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 :)

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Better & Better

  • Yesterday, I was over an hour late to work because I didn't hear my alarms :/ I felt terrible and embarrassed - this is my real job after all, not some college part-time work - even though my coworkers were understanding and my boss wasn't angry because she knew it "was out of character" for me. (I felt a little less terrible after I got half the kids in the Willow room down for a nap and also realized that my alarms didn't go off because I got a text before the time they were set for...still obnoxious but I can blame my phone.) But today was better. First, I was really needed in the classroom that I worked in today. I'm almost always needed but today I was filling for 2 core teachers - so I was really needed. And I like working with Mel, the other teacher in the classroom. Also, when we were on the playground, Will (a child in Evergreen, which is the classroom I was in for all of last week), ran up to and hugged me, flapping his hands and yelling "Emily!" It was ADORABLE! Then (also on the playground), the little Korean girl in the Maple classroom, Ye Bom - whom I try to converse with in both Korean and English as much as possible - basically dragged her mother over to me on her way back inside to say goodbye to me (in English). She was so excited and I loved it :)
  • Now, I'm watching NCIS, New Girl and Big Bang Theory (from last week), in Cara's living room (with Cara) in front of a lovely fire :)
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