You like me, you really like me!

For the past few weeks, I've been teaching a unit on shapes in my kindergarten class.  It's actually been really interesting--no, I'm serious!  If you don't believe me, then you seriously underestimate the mind of a 5 or 6 year old.  Which, incidentally, is why everyone writes off kindergarten as a joke, when in reality it's one of the most important and fascinating time in a child's education.  Anyway, my point is that last night, due to my expertise in procrastination (a talent which I've been perfecting since the 6th grade), I was suddenly faced with writing up a whole Unit of lessons in one night.  I have to say, I was a little worried that I wouldn't be able to pull it off.  Luckily, my trusty last-minute writing skills from college kicked in, and I banged out all 8 lessons in 2 hours AND I got to watch the first half of the Oscars*.  Not too shabby.

Now, it just so happens that my dormant ability to work well under pressure reemerges at the perfect time, cause guess what?  I got accepted to Boston College's Lynch School!  Yay me!  For those of you who don't know, the Lynch School is a well established Education graduate school, and I was particularly interested because they offer a program in Early Childhood Education.  I think it would be a great experience, but what I really care about is that it's the only place that has accepted me so far.  I have been in limbo, waiting to hear from the schools I applied to, so just to get into one is such a relief.  

So that pretty much made my day.  Of course, as I was gushing on and on about how happy I was to my dad, he immediately replied, "Well appreciate the good feeling now, cause eventually it's gonna go downhill again."  Gee, thanks dad for those uplifting words of advice.  Actually, I totally agree with him.  I just keep waiting for my apartment to flood, or my car to get a flat, or something.  I'm not used to all this happiness.  It's creeping me out.

*I have to say, I was totally underwhelmed by the Oscars this year.  The jokes were particularly corny (Damn/Dame Judy Dench?).  And why was George Clooney so angry at the beginning? And Avatar didn't win Best Picture.  But hey, The Cove won Best Documentary!  Go to Sandshack's blog to read more about this amazing movie.