Picture-palooza

Hey look, it's the ceral I took to school with me for breakfast but was denied milk when I asked the lunch lady! No worries, I just asked a student to take and extra and bring it to me in the teachers room. Score. Dry cereal no more!

Here we have the bus stop bench drenched in the milk that we gave to the students during their after school tutoring. Clearly not a good idea. It was really frustrating to show up and then have to feel guilty because an old woman came to the bus stop with grocery bags and couldn't sit. I documented the case in order to let my principal know.

I went to see the play on the right tonight: The Play about the Naked Guy, which was HI-larious. Not just funny, but side-splitting funny. I'm not kidding. Get your tickets today, it'll be a hit (I hope) and even if it isn't, it was still stinkin' funny.

On our way out Dan and I noticed many funny things, including a cute little buisiness women MOWING down on a Big Mac and extra large fry on the subway. I couldn't help but be curious about how she east like that AND looks lik that. Not fair.

One thing we noticed was this apartment building on the left. It made me wonder "what kind of people live in an aparmtent like that?? Curious...very curious. I'd like to meet them.

A Giant Super Bowl

Crazier things could happen. But not many. The New York Giants won the Super Bowl tonight, which was a big surprise to, oh, I don't know...EVERYONE. Underdog much? Well, it turned the city inside out, or at least what I could hear of it from my fire escape after the game. At one point through all the hootin' and hollerin' I heard one guy exclaim "I LOVE NEW YORK!" Yes, sir, I'm certain that you do.

It just means that my kids will be off the hook tomorrow as well. I had a pretty happy day today though, and I feel MUCH more rested than last weekend, so that's a start. Yesterday was bagels, park and organizing, then babysitting. Today was brunching with Rachel and Claudia from my school, which was fabulous, and should become a tradition on Sundays. I then went grocery shopping with Dan, and then I bummed out on the party I was supposed to go to so I could get work done at home.

What that really meant was that I set out healthy-ish snacks and Dan and I laughed our heads off at the commercials. That is until the end of the game when we both yelled at the TV when the Giants scored the winning touchdown in the last minute. Out of control. Neither of us even LIKE professional football! I've never seen a Giants game in my LIFE.

Well, it was worth it, considering Plaxico Burress played at Michigan State in my day. That was fun. I think the most fun was just standing around on the fire escape listening to the post-game din though. Spirit is such and interesting concept. It's nearly oozing out of every bar and pub in the greater Manhattan area tonight. I can still hear it through my window. :)

Duck, Duck, Goose

I took a walk around the Resevoir in Central Park today, which tops up there on my 5 Favorite Things To Do in New York list. It's true. I always seem to be drawn to the birdies, probably because my mom is a regular Dr. Doolittle. She makes friends with the ducks on Gull Lake, where we live in Michigan. I'm not kidding, they come to her when she calls. She buys them sacks of corn and saves stale snacks for them and stuff. And she also collects stale snacks from friends and family members to give to the ducks too. In the summer, they love to waddle up the yard just to say hello sometimes. It's cute, and pretty entertaining to watch.

That all being said, I find a sort of kinship with my mom through the observations of ducks. Geese are another story...they poop on the beach.

It was a pretty good day for a walk, although slightly colder than I wanted it to be. It was still good to get out and around for a walk though. The park sort of has this calming effect on me, which I enjoy, and don't take part in enough. I can see why it's called New York's back yard, people really flock there (along with the ducks and geese).

I think I was already asleep when I typed the last sentence of yesterday's post. It doesn't make and GD sense. Oh, and one last pic from the place where I was babysitting tonight (mad cash for such easy work-the baby slept the whole time!) Goo'night ya'll.

Wait, dangit, I promised I'd post this one too. Now really...goodnight.

I love bridges in Central Park!!

Rufus and Ravagh and the Rain

Fridays always deserve a cheer. This Friday in particulare because I made it through the day at school with minimal patience lost and actaully feeling like I made a difference in the lives of a few children today. Ahhhh.

It was play time with my friend Allison (Brazil study abroad trip). We hung out at my place for awhile before heading out tonight. It was a rainy, rainy night tonight, but we decided we wanted to see "The Savages" with Phillup Seymore Hoffman (excellent) and Laura Linney! We also decided upon further thought that we should try a new place to eat- middle eastern to be exact, from Ravagh. I dined on the BEST saffron ice cream and goodness. Here's Allison beaming over her saffron ice cream! P.S. we also got tickets to see Rufus Wainwright play on Valentine's Day!! Awesome. The rain- it's awesomeness comes and goes.

Top up, bottom down

That's how you're supposed to teach vocabulary to kids, you know-top up, bottom down. Yep, I went to ANOTHER vocabulary conference tonight after work. This one was more of a happening, mainly cause I got to ride in a car. I love riding in cars, and it's few and far between when I ride in cars without meters in this town.

I might as well just continue with the vocabulary conferences and put it towards a PhD in vocabulary. I'm a vocabulary queen. It's true.

Oh and I didn't take a real picture today. This is me thinking about vocabulary.

...ohhhh vocabulary!!!

Yay for one whole month of a photo-a-day the Jane way! Hooray!

Not gonna write you a love song

There was gridlock on the FDR on my way home, so luckily I just walked on by. I noticed the building up ahead as the sun shone through. It created this funky bock pattern on the building in the middle, so considering it noteworthy, I took a photo.

I was exhausted by the time I got home, and all I wanted to do was lay down on my big red couch. Last year I suffered from plantar fasciitus in my left heel, eventually just rupturing the tenden all together (which was pleasant), and now I'm starting to feel a strain and pain in my right heel these days. It's curious, and worrisome to say the least. Don't worry too much mom, I'm stretching twice a day...

The activities that followed were these: lounge on big red couch for .2 seconds before Dan gets home. Eat cottage cheese. Watch Sarah Barielles on Ellen (which I loved!), did my Pilates DVD while Dan was at the gym, watched some I Love the 70's on VH1, made meatloaf with Dan (yum), laugh uncontrolably at more I Love the 70's on VH1, then carry on with the laughter during American Idol. Then I showered. Somewhere along the line I lost the will to care about being an interesting person. Now I shall sleep.

Ponderings...

I wonder...





I wonder why my middle school students were acting like this today:

I wonder why it became a gloomy rainy day today and even AFTER checking the weather this morning I wasn't prepared.

I wonder why EVERY time I go to the Rite Aid around the corner, someone blatantly cuts in front of me in line at the check out.

I wonder why the Three Times a Lady song by Lionel Richie always MUST be hummed, sung, or screeched along with by strangers when playing in a store.

I wonder if my students will ever remember the difference between they're, their, and there. (I'm working on a game right now to remedy the situation...I needed flashcards, hence the trip to Rite Aid)

I wonder why my stinking apartment is either an icicle or a sauna whenever I come home from work. Today it chose sauna.

I wonder why my hair is so fuzzy when I shower the night before.

I wonder if I will get pink eye after a 6th grader went home sick with it today.

I wonder why even after cleaning out my closet, I still fee like I have too many clothes.

I wonder why I chose peanuts for a snack.

I wonder if I should exercise at home, or if I should just suck it up and go to the gym.

I wonder why the Latino guy emptying the trash outside my apartment building is singing in Italian.

I wonder if this blog will be entertaining to anyone but me.