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 :)

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Media Blitz

  • I ate cookies dipped in pudding tonight while watching Friends, in order to deal with the stress of paying all my bills.
  • I'm getting very accustomed to the way we speak to the kids at work (i.e. we tell them "I need you to [do something]" instead of "You need to...", "You have to...", etc.)...so accustomed, in fact, that it bothers me when people don't speak to me this way! Maybe it always has and now I have a concrete way of understanding it. Specifically, tonight, when I asked my bell choir director to direct us through the end of the piece, instead of playing the piano, because there are a lot of tempo changes, she said, "No, you need to hear this part - we'll do that [her directing] on Sunday morning." In my head, I was like, "I do NOT need to hear it - I need you to direct!" It took a lot for me not to yell that.
  • My dad gave me some great advice for getting Chloe to stop clawing her way along the bottom of the couch - spray her with water! I did it and it totally freaked her out and she ran away. When she tried to do it again, I just held up the bottle and she ran away. I did feel a little badly but you can't say my cat isn't smart - it only took the one time and she got the concept!
  • Also: 11 Reasons Cats Make The Best Alarm Clocks. Chloe does #2 when she's hungry in the morning. And I want a #11.
  • I am horrified by the story of the 150+ people killed by a collapsed clothing factory building in Bangladesh today. I am equally angered by the fact that the funeral of the MIT police officer is receiving equal or more media coverage. This is one of several instances recently that have re-frustrated me with US media - others being the threats by North Korea (notice how much coverage that is getting now?) and the Boston bombing. Although these are grave occurrences, they are not unique in our world - just not in our country. I find it almost egotistical that we have dedicated so much publicity and so many violent words (i.e. "bombing" and "terrorism") to the Marathon incident. I feel like doing this seriously diminishes the impact that the earthquake in Iran, the continuing war in Syria and the daily terror in the Central African Republic has on the people in those places. Do our news sources think that the pain of those people is not the same as ours? Maybe not but it sure seems that way a lot of the time. Prayers and thoughts go out to anyone suffering tonight.
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