More than dinner

Sunday night Kara, Jen, Amy and I headed out to Kokomo to eat out for my birthday. We decided on Olive Garden where we discovered our waiter sounded a bit like Napoleon Dynamite. He was a little odd.... We trucked on over to Starbucks where lo and behold, we saw a couple of guys from school, one of which Kara and Jen were in the middle of a prank war with. Well, when we left Starbucks and they settled in for a long night there, we checked their truck only to find out that it unlocked. We climbed in and turned knobs on and such. I noticed a box of granola on the floor of the truck and presented it to Kara and Jen. Considering the flour the guys recently dumped on them in the middle of the night, the granola was gladly dispersed throughout the truck. As we headed out, Kara got backed into by some dumb woman. We were suspicious that maybe she'd been drinking cause of an open box of Budweiser in the back of the car so I called the cops. The cop gets there, settles stuff and then proceeds to talk to us about where we go to school and our majors there. He asks us if we listen to Jeremy Camp and tells us it's cool to find fellow Christians. He leaves, we leave and head home. What an interesting night. Oh, and 1:30am that night, Kara and Jen get another round of their prank war: egged....yes I do mean eggs thrown at them...while asleep....close to computers and other expensive appliances. Retarded boys.

Birthday Song, part 2 by Brandon, Joel, Matt, Robert, and Nate

This song was sung to me Saturday night by Brandon and Joel. Let's just say I was crying I was laughing so hard. Disclaimer: sorry if your name appears in this....I didn't write it


Here we are again
With your birthday song

You just turned 22
We're glad we're not you

Please, let us explain
Not trying to cause you pain

It's not that you smell like poo
but your years here are through

You've spilled some coffee on my crotch
Your car broke down today

Dumping Kevin!
Rejecting Jeff!

And Gabby wants a COOKIE!!

You're gonna teach biology
and evolution versus Christology

6 foot two, you're not
but as the soccer mom, you're pretty hot

Dirty Dancing at What the Hall
Knows the anatomy of a ball

So here's a message from us both

WE LOVE YOU!!!



What a great birthday present! Thanks guys and thanks Rachel for planning it and Jenna for the cake :) You guys are great!!

The Antichrist

My students came to me yesterday and told me they think the new pope is the new antichrist and here's why:

*1st 24 hours as pope is April 20th: Hitler's Birthday
*Once fought in Hitler's army
*Looks scary

Leave it to 9th graders to come up with some great logic.

DONE!!!

That's right folks....I'm done!! PRAISE JESUS!! I just have to teach for a week and that's it! No more portfolios, no more oral defenses, no more evaluations...nothing! I can actually focus on my future: getting a job! Oh, I am loving this!!! :)

29 hours.....

In 29 hours I will be giving my oral defense......basically my entire 4 years and my education degree rides on that half hour block of time........i'm already incredibly nervous and overwhelmed.........might throw-up tomorrow

Intense stress

this is a recent blog by my dear housemate Sarah on our recent method of stress release:

toast to tommie
If you would happen upon our front porch today, you would find shattered across the steps remenants of student teaching "merch." I, claiming defeat from the upcoming Praxis exam and credential deadlines, along with Jen, protesting against her own war of attrition with full-time teaching and real teaching application deadlines, went to war against a copy of an efolio with a croquet mallet. Each power swing was dedicated to a different factor of stress in our world. Seeing the destruction complete, we floated away with a bounce of grace and punctuated the event with a feminine sigh.Here's to balancing an academic life with a professional life, to the students who do not take notes in class or attend study sessions and thus fail the exams, to the catch-22 of applying to school districts for our first jobs without actually having credentials, to the incomprehensible Praxis II exam study guides, to having the pressure of not being the first IWU students to fail the Praxis II exams, to the bloody huge portfolios we meticulously created for school districts that don't want to look at them, to the onslaught of deadlines and paperwork, and to the fast approach of graduation.
posted by Digs at 4/10/2005

wow...just wow

Nate, Luke and Jonathan trying to act like girls taking a picture.