i got in.
i feel like there must be some mistake...my application go mixed up with someone else's.
as of right now (until some admissions employee catches the computer mix up) i am accepted as a masters student at Columbia University. wow.
now i just need to find a way to have a baby, work and go to school. minor details.
12.27.2006
8.24.2006
Cal Poly Girls Reunion 2006
The reunion this year was at my new house. Crissy, Amy, Jill, Ari, and Lisa made it this year. We missed Brynley, Kristin and Trisha. We did lots of shopping and lots of eating (as usual). I really needed the time to reconnect with old friends. Here are some photos...
some of the girls in front of my house.
I wanted a photo of the brownstone i will own someday.
Lisa looking sexy at 8 months pregnant.
8.02.2006
settling in...
we are getting everything organized in our new house. the floors look good, but the walls leave a bit to be desired. i can't wait for them to be painted.
jen and kelly came for a visit. it was fun to see this on this coast. this is jen and kelly's favorite room. (if you come to visit you would see that the cupids on the wallpaper are blindfolded.)
we leave for the OBX on friday. i can't wait. then the college girls come for a visit the week after that. i am so excited to see all of them and spend time with old friends, reminiscing and making new memories.
hooray for summer!
jen and kelly came for a visit. it was fun to see this on this coast. this is jen and kelly's favorite room. (if you come to visit you would see that the cupids on the wallpaper are blindfolded.)
we leave for the OBX on friday. i can't wait. then the college girls come for a visit the week after that. i am so excited to see all of them and spend time with old friends, reminiscing and making new memories.
hooray for summer!
7.13.2006
our new house!
sam and i are finally official homeowners! we moved into our new home last weekend and we like it. we have lots of plans to make it the home of our dreams, but for now it is pretty darn good. we have a lot of lawn. we might get a ride mower. i hope y'all come visit soon! more photos to come...
6.13.2006
application confusion
I got this email today....
Hello,
Your application did not get reviewed for the summer/fall semester of 2006. We will shift your application so that it will get reviewed automatically for the spring semester of 2007. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you.
Best,
Peter Shon
Assistant Director of Admissions
Teachers College Columbia University
I am somewhat happy that it is not a 'no',but then I am wondering how can they just put off my application? How can it just not get reviewed? Were they tired of reading cheesy application essays and decided to just put the rest off until next year? Does this mean that they like me but don't have space right now ( I did apply during the 'space available only' application period)? I am so confused...
Hello,
Your application did not get reviewed for the summer/fall semester of 2006. We will shift your application so that it will get reviewed automatically for the spring semester of 2007. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you.
Best,
Peter Shon
Assistant Director of Admissions
Teachers College Columbia University
I am somewhat happy that it is not a 'no',but then I am wondering how can they just put off my application? How can it just not get reviewed? Were they tired of reading cheesy application essays and decided to just put the rest off until next year? Does this mean that they like me but don't have space right now ( I did apply during the 'space available only' application period)? I am so confused...
6.05.2006
4.23.2006
4.17.2006
application in!
I officially submitted my Columbia application. It feels great to have it done. I just have to wait now. There is such a slight chance that I will get in that I am trying not to have the 'if I get in' thoughts. There is always next year...
A few weeks ago I got to meet Lucy Calkins. She is an author and leader in the field of literacy. It was like meeting someone famous (not like us weekly famous, more education weekly famous), i was tongue tied and dopey, but i met her. Then like all obnoxious fans, i asked to take a picture with her. so here is the photo...
Lucy is the head of the literacy specialist department at Columbia. Someday I hope we're friends and I can bring out this photo and we can have a laugh. Or maybe that would be the end of our friendship.
A few weeks ago I got to meet Lucy Calkins. She is an author and leader in the field of literacy. It was like meeting someone famous (not like us weekly famous, more education weekly famous), i was tongue tied and dopey, but i met her. Then like all obnoxious fans, i asked to take a picture with her. so here is the photo...
Lucy is the head of the literacy specialist department at Columbia. Someday I hope we're friends and I can bring out this photo and we can have a laugh. Or maybe that would be the end of our friendship.
3.19.2006
800,000 for that?
Sam and I experienced our first official 'house hunting' day today. We met with our realtor "Doug". He seemed nice enough and he used to be a teacher, then a principal. Seemed like a plus to me (being a teacher myself).
We set out in his Land Rover to look at a couple properties in Greenwich. The first one was old and nasty and had little yapping dogs in little boxes in the majority of the rooms. I did not realize (until today) that (in Greenwich) old + nasty + asbestos + random third floor apartment = 850,000.
The second house, also in Greenwich was a cheepie at 799,000 but it did not include the backyard, no, if you would like the backyard it will be 1.3 million.
At this point we decided to give up on Greenwich.
We headed to the other side of the tracks...Stamford. It's a bigger city, but definitely younger average age and much more affordable. It has a happening downtown and more diversity.
