I hate being the kid with the squeaky shoes. We all know who I'm talking about: that kid who walks down the hallway making that annoying noise every single time her shoes hit the ground. I loathe that noise. When you are the kid with the squeaky shoes, you know it and you feel supremely self-conscious because everyone knows that you are the squeaky shoe kid and they will probably be discussing the squeak in your shoes at length later, when you've left the room and they can finally hear themselves think because the squeak has left the vicinity. Inevitably,we all spend some time in our lives being the squeaky shoe kid, but I have actively worked to avoid being this unfortunate soul through my entire school career. It's only happened a few times and I have quickly resolved the problem by walking in a different manner (which probably got be labeled as the "weird walk" kid, but I'd rather have that than squeaky shoes).
This morning I was heading down to breakfast and I heard that ungodly sound coming from my shoes and I nearly flipped out. I cannot handle being that person, I refuse. So once again I started walking funny (but no one was around to see) and then the squeak gave up and surrendered and my shoes were quieted... all was right with the world. And just for good measure, I changed my shoes.
Friday, June 10, 2011
Thursday, June 9, 2011
JB-What A Day!
Yesterday was officially Day 1 of training for JBA, the summer camp I work for. The job is a combination between glorified camp counselor and teaching assistant and it is the best summer camp type job in the world. This is my second year and I'm so glad to be back. I met all of the new staff and got to have some fun with the old staff as well and it seems like we are going to have a really strong team this year.
As a preceptor at JBA, one of the responsibilities is to make door decorations and a bulletin board, which I touched on in an earlier post. I have some photo updates on that front. I made Walk of Fame Stars and pairs of flip flops for each of my girls and my Boggle board game bulletin board is well on its way, it even has velcro on the letters so that I can change them part of the way through camp.
With all of that crafty work and hours of getting to know you games (including Mafia where I lasted the longest I ever have and successfully helped with identifying three of the seven mafia members), I was exhausted by the end of the day, which came around 11pm, but I still hadn't unpacked anything so I was up until 2:30 am getting my four-person room situated for just me. Note: I am once again sleeping on a mega bed, this time with four mattresses.
The next few days are general JBA training, but the real fun starts when the kids arrive. I'm so excited for the theatre class! At the end of the session the students perform a 30-minute play and this year we are doing Witch Fairy and (NERD ALERT) I get to stage manage it!!!!! I spent many hours over the past few weeks making the ultimate stage management kit specifically to show off to the kids--and to use of course. It's a tackle box that is roughly two feet tall and it is full of medical supplies and highlighters. I've actively "geeked out" over it on several occasions.
If yesterday was any indication of how my summer is going to go, bring it on because it's going to be fantastic!!!
As a preceptor at JBA, one of the responsibilities is to make door decorations and a bulletin board, which I touched on in an earlier post. I have some photo updates on that front. I made Walk of Fame Stars and pairs of flip flops for each of my girls and my Boggle board game bulletin board is well on its way, it even has velcro on the letters so that I can change them part of the way through camp.
With all of that crafty work and hours of getting to know you games (including Mafia where I lasted the longest I ever have and successfully helped with identifying three of the seven mafia members), I was exhausted by the end of the day, which came around 11pm, but I still hadn't unpacked anything so I was up until 2:30 am getting my four-person room situated for just me. Note: I am once again sleeping on a mega bed, this time with four mattresses.
The next few days are general JBA training, but the real fun starts when the kids arrive. I'm so excited for the theatre class! At the end of the session the students perform a 30-minute play and this year we are doing Witch Fairy and (NERD ALERT) I get to stage manage it!!!!! I spent many hours over the past few weeks making the ultimate stage management kit specifically to show off to the kids--and to use of course. It's a tackle box that is roughly two feet tall and it is full of medical supplies and highlighters. I've actively "geeked out" over it on several occasions.
If yesterday was any indication of how my summer is going to go, bring it on because it's going to be fantastic!!!
Monday, June 6, 2011
Boggle and Buttons
I am not a crafty person. I have attempted to be crafty and it just never works out. I tried scrapbooking for awhile, I've tried crocheting, quilting, and other similar tasks, but I'm just not gifted in that way. I desperately want to be dedicated to a craft, probably because my life is one big void right now and I feel that filling that empty space with a hobby would make the days go by faster or something, but I have been looking for a crafty hobby for a couple of weeks and I think I've found it.
