It was cold when I woke up, and I spent too much time under my covers listening to the chatter on my clock radio from the morning DJ's. I like it when they say something funny, and even though I'm half awake, my first sound of the day is a laugh, or guffaw, or a chuckle, depending on how funny they are. I woke up to a HA today. I like days that start with a HA!
I was up a little later than usual, having to attend a vocabulary workshop at Columbia University today. It was with a reading/vocabulary god of our time, so it was quite the big deal. You know what else was a big deal? The enormous man that plopped down beside me, or rather overlapping me on the bus. Not comfortable. You try sitting at an angle for that long. I wasn't budging though- I was there first. Despite that large man, and the woman across the aisle spouting on and on about how another parent at her child's school made her VERY angry the other day because "you don't have no right to approach another person's child, and I was tellin' her that. I was ready to jump 'cross that table and whip her ass, no one have the right to approach another person's child and I look at her like this ohhhh I was sooooo mad." Did you get the feeling she was mad? Anyway, despite them, the rest of the morning was fine. The conference was great actually, and I got a lot of ideas for teaching that I think I'll use nearly immediately.
Another one of my colleagues was there, Ashley and so we got lunch together and had the chance to talk about school. I knew her last year, but this year I don't teach her students, so we hardly ever see each other. We get along splendidly though. After the conference we caught the train down to NYU for yet another meeting. This one being for beginning teachers to get together to talk about what's hard and what's easy. What's hard? Everything. What's easy? Get back to me on that will ya? We arrived a bit early, so we actually just passed the time by going to get a pitcher of beer at 3:30 in the afternoon. Holla' for happy hour at Down the Hatch! I should have gotten a picture there, but I'm sorta glad I didn't. You'll see why.
That meeting was actually really great as well, but more because of the people. and well, I have to say that I sort of miss being a student. I definitely don't miss the stress, but it was good to be back in a classroom as a learner and participant. Friends from NYU Fast Track program were there, as well as many co-workers that I appreciate from my middle school. Then walked in a few girls from my Brazil trip!! I was surrounded by friends!
My NYU group wandered back to the subway in Union Square together, and this is what I noticed on the way back:
Here we have a lonely snowman in Washington Square Park
And here's my new favorite thing on the planet: The Dessert Truck! There is just something so rewarding about dining from and blogging about food that comes from a truck on the New York City streets!
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