SO we looked at a very nice house on a cute street, it was just redone. It was an older house so it still had charm (hardwood floors, molding), but it had been updated. We were hopeful...until we walked up stairs. The main master toilet was shit stained! Nasty! We ran past the other potential buyers there for the open house and headed to the next 'winner'.
Next house was built in 1986 with all the stylishness that the 80's had to offer.
I think I blocked out the next house due to the smell.
Last, we looked at a house that was large and I was hopeful. We happened to be about 5 minutes early and an older man answer the door, in his underwear, and let us know we were 5 minutes early and that we should have a walk around the outside for about 5 minutes while he gets ready. We should have run away at that point.
The inside was not that bad, old and poorly decorated, but not that bad. I found out at this house that for a room to be called a bedroom it does not actually have to fit an actual bed or a person (of normal size) standing upright. There was also a very arthritic barking/moaning dog that followed us around. The elderly couple that had lived there for god knows how long went from room to room with us detailing the history of what family members lived there and for how long and how they had arranged the furniture. They had just bought a luxury condo in a beautiful retirement community in Florida. We wish them (and their dog) well.
We set out in his Land Rover to look at a couple properties in Greenwich. The first one was old and nasty and had little yapping dogs in little boxes in the majority of the rooms. I did not realize (until today) that (in Greenwich) old + nasty + asbestos + random third floor apartment = 850,000.
The second house, also in Greenwich was a cheepie at 799,000 but it did not include the backyard, no, if you would like the backyard it will be 1.3 million.
At this point we decided to give up on Greenwich.
We headed to the other side of the tracks...Stamford. It's a bigger city, but definitely younger average age and much more affordable. It has a happening downtown and more diversity.
SO we looked at a very nice house on a cute street, it was just redone. It was an older house so it still had charm (hardwood floors, molding), but it had been updated. We were hopeful...until we walked up stairs. The main master toilet was shit stained! Nasty! We ran past the other potential buyers there for the open house and headed to the next 'winner'.
Next house was built in 1986 with all the stylishness that the 80's had to offer.
I think I blocked out the next house due to the smell.
Last, we looked at a house that was large and I was hopeful. We happened to be about 5 minutes early and an older man answer the door, in his underwear, and let us know we were 5 minutes early and that we should have a walk around the outside for about 5 minutes while he gets ready. We should have run away at that point.
The inside was not that bad, old and poorly decorated, but not that bad. I found out at this house that for a room to be called a bedroom it does not actually have to fit an actual bed or a person (of normal size) standing upright. There was also a very arthritic barking/moaning dog that followed us around. The elderly couple that had lived there for god knows how long went from room to room with us detailing the history of what family members lived there and for how long and how they had arranged the furniture. They had just bought a luxury condo in a beautiful retirement community in Florida. We wish them (and their dog) well.
3.05.2006
sew good...
it was my birthday last week and i am still raking in the gifts. i love birthdays!
sam just gave me my gift yesterday. he gave me a brand new state of the art sewing machine! i love it.
i have been using sam's mom's old machine that she had for about 30ish years. i have loved using it. it is so simple and i knew everything about it. i had that 'they don't make 'em like they used to' attitude, so why should i get a new one?
so when i saw this new machine i was nervous...but in just a few hours of playing with it, i had the thread loaded and was sewing. it was so simple and it even threaded the needle all on its own! they have made some amazing technological advances in sewing machines in the last 30 years.
i love my new machine. it is beautiful and simple and amazing.
my friends can expect a lot of sewn gifts in the coming months...especially if someone has a baby ( you know who!).
i've got to go sew now...
sam just gave me my gift yesterday. he gave me a brand new state of the art sewing machine! i love it.
i have been using sam's mom's old machine that she had for about 30ish years. i have loved using it. it is so simple and i knew everything about it. i had that 'they don't make 'em like they used to' attitude, so why should i get a new one?
so when i saw this new machine i was nervous...but in just a few hours of playing with it, i had the thread loaded and was sewing. it was so simple and it even threaded the needle all on its own! they have made some amazing technological advances in sewing machines in the last 30 years.
i love my new machine. it is beautiful and simple and amazing.
my friends can expect a lot of sewn gifts in the coming months...especially if someone has a baby ( you know who!).
i've got to go sew now...
2.17.2006
vacation
Yeah I am officially on vacation! I fly to California tomorrow...woohoo!
I have one week to see my S.F. friends, my old work friends, my college friends, my family and my high school friends. I wish I had two weeks. It all feels so rushed.
To all you Teach Me Tiger blog readers out there...see on the westside.
I have one week to see my S.F. friends, my old work friends, my college friends, my family and my high school friends. I wish I had two weeks. It all feels so rushed.
To all you Teach Me Tiger blog readers out there...see on the westside.