Please don't laugh, but I've starting making button bracelets. My mom used to have a really cool button bracelet and I always admired it so now I've decided to make some of my own. Furthermore, I think that the kids at the summer camp I'm working for this summer will enjoy them. Button bracelets seem like a pre-teen fashion fad and if I can start it at camp, I will be the coolest counselor ever. That is another reason for this hobby, I want the kids at camp to think I'm awesome. Here's hoping these things make me seem really cool!
In other news, I'm also in charge of making a bulletin board at this particular camp. It has always been a point of stress for me, but I think I've got it figured out for this year: a Boggle board. Sounds easy, but we'll see how it turns out. I've been working on it today, which is why I'm whining about crafts. They are hard. So, kudos to all of you crafty people out there, I'm green with envy. Hmm...maybe that will be my next bracelet.
Please don't laugh, but I've starting making button bracelets. My mom used to have a really cool button bracelet and I always admired it so now I've decided to make some of my own. Furthermore, I think that the kids at the summer camp I'm working for this summer will enjoy them. Button bracelets seem like a pre-teen fashion fad and if I can start it at camp, I will be the coolest counselor ever. That is another reason for this hobby, I want the kids at camp to think I'm awesome. Here's hoping these things make me seem really cool!
In other news, I'm also in charge of making a bulletin board at this particular camp. It has always been a point of stress for me, but I think I've got it figured out for this year: a Boggle board. Sounds easy, but we'll see how it turns out. I've been working on it today, which is why I'm whining about crafts. They are hard. So, kudos to all of you crafty people out there, I'm green with envy. Hmm...maybe that will be my next bracelet.
Sunday, June 5, 2011
My "Two Bed" Life
Today, I was thinking about my two beds. Since I moved back in with my parents after graduating from college, I have had two full-size beds in my room and they take up all of the space in my post-grad cave. I was looking at both of my beds and noting the differences. One bed has blue pillows and a denim comforter and the other has purple pillows and a lavender comforter. My "college bed" is entirely indicative of my personality while my "home bed" is an homage to the country girl I used to be (and still occasionally am). It's been really nice to have two beds because that means I always have a choice at the end of the day which bed I want to sleep in. It's not as existential as it sounds, I just have two beds.
Then I thought about where these beds have been and what they have seen (don't worry, it's not going to get dirty). My "college bed" has been in a house and an apartment and before it was my "college bed" it was my "teenage bed," because I got it on my thirteenth birthday. It had a brief hiatus when I was living in a dorm room, but it has been a wonderful bed. So, the point of all of this is: I have been living a "two bed" life for quite some time. As a freshman and a sophomore I lived alone in my dorm room and had access to two beds, I currently live in a room with two beds and when I move to Minnesota in less than two months I will once again find myself residing with two beds.
I thoroughly enjoy having two beds, but today I decided to cut back and commit to a "one bed" lifestyle, and by one bed I mean that I elected to stack my beds and create a mega bed. And now, as I sit atop my glorious work of art, I feel like Dwight Schrute, but only in the tiniest way.
Behold: MEGA BED!
Then I thought about where these beds have been and what they have seen (don't worry, it's not going to get dirty). My "college bed" has been in a house and an apartment and before it was my "college bed" it was my "teenage bed," because I got it on my thirteenth birthday. It had a brief hiatus when I was living in a dorm room, but it has been a wonderful bed. So, the point of all of this is: I have been living a "two bed" life for quite some time. As a freshman and a sophomore I lived alone in my dorm room and had access to two beds, I currently live in a room with two beds and when I move to Minnesota in less than two months I will once again find myself residing with two beds.
I thoroughly enjoy having two beds, but today I decided to cut back and commit to a "one bed" lifestyle, and by one bed I mean that I elected to stack my beds and create a mega bed. And now, as I sit atop my glorious work of art, I feel like Dwight Schrute, but only in the tiniest way.
Behold: MEGA BED!
Friday, June 3, 2011
There Goes the Neighborhood
Shopping for winter boots in the middle of the summer is wrong. Despite that, I spent several agonizing minutes today looking for some glacier-friendly footwear. Why? Because I'm moving to Minneapolis, MN in a few weeks and will be facing my first winter in the the Twin Cities. Now, I'm a farm girl and I'm not afraid of a little winter weather, but I've heard nothing but horror stories about Minnesota winters and honestly I'm a little freaked out about surviving the cold, because I am the quintessential summer person. I do not mix with snow... we'll see how this works out. This blog is mostly my attempt to keep everyone updated and to catalog my encounters with Minnesotans, I hear they are really nice!
