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summer is crawling by.

last week there was an intense thunderstorm here. providence is situated on a bay, and during the storm a huge oil tanker was transferring fuel to a fuel storage facility when it was struck by lighting. the whole thing went up in flames. i did not witness the fire, but my friends who did told me that the flames were hundreds...
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So....I've managed do many things since my little eighth graders graduated. This is the first full summer I have had off in years. I spent most of my college years taking classes during the summer, and now that I am finally a working gal my summers are free, free, free. I thought I was going to get bored, but I have been anything but! I...
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hmmm.....
one week left before summer begins.

I bought Barnaby an XBox 360 for his birthday. He told me I shouldn't have spent so much money on him, but to be honest, I wanted it just as much as he did. I've probably been playing it more than he has as well. He deserves to have something nice right now. He just finished his first full year of grad school, and I...
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I had eight students is one of my classes today.
After homeroom, 35% of the total school population was absent. I'm sure that number greatly increased as parents came to pick up their children early to bring them to the protest and march.
I'm so glad to see that people are finally trying to shake things up a little.

ugh....my feet hurt.

i have been hired to sub in providence, and i start after february 14th.
however, my professor has emailed me with a more permanant job lead in woonsocket. he thinks i have a good shot at getting it.
we'll see what happens!

I am done with college! Well, I still have a mess of grading to do for my students, but technically I am done!
I also might have a tutoring job lined up until something more permanent comes along. I'd be working with behavioral problem students one on one in a Providence middle school.
I am sick, but I can't complain because I've been sleeping in,...
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We put Dusty to sleep last night. The cancer was starting to cause him pain, and he would not eat unless someone sat by his bowl and stroked his head while he slowly chewed. We decided it was best to put him down before he started to suffer.
He was not scared, and I held him in my arms as they administered the drugs. My...
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Things are going well. I am back at the middle school, and I am so much happier there. I have three seventh grade classes, and my students are crazy, but I love it. I play Mad Libs with them because it helps them practice their parts of speech. In health they are studying drugs so when we play they give me verbs such as snort,...
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