seriously, made my day.
slacker. September 18, 2008
wow, i have been such a slacker!
let me just tell you, the water day that we planned for summer camp in my last post–not so smooth as we hoped. it turns out that the pipes need caps on the bottoms of them, or the water just leaks out the bottom. sweet. would have been helpful to know earlier. thanks. next year.
so summer camp ended august 8th. and i moved into school august 10th. and really haven’t stopped to slow down since. with my job as an ra, secretary of sea, campus pals coordinator, babysitting, and education department student rep, i feel like i don’t have a life! or maybe i have too much of a life? good question.
classes are going well, we get to do a real psychology experiment this semester, which should be quite interesting. my roommate and i are also in a history of psychology class, and our apartment has essentially been turned into a timeline of psychology to assist the learning process of that.
that is about it for now. i will definitely (try my best to) keep this thing updated way more often, for your (whoever “you” are–i know you’re out there, i see the stats!) reading pleasure!
sometimes i wonder how i live… July 23, 2008
i’d like you to take a moment and imagine this scene in your head.
it’s about 4 o’clock on monday. tuesday is supposed to be “water day” at camp. i have this brilliant idea for a relay race that involves pvc pipes (the relay race is a whole totally different story!), so i take a little trip to home depot to purchase said pipes.
i wander around the store for awhile, and finally find what i am looking for. i pick up the 8 foot pipes, one under each arm, and try to make my way to the front of the store, meanwhile knocking people over left and right. i finally reach the register, where i am totally mocked by the guy at the check out. i pay for the pipes and head out to my car….
where i realize that my car is not 8 feet long, and thus there is no way these pipes are going to fit inside. i must have looked like such a fool trying to get them in every which way, but really no matter what i did they would not fit!
so i picked them back up and headed back into the store, praying i wouldn’t knock anymore innocent bystanders over. i walk to the customer service desk and told them that the pipes wouldn’t fit in my car and asked if they could saw them in half for me. they kindly told me to go to plumbing, where someone could help me.
except when i explained my dilemma to the sweethearts in plumbing, they told me they could not saw them for me, but that they could give me a saw.
and so they did.
they handed me a saw. in the middle of an aisle in home depot. and i began sawing. in the middle of an aisle in home depot. and nobody helped me. and i looked like the biggest freak of nature on this planet.
ALL FOR THOSE KIDS AND THEIR WATER DAY!
The Mind Reader… July 8, 2008
So I learned a magic trick. Called mind reading. And have the kids at camp COMPLETELY convinced that I can read their minds. I really think they are terrified of me. They keep asking me silly questions like, “what does it look like when you read minds?” and “when did you realize you could read minds?”
So of course I’m playing along with it. And every time I see a kid I tell them “I know what you’re thinking!” Pretty hilarious, really. We’ll see how long it lasts!!
And the quote of the day…
While pushing an 8 year old kid on the swing:
“How’s this for aerodynamic?!”
the joys of summer camp :) July 6, 2008
1 week down, 5 to go! 
7 injury reports, 2 incident reports, 3 crying children, and 1 crying parent.
i’d say it’s been a good week!
Quotes of the Week:
while playing jump rope with a little boy: “miss carolyn, i think you’re too old for this!”
after i told a group of 3rd-4th graders that if anyone could beat me in connect 4 they could be in charge for a day: “we are going to fight! we are going to fight for freedom and justice!”
dancing with a little boy in the gym: “miss carolyn, sometimes you are just really weird!”
conversation at lunchtime:
‘miss carolyn, can you open my chips?”
“sure, what’s the magic word?”
