LA FIN.

WHOOOOOOA Blogger died yesterday. Not cool. Mostly because it took with it all the most recent posts from all the blogs I read via Google Reader (that thing is the bomb, you know...) and has been slowly replacing them all day today. Thus, every time I check Google Reader - a pretty frequent occurrence - I am misled to believe that I have a whole bunch of new things to read, and really, I have none. How am I supposed to keep up on the blogging world?!?

[Overreacting a bit there, don't you think? Oh well. Life must go on.]

So I'm done with student teaching now. Done DONE DONE! The elementary kids are so cute. One girl gave me a super cool homemade card and hugged me a total of four times.


The rest of them signed a big card, and a lot of them wrote funny things...



(Names have been removed to preserve anonymity. You know. Because the school might come and assassinate me.)

I felt so loved.

After school, I went to the mall with The Apartmentmates to celebrate and get some new summer clothes. I decided that having had all my current clothes for several years, it's probably time to update and upgrade the wardrobe. I got a skirt, a hat, a shirt, a dress, and a necklace or two.


Here is my shameless plug for my new favorite store. I used to think that Forever 21 was totally overwhelming, but I recently discovered that it's more like a slightly-more-organized T.J. Maxx or Marshalls or something. In short, if you have the time to go digging, you'll probably end up in the dressing room with a few rounds ("No more than six, PLEASE!") of articles of clothing to try on. As stated above: new. favorite. store. Moral: go shop there, and if you're willing to sift, it'll be well worth the time, provided you want vintage-y clothes.

Now I'm sitting here on my bed with my bowl of dip and a bag of carrots...


...feeling (almost) awfully footloose and fancy free, wearing a lacy dress, and blogging in between bouts of playing(?) clarinet...


...amidst the disaster zone that I currently call my room.


By this time next week, it'll all have to be packed up. But for right now, I'm going to enjoy the freedom of no more paperwork while I block out the fact that I'm going to miss those little buggers.