I got a pretty iMac for my desk at school finally. And it has lots of fun exciting stuff on it and I'm happy.

I feel significantly less tired and worn out than I did at this time last week.

It's a fact, the La Nova on Main St. is not as good as the one on West Ferry (aka 5 minutes from my apartment...so dangerous...)

Teaching can be so great and so not great all in one day. Hell, it can be that way in one class period.

Peace out.

I ran my second Half Marathon this weekend! I did the Rochester Half Marathon (I did the Buffalo Half last May) and my friend Nicole ran the full marathon. It was a really good course and I actually really enjoyed myself, even though I was running by myself. It was very funny, I actually finished at the exact same moment as the FULL marathon finisher (this happened last time almost, also.) So as I was sprinting towards the end, the crowds were going crazy and yelling super loud and I was like "what, is this for me?!?!" and then I heard some announcer saying "And the winner of the 2007 Rochester Marathon!" and I was like "ohhhh..." The best part was that the winner of the marathon always runs through tape across the finish line, but since I was literally directly in front of him, I had to kinda crash into the side of the archway over the finish line just so I wouldn't break the tape! I suppose I could have been a jerk and gone through it, hahaha. I wonder how many times that has happened before.

Oh I ran it five minutes slower than I did the first one, but I'm okay with that. YAY! I can't wait to do the full marathon in May finally!

Some pics...


Me and Nicole, bright and early.


(e:Anne) came with me and slept on Nicole's couch. Nicole's dog decided to sleep on her butt once Nicole got up.


Me after the race was over. There's a picture of me running somewhere but it's not on my camera, so this is the only one I have.


We had some time to kill waiting for Nicole to finish the race. While we were walking around the streets someone dangled a carton of Tropicana from their apartment window and (e:Anne) decided to play with it.



The race finished at Frontier Field, which is like Rochester's version of Pilot Field. Inside was a horse statue made completely of baseball gloves.


Cory also came to see me run :)


Me and Nicole after she was finished. She was NOT feeling too good, but running a marathon by yourself must be terrible. Hopefully in May when I run with her she will be much better!

I'm sorry (e:mike) that facebook is stupid and doesn't seem to let me put up pictures from your b-day. So here they are. They are probably not going to be in order because I'm in between classes and don't really feel like taking the time to fix them. I'm sure you can figure it out for yourselves...enjoy!

...but sometimes it makes me really tired and really cranky.

for instance, today.

So my classroom at school is kind of like the Room of Requirement at Hogwarts in the Harry Potter series. Mostly it's my music room, but it is also used throughout the day as social studies, math and art on my off periods. So I thought I would use this to my advantage and use the art supplies with my 6th grade music class tomorrow so they can make nametags. Well I was digging through the art supplies cabinets and this is what I found:




Does this seem strange/amusing to anyone else? Woohoo, we put some brown and peach and tan markers in a box and labelled it "Multicultural"!

There is lad, his name is Mike
He has a green and black helmet to wear while riding a bike
Today he is twenty-four
Maybe he will eat some Or(eos)
Tonight we will go to Frizzy's
And we will definitely get very dizzy
Turning twenty-four is a big step
When I turned 24 Mike tied a balloon to my doorstep
Mike hates me for that last rhyme
And he will tell me to go die for the millionth time
That's just how our friendship goes
Mike Ja Rule and a buncha hoes
I should have written this in his card
I could write another one but it might be too hard
So now I will go wrap his gift
In order to make letters capital you have to press shift
Happy birthday Mike you silly swine
Tonight we will party like it's 1999





HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

i'm picking up internet sitting in my car. i don't think this has ever happened before, woo hoo! this is the first time i've ever seen only one bar on the internet connection thingie too, but hey, apparently one works!



that's all i have to say about that.

END OF THE SUMMER SURVEY!
Random Questions About Your Summer:

1. How did your summer start off?
great

2. How many times have you gone to the beach?
like every day, sheesh mike, we're ridiculous

3. Did you go to camp?
no :(

4. Did something or someone make you cry?
nope, well HP book 7

5. Was there any drama of any sort?
just in my head, i'm silly

7. Did you lose people that meant a lot to you?
no

8. Did you drink?
yes

9. Did you do something you weren't supposed to do?
nope

10. Was this summer better than last summer?
yes

Now We're Getting To The Juicy Stuff:

1. How many people have you kissed?
1

2. Did you hook up with someone and never talked to them again?
no

3. Did you make drunk phone calls?
just texts

4. Did you ever sneak out to see a someone?
no

5. Did you kiss someone of the same sex?
no

6. Did you do anything with someone that had a boyfriend/girlfriend?
no

7. Did you have to get over someone?
nope

8. Did you believe something someone told you even though you knew it couldn't be true?
um no

9. Did you have sex?
maybe

10. Did you meet someone that put you in amazement?
sure

Final Questions:
1. Do you wish the summer didn't end?
yes, haha, i love summer so much

2. Did anything memorable happen? If so, what?
yes i went to freakin milan and madrid AHHH they were so great, and i got my first apartment well non college apartment, and we got a kitty, and i started dating hike man, and i read the last harry potter book and i joined a new singing group, whew what a summer

3. What was the worst point of the summer?
um there really was not bad stuff at all. i guess it was pretty annoying when my car wouldn't start. and when we were sitting by a crazy man in the airport in madrid. other than that everything has been pretty okay.

