much they LOVE him, but no I LOVE him EVEN MORE, and etc...They had this one thread about some article that said Elijah made a new years resolution to stop biting his fingernails. I mean okay it's not that bad of a resolution but come on he smokes. To me smoking is a more important bad habit to stop than nail biting. I've never heard of anyone getting cancer from chewing their fingernails. But anyway the girls on this forum (at least I hope they were girls and not grown women) had some of the most inane responses, like We love you Elijah good luck! Or some such nonsense.
Gosh I'm hoping popular movie stars don't browse these type of websites. I know I'd feel rather awkward having people who don't even know me declare their everlasting love to me. However, I guess it's better than RPS. I read a story or two of RPS to see just how bad it would be and the stories I found met my expectations. I just don't understand RPS or Boyband slash.
Well I think I wrote more than most people are willing to read...
So I'm off for tonight
