Winter Musings

As much as I complain about not having a full-time teaching job, I must stop to reflect on how good my life is right now. Darin and I got a new puppy a couple weeks ago. We named her Daisy Mae. She is the apple of our eye right now, even if she still has accidents in the house and is constantly appearing with socks, shoes, and other chewable things in her mouth. Here's a photo:


I registered to take the GRE in January, and I will be applying to a couple different graduate schools' Speech Pathology programs. Ideally, I want to get into Eastern because they have a strong educational track in the program. I'm going back to school because it's a good place to be investing money during a recession, and I realized the past few months that I am capable of working in the special ed realm. It's an important and time-consuming field, but it's worth it. I love language, particularly phonetics and phonology (the study of the sounds of speech). I think this will be a perfect fit for me; a perfect compromise of my desire to teach and my desire to persue linguistical studies.

I hope to start my first vegetable garden this spring. My landlord will not be consulted about it; here's hoping he doesn't mind. I've always had a passion for growing things. I read any book, magazine, or article that I can get my hands on that has anything to do with gardening/urban farming/sustainable living.

Winter Break is upon us, which means no substitute teaching jobs for two weeks. I am going to use the time for the following:
-study for the GRE
-apply to grad schools
-work on getting financial aid or, even better, a grad assistant position
-applying to teaching jobs (as always)
-perfecting my porfolio
-training the puppy to not chew my shoes!