oh hey summer

still no updates on ND. i've been surprisingly busy this past week.

Friday was my first real day of summer (being done with my masters and such).
i started the day feeling really anxious. you see, on tuesday night, while i was at the mall, my car started freaking out and i couldn't drive it, so i spent the week without my car. long story short, i got it towed Friday morning and spent part of the afternoon crying from shock at the price to fix the car and the fact that i was completely helpless in this situation. i absolutely hated dealing with this situation because it was very inconvenient. i mean, my car was stuck at THE MALL, which is forever away from where i live (or at least it seems that way). i also really dislike asking people for help, and i had to do that a lot this week-- calling up various friends to get me around columbia. i think this is what i hated more than having to pay the mechanics. my car troubles helped bring to the surface again how much i fear being an inconvenience to people. i had to fight that this entire week, and let me tell you, it is EXHAUSTING. i am looking forward to some real rest in this upcoming week.

yesterday i also sorted through all of the papers i have accumulated over the last 13 months, it is a VERY huge stack. i found notecards that i had my students fill out on the first day of school that asked them: 1)what is your favorite tvshow or movie 2) what do you like to do for fun? and 3) what is a talent you have that most people don't know about.
i realized after reading through them yesterday, i had never read them during the school year. i feel like i missed out on a piece of my kids having missed this information, but it was nice getting to remember them for a few minutes.