Immaculata University: Sarah McClean

I'm getting ready to plan a lesson for my educational field experience! I can't wait, every step like this is one step closer to having "my" classroom-- I just hope my lesson goes over well. I really dislike American Lit, but that's what my cooperating teacher teaches, so I have to do a lesson on the Declaration of Independence, from a literary standpoint. Oh well, I'll just get excited anyway!
My roommate and I unbunked our beds because we are incredibly strong and innovative, lol. Really, though, it only took us like half an hour to completely redo the room, and I don't have to face the daunting challenge of climbing down from incredible heights in the early morning. I think the setup is cozy and nice, and facilitates me doing work in comfortable positions. like on my bed. YAY!
Also an item of extreme excitement: FOUR DAY WEEKEND!! I know I never have class on Fridays, but CCD and my observations are both cancelled because of All Saint's Day-- I'm going to go home and RELAX! Which translates to feverishly writing papers. Or not. and feverishly writing them later, at obscene hours of the day and night.

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This weekend: Haunted Grotto, with some very lovely (but SCARY! FRIGHTENING!) mad scientists, and the Masquerade Ball slash Halloween Dance. My boyfriend and I were thinking about being Dwight and Angela from the Office, but we'll see. My friend Priscilla and her boyfriend are being firefighters-- aren't they just coordinated! Halloween isn't really my thing, though-- I just want to be a princess or something pretty every year.
This semester is positively flying by, but at least I have very little time to think about how in the heck I'm going to get everything done that I need to get done. It'll happen though, and next thing you know, it'll be Christmas vacation... speaking of which AHHHH Christmas shopping! Oh well, I'll just give everyone Christmas cards and remind them of my undying affection for them which does not entail robbing a bank to buy them presents.
Well, I have to go teach CCD now, and then I'm running home for tonight and some of tomorrow-- it's awful, I'm really getting gipped out of my time at home this semester! But what with the play and everything else I somehow end up being involved in... there simply are not enough hours in the day!
Except Priscilla and I did take two hours after observations this morning to cook up a Tombstone pizza, eat fudge, and watch a couple episodes of Friends-- but I mean, really, have a heart now, I don't think I've stopped for three days!

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Well, my friends got married on Saturday, and we had so much fun! First the legion of us 'lata people that were going got all gussied up, and then we ventured over to the Open Door for brunch. We drove out to her church, and then the reception was at Great Valley Sheraton. We were dancing and singing and just generally enjoying the heck out of it. Then we came back here and watched this really cute movie with Meg Ryan and Tim Robbins called IQ.
This morning, I was tagged in a thank-you note via Facebook-- from my friend and her new last name! I got excited all over again.
Today, I had two classes that I really didn't want to go to, but I woke up and went to anyway, and then a midterm in my 4:30-7:00 night class. That was fun-NOT! I really don't think that true and false questions are a valid assessment of a student's knowledge-- when things are written down, all of the inflection is lost and it's a huge game of "guess what teacher's thinking." Bogus.
Then I had play practice-- the set's being built and I'm starting to really get into this: I'd better, the show's only a month away!

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I WENT APPLE PICKING THIS WEEKEND!
It was awesome-- my boyfriend and I traveled to Conte's Farm, in Tabernacle, NJ, and ate apples and exploded rotten ones and then I went home and my mom made apple cake mmmmmm.
It was a delicious weekend overall, actually-- on Friday night we went to Carraba's down the street-- I never realized so many people from Immaculata worked there!! I got some salmon thing, and pasta fagioli, and then ice cream with these roasted pecans with cinnamon and stuff-- man oh man was that scrumptious!
Jonathan Swift is a funny, funny man.
The Office continues to be great this season--"You left your TV on. And your cat is dead." "Sprinkles?!?!"

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So this new social network for Immaculata Accepted Students is exciting! It's sort of like Myspace, but you have to be invited to join-- all of the student admissions reps are on there, as well as the counselors. Great, something else for me to play around on so that I forget the reason why I got on the computer in the first place... didn't it have something to do with a midterm tomorrow?... oh well, who cares, I can change this background color!!

It is getting to be that time of the year-- slightly unbelievable, really, that we should already be at the midway point-- I think officially, it's next week, but most of my exams are this week. I guess it's bad, but I'm still sort of in survivor mode, where I never seem to get ahead, and have to plan every singular second I have. But I don't care this weekend-- my boyfriend is coming down and we're going apple picking, hahaha! I know, it's a tad risque, but I do love me some Galas.

Two weekends from now is one of my best friends' weddings, to another very good friend-- she is going to be absolutely stunning, and we are going to have a fabulous time. I am so PSYCHED! The reception's at the Sheraton right down Lancaster Pike, next to the Outback Steakhouse (which I absolutely adore, because I am a CARNIVORE!!-- actually, biologically speaking, I probably love red meat so much because my body knows I need it, as I am borderline anemic....), and a bunch of our friends will be there, and it will be a much-needed release from school concerns, as well as being an awesomely happy day for my friends!

It feels weird, though, to have friends getting married, and to maybe have my own marriage not being so vague and distant as it always seemed when I was little. I guess I still just feel like I'm only playing grown-up, a little girl just masquerading as a big person-- I may be nearly 21 years old (well, in 4 months, but it makes this sound less pretentious than 20 does), but I really don't feel that old at all. And then I interact with some people. Some of whom are a lot older than me. And I feel like an ancient sage because they're such immature babies.

Dif'rent Strokes for Dif'rent Folks!

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