I'm not unemployed anymore - I actually have a very fabulous job as a preschool teacher with the University of Michigan child care centers. But I'm still posting, albeit a little more irregularly, and I don't want to ignore the personal progress I've made since starting this blog by renaming it.

Blog inspiration: I read 48 States in 48 Days by Paul Jury in the summer of 2011. It was fabulous...although he planned way less for his roadtrip than I would have. And at the same time, my lovely Anna was constantly reminding me that our lives were awesome, despite the fact that we didn't have job prospects, new cars, boyfriends/husbands, houses, etc., like so many people we knew. So, in an effort to appreciate my life and the crazy uncertainty that it is, I started writing this blog about the little adventures I have. (And by "writing a blog," I mean "making a list" because I make lists, not narratives.) Even if there isn't a BIG adventure that happens every day, I try to find at least one thing to list :)

Saturday, August 18, 2012

Hey Julia (Aug 17)

  • Flip phone for the win this week - my battery lasted (with me using it) from Sunday to today, and it wasn't even dead.
  • Listening to Katie talk last night and today made me really wonder about language acquisition and it's relation to child development. She's only two and a half and she has an amazing grasp on the syntax and semantics of English, whereas I struggled immensely to get my five-year-old Korean students to a basic understanding of English. I do realize that the environments are totally different. But there are other factors at work and I'm pretty sure age is one of them - which makes this topic even more fascinating. In my next life (or maybe even this life), I'll study it more - along with allergies.
  • I spoke with the best loan officer at PNC today. It helped that he knows my dad pretty well, but he also just seems like a genuinely awesome person and it was great to have that interaction with someone when I was doing something that could be really stressful. Between him and the landlord I spoke with the other day, I feel like I can totally conquer adult things, as long as I have some fabulous gay men on my side :)
  • On the train ride home, an older (like 30-ish?) guy asked me "College colorguard?" because he saw me board with my flags. I told him yes, but now I also coach in Farmington. He said, "Awesome!"and kept walking. It was a quick, fun, positive interaction - a lot like the ones I had in Korea but did not expect to have upon returning home. Yay!
  • I watched Julie & Julia on the train ride home, in honor of what would have been Julia Child's 100th birthday (which was on August 15). I WILL read the book someday soon too.
  • Packing for band camp is slightly more challenging this year - it is usually my 4th camp of the summer and I am well-versed in remembering what to bring...but not this year. My weekend-in-a-backpack skills that I acquired in Korea are not as useful in this situation :/ Plus, all of my stuff is in a box or a suitcase right now. Boo.
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