4. Did you go out a lot?
hmm, not a ton.

5. Are there some things you wish you could take back?
nah

6. What's the saddest thing that has happened this summer?
uhhhh i don't know

7. If you didn't fall in love with someone, do you wish you did?
no i'm okay with where i am right now

8. Who during the summer made you appreciate life?
madrid

9. Were you one of those people that told people you should hang out this summer but never did?
hmmm i don't think so

10. Summarize the summer in one word:
great

it is midnight on a frrrrriday night and here i am in full fredonia gear, pj pants and hoodie, getting ready for bed. yeah that's right. my lip gloss is poppin. i don't even know what that is from but it seemed like the time to get it in this entry.

i saw othello tonight. it was an entertaining show but quite long. my favorite part was my dad doing the intermission give-us-your-money speech, especially when he was just rambling because he figured no one was listening, but i was! sometimes i think my dad is the funniest person in the world. i was seriously laughing hysterically at some things he was saying while most other people were shivering to death or avoiding the actors with the collection baggies.

summer is a-slippin by. i've really enjoyed my summer. new apartment, new kitty, new person whom i like a lot, going to the beach every day of course, and did i mention the new kitty. if you haven't seen him already, go over to (e:anne) 's journal for a peek (or continue reading). i seriously love this cat and i am NOT a cat person. but i am in love with him. I LOVE YOU OSCAR PRESTON!!!!!

living on richmond is soooo loud. i realize it even more because i tend to spend a couple nights a week in amherst in a residential, quiet neighborhood. then i come home and i hear at least 3 fire engines and/or amublances an hour, car alarms, construction workers, random crazies outside, and of course the traffic. i'm not really complaining but i had no idea how loud it was! but i still love where we live and i'm super pumped we got our pad.

by the way i love DVR. i have DVR-ed saved by the bell on TBS for about two weeks now and it is heaven. what better way to wake up than to zack, slater, screech, kelly, jessie, lisa and mr. belding? (we won't mention the other one...) ps it's funny how many celebrities were on saved by the bell before they made it, well at least some b-list...scott wolf, christine taylor, bridget sampras or whatever her name is, ok she's really probably e-list...but of course there's also tori spelling as violet. oh and leah remini as stacey in the malibu sands episodes. there were probably others that i can't remember offhand. man saved by the bell is so fantastic. the caffeine pill episode was on a couple weeks ago. such emotion, such drama, such power. let's not even talk about the zack and kelly breakup episode.

well have i rambled enough for you? what else can i talk about?

i love la nova pizza

i love grape bubble gum

i hiked in zoar valley the other day and it was super great

i am so excited to see (e:mike) in his new glasses and new wheels.

i hate rite aid and will forever deny its existence in the eckerd on elmwood.

hiking man and i spend a great deal of time together and i like him a lot and i think he likes me a lot and that's cool.

i'm singing in the bernstein mass in the fall and that piece is f-ed up but that's the best kind of music.

i love facebook.

i love saved by the bell.

I LOVE THE KITTYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So yes my friend Ashley and I made kitty litter cake at my house yesterday in honor of poker/margarita night at her house with her, her mom and stepdad and hiking man.

We ended up abandoning the recipe pretty much and made our own green/funfetti variation which ended up looking more like a cat pooping in a garden. Oh, well. It looks gross but it was very yummy. Enjoy. :)

p.s. I really wish pictures would upload in the correct order.

It begins.

Apparently I look funny when I pour things.

One of my true loves...funfetti cake.

The litter, aka crumbled up cookies with green food coloring.

Making little corn out of lemon Tootsie Rolls.

Makes it more authentic!

And grosser.


mmmm cake.


PRETTY PUDDING.


Cooling the cakes.

Lucky, who did not move from our feet the entire process.

"Drop a cake...or a cookie...do it...just do it..."

See?


THE BOY!

Crumbling up the cakes.

The recipe calls for two whole cakes to be crumbled up and then put back together with pudding. Makes it look grosser.



Funfetti and white cake with greenish pudding.

The cake before we mushed it all down.

You're actually supposed to do it in a real litter box but a) we couldn't find one small enough and b) we didn't really care that much.


Layer 1.

Layer 2 - the "litter".

Poop?

Pudding, mmmm

A closer look.

OUR CREATION!

Before it was served with the authentic pooper scooper!

(It was new. At least, that's what I was told.)

YAY CAKE!



Hungry?!?!?!?!?! :)