I'm moving to Minnesota because I just got a job (and by job, I mean unpaid internship) at the Guthrie Theater. Here's the link if you wanna check it out: http://www.guthrietheater.org/. I will be a stage management intern from July to November and I will have the chance to work on three different shows. I can't actually type out how excited I am about this adventure, but I will try, I think it looks something like this: A;EOIJAOIDFAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHOWJFOJWFOIJDWOVHOLYCRAP!!!!AOIJ???OFWIVALDJAAAAHHHHHALEIFJWOOOHOOOOOO! and then some.
Before I leave for Minnesota, I am heading to the lesser north (aka Kirksville) to hang with a bunch of nerdy teenagers (aka kids who are cooler than me) for JBA and I'm almost as excited about that as I am for the Guthrie. It's basically all of the end of the last paragraph with fewer Ws. Since JBA doesn't start until June and I didn't find out about the Guthrie until yesterday, I have been operating on the pretense that this is summer vacation, but on productive acid. And by productive, I mean of course watching lots of movies. Which brings me to the ultimate point of this first blog post and serves as an introduction to what is probably going to be a regular occurrence on this page: I have to explain my obsession with films and the people in them.
Michael Douglas. Who would've thought? Here's a tangent if I've ever seen one (but I wasn't very good at math): I graduated from college and had a party. Simple enough. I made a playlist that I am very proud of, it's on my YouTube page. On this list were songs like Black or White, All for You, More than a Feeling and here it is: When the Going Gets Tough by Billy Ocean. If you haven't heard of it, look it up. You'll be listening to it for days. So, that song is on the soundtrack of The Jewel of the Nile, starring (hello cyclical) Michael Douglas. I decided to watch it because I got a free trial of Netflix (pointless detail) and found out it was the sequel to Romancing the Stone, and I cannot watch sequels first. It's almost as wrong as shopping for boots in the summertime. Anyway, I had to watch both of them and Michael Douglas... hot. So, then I watched The American President and The War of the Roses. Completely worth the lost day I spent staring at my computer screen. I already have a slight thing for older men, so it makes sense, but Catherine Zeta-Jones knew what she was doing.
People in Minneapolis will be so happy to have me around, right? I mean who wouldn't want someone this random hanging out with them, eh?
I'm moving to Minnesota because I just got a job (and by job, I mean unpaid internship) at the Guthrie Theater. Here's the link if you wanna check it out: http://www.guthrietheater.org/. I will be a stage management intern from July to November and I will have the chance to work on three different shows. I can't actually type out how excited I am about this adventure, but I will try, I think it looks something like this: A;EOIJAOIDFAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHOWJFOJWFOIJDWOVHOLYCRAP!!!!AOIJ???OFWIVALDJAAAAHHHHHALEIFJWOOOHOOOOOO! and then some.
Before I leave for Minnesota, I am heading to the lesser north (aka Kirksville) to hang with a bunch of nerdy teenagers (aka kids who are cooler than me) for JBA and I'm almost as excited about that as I am for the Guthrie. It's basically all of the end of the last paragraph with fewer Ws. Since JBA doesn't start until June and I didn't find out about the Guthrie until yesterday, I have been operating on the pretense that this is summer vacation, but on productive acid. And by productive, I mean of course watching lots of movies. Which brings me to the ultimate point of this first blog post and serves as an introduction to what is probably going to be a regular occurrence on this page: I have to explain my obsession with films and the people in them.
Michael Douglas. Who would've thought? Here's a tangent if I've ever seen one (but I wasn't very good at math): I graduated from college and had a party. Simple enough. I made a playlist that I am very proud of, it's on my YouTube page. On this list were songs like Black or White, All for You, More than a Feeling and here it is: When the Going Gets Tough by Billy Ocean. If you haven't heard of it, look it up. You'll be listening to it for days. So, that song is on the soundtrack of The Jewel of the Nile, starring (hello cyclical) Michael Douglas. I decided to watch it because I got a free trial of Netflix (pointless detail) and found out it was the sequel to Romancing the Stone, and I cannot watch sequels first. It's almost as wrong as shopping for boots in the summertime. Anyway, I had to watch both of them and Michael Douglas... hot. So, then I watched The American President and The War of the Roses. Completely worth the lost day I spent staring at my computer screen. I already have a slight thing for older men, so it makes sense, but Catherine Zeta-Jones knew what she was doing.
People in Minneapolis will be so happy to have me around, right? I mean who wouldn't want someone this random hanging out with them, eh?
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