2.12.2006
snow way
I knew it was coming. It has been all over the news for days. "The Blizzard of '06" (said in a cheezy newscaster voice)
I shopped, along side my fellow nutmeggers, stocking up on all the essentials in case I happen to get stranded in my house for a few days. I scrambled to get a jug of water and fought for a bag of pretzels and then withstood long lines.
hunkered down in my house last night as the first snowflake fell, I was eager for the skis to open up and dump snow. But after a half hour of snowing it stopped...and i went to sleep.
i woke up at 6:17am to a huge crash. i was in that 'half dream half awake state'. as i woke up a bit more i decided that i did hear something. now i had two choices... should i get up and look around because it could be a tree that fell on my house or should i stay in bed because it could be a robber/rapist.
somehow i found the courage to get up (the thought of a tree having crashed through my roof motivated me) and look around.
just as i walked into the livingroom 'crash' it happened again. the house shook, the windows rattled. it was thunder and lightening. i was relieved that it was not a tree or a stranger. i jumped back in bed. the thunder kept me awake for awhile but soon i was fast asleep again.
when i woke up in the morning everything was blanketed in snow and it was still coming down. the blizzard was on!
the snow came down all day continuously. i enjoyed my water and pretzels, watched a movie, read my book and sewed a blanket. it was the best blizzard day i have ever had.
then i got the phone call that school is cancelled tomorrow! this day can't get any better.
(i just heard on the news that this winter storm has a name...Winter Storm Carson...wow, winter storms are the new hurricanes)
I shopped, along side my fellow nutmeggers, stocking up on all the essentials in case I happen to get stranded in my house for a few days. I scrambled to get a jug of water and fought for a bag of pretzels and then withstood long lines.
hunkered down in my house last night as the first snowflake fell, I was eager for the skis to open up and dump snow. But after a half hour of snowing it stopped...and i went to sleep.
i woke up at 6:17am to a huge crash. i was in that 'half dream half awake state'. as i woke up a bit more i decided that i did hear something. now i had two choices... should i get up and look around because it could be a tree that fell on my house or should i stay in bed because it could be a robber/rapist.
somehow i found the courage to get up (the thought of a tree having crashed through my roof motivated me) and look around.
just as i walked into the livingroom 'crash' it happened again. the house shook, the windows rattled. it was thunder and lightening. i was relieved that it was not a tree or a stranger. i jumped back in bed. the thunder kept me awake for awhile but soon i was fast asleep again.
when i woke up in the morning everything was blanketed in snow and it was still coming down. the blizzard was on!
the snow came down all day continuously. i enjoyed my water and pretzels, watched a movie, read my book and sewed a blanket. it was the best blizzard day i have ever had.
then i got the phone call that school is cancelled tomorrow! this day can't get any better.
(i just heard on the news that this winter storm has a name...Winter Storm Carson...wow, winter storms are the new hurricanes)
2.09.2006
gospel lunch
Once a month my school has something called 'classical cafe' (or as I saw a kid write in her journal today 'class school cafe) where we have singers/dancers/musicians from around the world come and play during an hour long lunch.
in honor of black history month we had a gospel group sing at lunch for the kids.
First I have to say that they were amazing! A woman recited Maya Angelou's poem 'Still I Rise' in a way that I will remember for the rest of my life. Also all the songs they sang were filled with emotion and history.
With that said...
It was extreamly religious! They asked the kids to do a lot of call and repeat. For example they would sing "God will save my soul" and then the kids would repeat it back.
At one point they asked the kids to repeat "Jesus washed my sins away" and a girl in my class who is Jewish looked at me and said "I am so not singing that".
Then they asked the kids what 'Amen' means. A boy raised his hand and said, "the end?"
The lady that recited the Maya Angelou poem said the poem was about Jesus. I have always thought it could represent anyone and everyone.
I am all for expanding horizons, but I feel like in a school where half the kids are Jewish, it was a bit inappropriate to have so many songs about Jesus.
Enough of my rant...
Survivor is starting and I can't wait to see the guy who quit smoking go crazy and freak out on everyone.
in honor of black history month we had a gospel group sing at lunch for the kids.
First I have to say that they were amazing! A woman recited Maya Angelou's poem 'Still I Rise' in a way that I will remember for the rest of my life. Also all the songs they sang were filled with emotion and history.
With that said...
It was extreamly religious! They asked the kids to do a lot of call and repeat. For example they would sing "God will save my soul" and then the kids would repeat it back.
At one point they asked the kids to repeat "Jesus washed my sins away" and a girl in my class who is Jewish looked at me and said "I am so not singing that".
Then they asked the kids what 'Amen' means. A boy raised his hand and said, "the end?"
The lady that recited the Maya Angelou poem said the poem was about Jesus. I have always thought it could represent anyone and everyone.
