Every time I think everything is coming up Emily, I find myself in a place where I'm scrambling to pay bills, realizing my school schedule is all wrong and eating bad-for-me foods and drinking too often (though not too much).

Even the security questions I'm answering are depressing:

What is your favorite vacation destination?
Where did you and your spouse meet?
In what city were you married?

And for the lower middle-class singles...Who is your favorite actor?

This cracks me up.

Also, I'm done with summer school and nailed the Praxis I this morning. 186 Reading, 187 math. BAM!

Now: Boner Killers, salad, bbq burger, CAT LOVE, CAT NAPS, Texas Beach.

it got the snot out of my head!

Umm, should I be Dr. Quinn for Halloween?

Attends ou va-t'en

The nectarine is the most delicious of all fruits. When I daydream, girls' mouths always taste like juicy nectarines.

Smooth skin may be acquired through rolling around in sand and sleeping on sheets with a thread count < 400.

A helpful suggestion for summer: Sleeping. Lack of sleep leads to social incompetence, plummeting sales record, failed concentration, bad posture and puffy eyes. Side effects of sleeping include social death, boredom, virginity.

I just want some of this to sink in, these things I write elsewhere. I want more time to myself, time to learn to discipline myself, time to learn how to take time and use it properly. I have three more days of summer school, then the Praxis I on July 26th and I go back to school full-time at the end of August. Somewhere in there I've gotta get everything reorganized for future productivity while doodling adventures in pen all over my social calendar.

batboy's son

I love this image so much.

Which is why I'm including it in my group's ADHD presentation.

simple lunches

1 tortilla
+ 1/2 avocado
+ sliced bell pepper
+ cilantro
+ sauteed mushrooms & onion
+ pico de gallo or sliced tomato
+ squeezed lime wedge
= Delicious!

1 tortilla
+ chickpeas, smashed with a fork
+ veganaise
+ dill
+ salt and pepper
+ diced onion
+ sliced tomato
+ greens (I prefer arugula)
= Chickpea salad wrap!

Hints on Pronunciation for Foreigners

Try reading this aloud:

I take it you already know
of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble but not you,
on hiccough, thorough, laugh and through.
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
to learn of less familiar traps?

Beware of heard, a dreadful word
that looks like beard and sounds like bird.
And dead: it's said like bed, not bead
For goodness' sake don't call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat
(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.)
A moth is not a month in mother
Nor both in bother, broth in brother,
And here is not a match for there,
Nor dear and fear for bear and pear,
And then there's dose and rose and lose--
Just look them up--and goose and choose,
And cork and work and card and ward,
And font and front and word and sword.
And do and go and thwart and cart--
Come, come, I've hardly made a start!
A dreadful language? Man alive!
I'd mastered it when I was five.
T.S.W.

Found in Classroom Techniques: Foreign Languages and English as a Second Language (Allen and Valette)

i like health food AND champagne

Summer Emily is here. My Ed Psych class is over Wednesday and I'm ready to wear white shorts and drink on a boat. If you have a boat I can potentially fall off of, I want to do that.

Every year I make a list of things I want to do between May and September. My motto for 2010 is "why not?!" so anyway here's the list:

Swimming and sunbathing at 42nd Street x1000
Night canoeing
Camping x4 with Mattiebear and anyone else who is interested. Smith Mountain Lake, places we can swim.
Outer Banks for my 1st time
Two days in NYC
Tubing down the James
Praxis I
River house at Montross with Erin: skinnydipping, wine drinking, yacht rock listening, stingray petting
Chromeo July 26th!!!

when i'm there i wanna go but when i'm gone i don't

I've been back in Richmond an hour and I'm about ready to go.

I'M DOING IT RIGHT NOW!!!!!

"Hammer and Ferrari (2002) found as many as 20 percent of adults experience chronic procrastination for everyday tasks, while the rate for problematic academic procrastination among undergraduates is at least 70 percent (Ellis & Knaus, 1977)."
Klassen