ramblings

I’m soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo excited about the week I’ll have with my own students and then the following week, not having my students but staffing other students.
I’m headed to a place out in the middle of nowhere with incredible beauty all around. It’s just an amazing place. :) This will be my sixth [...]

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work

I’m leaving Saturday for a two week business trip – I’ll be teaching/training the whole time.  Excited.  But this week of preparation is crazy.
Right now, I’m pulling together plans for the first week.  And listening to Ben Fold’s “The Bitch Went Nuts” on repeat.  It’s strangely motivating and cathartic at the same time.
I love music.
;p

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strengths

Command. Activator. Ideation. Maximizer. Strategic.
Five words that supposedly encapsulate my strengths. ;p
For work, my area team read Marcus Buckingham’s “Now, Discover Your Strengths” book and took the strength profile test. His basic premise is that most people in the U.S. don’t operate in their careers utilizing their strengths and that too often the U.S., [...]

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:)

I have come to determine that when my life is wonderful, I tend not to write much…maybe there’s something to the dramatic writer or artist needing…drama for their muse.
I have drama, most definitely…but nothing that is “dramatic” or provokes the need for release through writing and so my blogging has become stagnant, at least [...]

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catching up

My roommate said the other day in an email “Either you are insanely busy or you’re not feeling quite like yourself; how do I know this? Because you haven’t blogged in weeks.”
Yeah.
Life has been pretty full.  It’s been a great few weeks but I’ve had a lot happening in terms of work and then outside [...]

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waking up

My apartment is in utter shambles. Today my main prerogative is to clean and sort and organize.
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I took all of yesterday off and it was sublime.
Morning coffee at an outside park with the girls, then a walk in a historic downtown, stopping at a yard sale where I picked up a book and some [...]

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