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Dec. 16th, 2006 03:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flyakateWell, I emerged from the end of the semester relatively unscathed (a predeliction to taking spontaneous naps in the past two days, but that's to be expected). I successfully turned in a portfolio on Thursday detailing my growth over the semester (whee?) and the presentation was way less high stress than our professors set it up to be. Shocker, they were just trying to make us more anxious *shakes head*
I can't believe I finally get out of here and fly to California tomorrow. *would be giddy, but tired woah* My goal today is to clean my room majorly, go buy an NYU tshirt (Xmas present) and finish my Christmas cards. Partly because I know that I need to figure out the large amount of papers in here before I leave, so that I am not swallowed alive by them when I return. Also, I need to find all my textbooks, because some of them are ones I'm using next semester too and therefore should read over break.
The other thing, is the fun Xmas Wish list meme. I did a verison of this, but to follow the "rules", here it is really. Link to yours, please and thank you :o)
MY WISH LIST, by Flyakate:
1. Kid picture books. Used or not, as long as they are not falling apart. Soon-to-be-teachers are poor, yo. Especially wanted if these are books you liked as a kid and not Where the Wild Things Are. XD
2. Recommendations of nice comfy not-sneakery grownup shoes, because I suck at finding shoes that don't give me blisters on my heels. *pouts*
3. Colorful, comfy, fun socks. Whee, socks.
4. Bouncy exercising music (or something fun/upbeat to listen to), because I need to exercise the student teaching eating-too-much-crap-ness off yesterday.
5. Music by Ladysmith Black Mombazo will win you everything, for life. *nods*
6. Newsies? I mean, come ON, singing Christian Bale!
7. Cards/pictures/small artsy things to hang on the wall. Funky as you like, quotes are fabulous. Collages/original art is also amazing.
8. Fanfic, if that's your thing, totally rocks. Ummm, Firefly, Supernatural, Due South, especially, but also Dark is Rising, Dark Tower, and RENT, too.
9. Recipes of tasty, not ridiculously bad for you things. That are not hard to cook. Wow, coherent.
10. An elementary teaching job in California. Preferences near San Francisco, but near LA-ish is okay too. Hey, it could happen...
If you would be needing my address, email me at KatStarling9@yahoo.com. Yis.
STEP ONE
Make a post (public, friends-locked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love a ______ icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("all I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV."). The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.
If you wish for real life things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.
Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ or link to this post so that the holiday joy will spread.
STEP TWO
Surf around your friends list (or friends' friends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. and now here's the important part:
If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use -- do it.
You need not spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf -- to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not -- it's your call.
There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Give, and you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.
I can't believe I finally get out of here and fly to California tomorrow. *would be giddy, but tired woah* My goal today is to clean my room majorly, go buy an NYU tshirt (Xmas present) and finish my Christmas cards. Partly because I know that I need to figure out the large amount of papers in here before I leave, so that I am not swallowed alive by them when I return. Also, I need to find all my textbooks, because some of them are ones I'm using next semester too and therefore should read over break.
The other thing, is the fun Xmas Wish list meme. I did a verison of this, but to follow the "rules", here it is really. Link to yours, please and thank you :o)
MY WISH LIST, by Flyakate:
1. Kid picture books. Used or not, as long as they are not falling apart. Soon-to-be-teachers are poor, yo. Especially wanted if these are books you liked as a kid and not Where the Wild Things Are. XD
2. Recommendations of nice comfy not-sneakery grownup shoes, because I suck at finding shoes that don't give me blisters on my heels. *pouts*
3. Colorful, comfy, fun socks. Whee, socks.
4. Bouncy exercising music (or something fun/upbeat to listen to), because I need to exercise the student teaching eating-too-much-crap-ness off yesterday.
5. Music by Ladysmith Black Mombazo will win you everything, for life. *nods*
6. Newsies? I mean, come ON, singing Christian Bale!
7. Cards/pictures/small artsy things to hang on the wall. Funky as you like, quotes are fabulous. Collages/original art is also amazing.
8. Fanfic, if that's your thing, totally rocks. Ummm, Firefly, Supernatural, Due South, especially, but also Dark is Rising, Dark Tower, and RENT, too.
9. Recipes of tasty, not ridiculously bad for you things. That are not hard to cook. Wow, coherent.
10. An elementary teaching job in California. Preferences near San Francisco, but near LA-ish is okay too. Hey, it could happen...
If you would be needing my address, email me at KatStarling9@yahoo.com. Yis.
STEP ONE
Make a post (public, friends-locked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love a ______ icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("all I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV."). The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.
If you wish for real life things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.
Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ or link to this post so that the holiday joy will spread.
STEP TWO
Surf around your friends list (or friends' friends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. and now here's the important part:
If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use -- do it.
You need not spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf -- to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not -- it's your call.
There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Give, and you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.
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Date: 2006-12-17 12:02 am (UTC)Aside from picture books, do you have any specific things you're looking for?
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Date: 2006-12-17 12:34 am (UTC)ummmm. other things? There are particular books that I know I want: Click, Clack MOO (to teach sound effects in stories), The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats, and Fireflies by Julie Brinckloe.
Otherwise, I just know that when I teach, odds are my classroom won't exactly be bursting with books. However, I don't know what grade I'm going to get a job teaching next year :o) So at the moment, anything that is a good "read-aloud"....
Hopefully that makes sense? XD