“abracadabra!”
warning! June 19, 2008
this is just a post to serve as a warning that the rest of the summer will probably be full of funny children-story blogs!
i had my first day of training for camp today, and man this summer is going to be interesting! i am the director at a school where there will be three inclusion leaders, a few regular leaders, and myself. the camp is an inclusion camp, and we already have ten children with disabilities signed up. we have training through next friday, and then the camp starts june 30th. i am sure that it will be challenging, but i am much more looking forward to the rewarding aspects of it.
i am also teaching some piano classes, which are scheduled to start next week!
so, readers beware! let the summer begin!
we survived! but the mouse didn’t… May 29, 2008
somehow we survived camping in new hampshire on some random mt. chocorua. it was really beautiful. despite the lack of running water. the ride up was full of horrifying statements including, “holy cow we are going to be eaten by bears,” and “can you believe we just took our last shower in the next five days?”
but it all worked out quite swell. we made some new friends, hiked up a big mountain, i learned how to make a fire, and we did a lot of relaxing. quite swell indeed.
well, except for the possible lyme disease, but i think we have that under control.
oh, and the mouse that we killed on the car ride home. kankamangus was his name. we saw him chilling in the back seat of the car before we left, and tried to cleverly catch him with two paper cups. but he was not fooled. no, he got away, and thought it would be cute to run across our legs sporadically throughout the trip. until the air conditioning started making a sound like duh duh duh duh duh duh duh (really fast). so we turned it off to investigate. and turned it back on. duh duh duh duh duh THUMP. needless to say, we didn’t see any more of kanka for the rest of the trip. poor mouse.
overall though, it was a fabulous trip and a great way to start off the summer of adventures! next up–wmzqfest this weekend!!
Virginia Tech Commencement May 16, 2008
I went to my friend’s graduation at Virginia Tech last weekend, and since then have been trying nonstop to find the words to describe Friday night’s commencement ceremony. I still have not been able to put any coherent sentences together describing the emotions that I felt, and so I decided, rather, to share the experience with you.
Hoda Kotb was absolutely phenomenal. She had me in tears, although that doesn’t take much to do . She also made me laugh. She made me want to live every minute of my life as if it were the last, and the best.
I just watched this video again, and was again brought to tears and laughter. And still, I have no words.
sup, g? May 5, 2008
so my grandma is in the hospital (not new news), and today the following came out of her mouth, to her nurse:
“true dat, g”
AND
“i’m down with that, dawg”
…but the best part is that when the nurse asked her where she learned that she said
“my grandkids!”
…not so sure i wanna be associated with that
Now What? April 27, 2008
This weekend I was asked to dogsit. Those of you who know me know how much I absolutely adore dogs (note the sarcasm). This really was the perfect job for me! Actually, Thursday and Friday were fine. The dog was still alive, and life was happy.
But then, on Saturday…
My friend and I went around 8 to let the dog out. The dog was (of course) excited to see us, and we walked outside with her. We played with her a little and she ran around the yard doing her little dog thing. We were getting bored and wanted to get back, so we called the dog to come back inside. I turned the doorknob, and it would not turn. My friend turned the doorknob, still no turn. CRAP.
We tried the front door, but apparently decided to lock that upon entering the house. I could not remember the garage door code for the life of me, but that wouldn’t have been any help anyway because the door from the garage into the house was locked too! Our cell phones were inside. The car keys were inside. EVERYTHING was inside! We did some quick thinking and got a CD out of the car. We broke it in half and used it to try and pick the lock. No such luck. I knocked on the neighbor’s door, but there was no answer. I knocked on another neighbor’s door, still no answer.
I remembered that Mr. and Mrs. R had a key to the house, but had no idea what Mr. and Mrs. R looked like, or where they lived. I started knocking on random people’s doors asking them if they knew. Nobody knew. My favorite response was from a kid about our age when I rang the door bell… “Sorry, no party here tonight!”
Then it started to rain. I was seriously about to cry. Finally I rang on a lady’s door that knew where Mr. and Mrs. R lived. I found their house, and Mr. R was outside. I asked him how he was and he said that he had locked himself out of the house. I don’t know if he was making fun of me, because his wife was inside. But I don’t know how he would have known that I was locked out! Weird.
Anyway, they let us into the house about an hour and a half later. Needless to say, we were extremely relieved. We had been considering our options of sleeping outside with the dog, or breaking a window if we couldn’t find these people!