I am all for expanding horizons, but I feel like in a school where half the kids are Jewish, it was a bit inappropriate to have so many songs about Jesus.
Enough of my rant...
Survivor is starting and I can't wait to see the guy who quit smoking go crazy and freak out on everyone.
2.07.2006
I wish I was a Gilmore...
I have a small obsession with Gilmore Girls. (I am not sure if an 'obsession' can be small, but by small I mean healthy, not trekkie.)
A new episode is on tonight. I am giddy.
A new episode is on tonight. I am giddy.
2.04.2006
party in my mouth...
the dentist came to speak to my class last week. i have had nightmares ever since.
she told a story (with pictures) of what is going on in a mouth...
There are little bad bacteria people who are having a huge party eating the food that gets stuck in between teeth...then after they are all full and pass out... they poop, yeah they crap out all the food that they ingested all over the teeth and their poop eats away at the teeth.
if there is enough of the little bad bacteria guys poop laying around...your teeth start to get all mushy and sort of melt, which is a cavity.
i have always been an avid teeth brusher but i have increased my brushing from twice a day to at least 3-4 times a day...no little bad bacteria guy is going to poop on my teeth!
she told a story (with pictures) of what is going on in a mouth...
There are little bad bacteria people who are having a huge party eating the food that gets stuck in between teeth...then after they are all full and pass out... they poop, yeah they crap out all the food that they ingested all over the teeth and their poop eats away at the teeth.
if there is enough of the little bad bacteria guys poop laying around...your teeth start to get all mushy and sort of melt, which is a cavity.
i have always been an avid teeth brusher but i have increased my brushing from twice a day to at least 3-4 times a day...no little bad bacteria guy is going to poop on my teeth!
february...
When i moved to CT eveyone said, "get ready for the winter...how are you going to survive the snow/cold?...get a down puffy head to toe jacket."
As i sit here in the dead of winter, and it is 55 degrees and a humid rain is falling and my puffy head to toe jacket just takes up space in my closet, i wonder where is the weather i was warned about?
I should have a roaring fire in the fire place, a pile of blackets on me, a good book and some hot tea...
instead i am sitting here looking out the window at a warm rain coming down...wishing it was not raining so i could actually go outside and take advantage of the warmth or it was really cold so i could make snow angels in my head to toe puffy jacket.
I miss san francisco...where it's a reliable 50-60 degrees year round.
As i sit here in the dead of winter, and it is 55 degrees and a humid rain is falling and my puffy head to toe jacket just takes up space in my closet, i wonder where is the weather i was warned about?
I should have a roaring fire in the fire place, a pile of blackets on me, a good book and some hot tea...
instead i am sitting here looking out the window at a warm rain coming down...wishing it was not raining so i could actually go outside and take advantage of the warmth or it was really cold so i could make snow angels in my head to toe puffy jacket.
I miss san francisco...where it's a reliable 50-60 degrees year round.
2.01.2006
Masters?
Applications. As I sit down for the fourth night in a row to write my personal statement, something that is supposed to describe where I came from, what I have done and why I want a masters degree (in one page or less), I begin to think about who is going to be reading this. How much does this person get paid for reading my personal statement? Do they get paid per personal statement that they read or per hour? Is it better to pull a James Frey and take some literary license or just write the somewhat mundane truth?
I just hope the reader and judge of my personal statement, the person who holds my fate in her hands, had a good morning. (yeah I guess I picture a 'her')
I just hope the reader and judge of my personal statement, the person who holds my fate in her hands, had a good morning. (yeah I guess I picture a 'her')
1.31.2006
1.30.2006
My mother is...
As I was reading with a child, he had to finish this sentence "My mother is..."
He looked up and me, thought for a second and then with a serious face said "a high maintenance woman?"
He looked up and me, thought for a second and then with a serious face said "a high maintenance woman?"
1.29.2006
sunday
Sam and I went to NYC today to visit with an old San Francisco friend/coworker that was out here visiting.
We ate at Cafe Habana with Jason Schwartzman and then while shopping around in SOHO we ran into Anna Paquin. It was an exciting star filled day.
We looked at ottomans. How hard can it be to find an ottoman that is decent looking? I feel like they are all too 'something my mom would have' or they do not go with our couch. We found one that was nice but they did not have any on the floor so that means you have to order it without doing the sit and feel. So the search continues...
Back to third grade land tomorrow. Three weeks until I go to San Francisco...
We ate at Cafe Habana with Jason Schwartzman and then while shopping around in SOHO we ran into Anna Paquin. It was an exciting star filled day.
We looked at ottomans. How hard can it be to find an ottoman that is decent looking? I feel like they are all too 'something my mom would have' or they do not go with our couch. We found one that was nice but they did not have any on the floor so that means you have to order it without doing the sit and feel. So the search continues...
Back to third grade land tomorrow. Three weeks until I go to San Francisco...
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