Practicum

I've been to my practicum twice now, and I have a focus child. Things are going well. I wrote up my site description. I think it sucks because I have been to the site only twice. I'm going to ask my professor today if I can have the option to edit and re-submit my site description in two weeks when I have more time at the site. I wanted to get it in on time since I have so many other deadlines looming in the distance, I didn't want this one to bog me down as well. All of my professors have said that they will push back assignments for me since I got my practicum assignment two weeks late, but I'd rather just go along with the current deadlines. I might re-negotiate later, but for now, I'm full steam ahead.

My first presentation was yesterday. It was a group presentation on Piaget. That was fun. I learned quite a bit about the Sensory Motor stage of cognitive development. I never realized just how much an infant learns, and that only the infant can teach itself these things. It's amazing. I never liked babies that much, but because of this project, I now find them fascinating. When Navigator talks me into having one, it won't be so difficult.

I'm so far behind on my readings that I feel like there is no point to attempt to catch up. What's funny is that over the summer I kept thinking that I would have more time to do things once fall term began. I feel like I have even less time now than I did over the summer when I was working 35 hrs/week AND carrying 12 credits. I have worked 12 hours in the past two weeks. Where is all my time going?

I had some homework to do today. I thought I would have to skip yoga in order to get it all done. I finished it about an hour ago. I still don't want to go to yoga. I'm afraid I'll have to do a hand stand. I have no upper body strength. The only way to get it is by going to yoga and doing such crazy things as hand stands. When I go to yoga and do hand stands, I ache, but I feel better about myself and my ability. I also am way more relaxed. Navigator ordered me to go to yoga today because it makes me a happier person. If I can't get myself there intrinsically, I'll go by order of the husband, and I'll thank him tonight.

Difficulty Blogging

I thought I would be able to Blog over my break from school. It didn't happen. I never got my journal up on Trailjournals, so nobody knows about my near-death experience. I still haven't downloaded the pictures from my camera. One of these days... (As I say this, I'm reminded of a poem by Nimblewill Nomad).

I went back east to visit my family. Attended my brother-in-law's surprise 40th birthday party, visited friends in New York City and drank too much, and purchased some artwork from the National Gallery of Art in DC. I also finally got to see the new WWII memorial and say hello to Honest Abe when I was out there. The pictures are still on my camera.

When I returned, Paul flew out to Tahoe & I moved our stuff into our new condo because school was starting that monday and I didn't want to have to move when I was in school. We are still living out of boxes and I have no idea where our Netflix movies are packed. I took pictures, but they're still on the camera.

I'm supposed to be transcribing Teatree's journal right now. I haven't found any time. I'm thinking about mailing it to Northerner and telling him that I just can't do it. I was doing a stellar job for a while, now I suck.

School has been going well. I finally started my practicum and things are due soon. I'm beginning to freak out, but I think I'll get over it soon. I've started to eat more chocolate.

I go to yoga every Wednesday. My instructor kicked me out of level 1, so now I'm in level 2. I'm glad I'm in level 2. It's difficult and some times I think how much I really hate it, but in the end, I love it. I can do a head balance (it looks like a head stand, but you're not really standing on your head, you're just balancing on it. All of the weight is on your shoulders and upper body on account of the fact that it's not safe to put all that weight on your head and neck). AND I am almost able to do a hand stand. It's amazingly difficult and my body screams the next day, but I feel good that I'm actually gaining upper body strength.

I rode my bike 21 miles yesterday. On my way home from class, the battery for my headlight died. I was pissed. That's not safe, especially when it gets very dark pretty early.

We are fostering cats right now. My friend Leticia has a friend who is taking care of her daughter's cats. Her apartment complex gave her an ultimatum and she needed a safe haven for the kitties until her daughter gets back from Germany next month. Since I was fortunate enough to have people take care of my kitties when I needed it, we decided to do the same. So, now we have two sweet kitties, a mom & her daughter, Zelda and Gordis. They're spanish speaking cats. Luckily I know a little spanish, so I can get them to come to me by saying "Ven aqui!" They are spoiled kitties. Their collars have rhinestone initials on them, they have a big fluffy bed, two scratching posts and a special thing that hooks on the window sill so they can sit and look out the window. Sweet babies! I'll take pictures and leave them on my camera for a couple weeks.

We're going to fix up the guest bedroom for the cats since they are our first houseguests. Right now it's full of boxes. :)