american history x

i'm taking an online american history to 1877 class at the community college because earning a teaching certificate in washington state is freakishly hard and last night was my orientation. my teacher is a crazo. josh came with me, so he got to witness the crazy that ensued as well.

it started off well with a nice "who's excited about history?" welcome. then she dove right into the research paper and all its specifications. this lead to citation. wow. 25 minutes later, and after diagramming a sentence, we moved onto our four exams. i was happy to find out that i will most likely flunk the first exam. even happier to find out that crazo's high school was really tough. that's right, she somehow made the connection between our exams and her high school being just as difficult as colleges here.

somewhere in all of this she wrote 'wikipedia' on the board, pointed to it and proclaimed it as the anti-christ. yes, i agree that for academic purposes, it's not the most reliable source, but calling it the anti-christ is a little steep.

the end of the orientation (already 5 minutes after it's scheduled end) was when it really got good. this was the part of the evening she kept telling us to trust her because she knows what she's doing and if we did, everything would be fine. she home-schooled her two daughters and at ages 16 and 17 they got full scholarships to the universities of their choice. trust her because she's taught music for 25 years and if she can make kids play hard notes, she can make us learn history. trust her because she tutors high school students preparing for college. convincing arguments.

she ended the evening by spitting off history terms and asking if we knew them. this was the part of the evening that she wanted to feel super smart and powerful.

i left more confused about the class than when i came in, but hey, i trust her so i'll be fine

on a less crazy note, josh and i went to the grocery store afterwards and bought pumpkin ice cream!
pumpkin + ice cream = happiness

sightings 3 and 4

naked girl was out last night and the night before!

dreaming of my hood

this morning i took the first of three tests i'm required to take to get teacher's certification in washington. well, the gre is actually to get into the masters program, but it's all the same at this point.and this afternoon i applied to seattle community college so i can take the 3 history courses i need to get into the program. it all seems like an awful lot of work just to get into the program.

i wish i would have started this process long ago.

three

i've been married for three months today and i couldn't be happier.

second sighting

we saw ugly naked girl again this morning.
i'm going to start keeping a tally.
i love that we have an ugly naked girl. you know, it's kind of appropriate because i'm a bit ocd clean freak like monica and josh is a bit funny guy makes jokes when things are awkward like chandler.

president bartlett '04

tonight, a friday night, josh and i are sitting at home not knowing what do to with ourselves. you see, about 3 weeks ago we fell in love with a little show called the west wing. since then we've spent most nights on the couch with cj, toby, josh, and the gang. we've stopped just short of moving to washington and working on the hill. i can't even describe how much we love this show.

this week we finished season 1. what a season and what a cliff hanger. season two was at the top of our bbuster queue and we were very excited for it to arrive, but come to find out there is a short wait. AHHHH! what does that even mean, short wait? how short? does blockbuster not know that we are dying over here? and so instead of season two disc 1, we received babel. not what i was hoping for.

i called every blockbuster in seattle and no one has it. so since we have no west wing, we really don't know what to do.

on voyeurism

since people have moved into the apartments across the street from us, josh and i randomly watched to see if we could catch people in situations we ought not like picking their nose or having sex.

last night our dreams came true.

josh was talking with our friend joshua in the living room when i heard, "whoa that's a naked woman.". i ran over (of course) and there she was: top floor, middle window. just walking around her apartment. naked. now i'm not judging her being naked, i am all the time, but i close my blinds! we watched her for a good five minutes (don't judge, you would have too) and would have watched for more, but i realized that my husband was also watching the naked woman.

on a sideish note: yesterday was a weird day for me and naked people. on my drive home from work i saw a man and his manness peeing on the side of the street. and by side of the street i mean sidewalk. like you couldn't have found a more secluded area to pee, maybe a bush or your home?

why i'm a vegetarian

yum.

last weekend josh and i traveled to ocean park, wa for the 8th annual roast on the coast. it's a yearly tradition my uncle and his intel buddies started way back when. they get together on the coast, roast a pig (as seen above), drink lots of beer, and sit around bonfires on the beach letting their buzz wear off.

josh read or heard somewhere that "biblical honeymoons" lasted a full year. we thought this was a good idea and are now working on our year honeymoon. every time we go somewhere on a "vacation" we tack on days, so we decided to add two more days to our honeymoon and make the trek out.

on the way over, we stopped in aberdeen on the advice of friends to visit the star wars shop. yes, that's the name: the star wars shop. quite incredible really. an entire store devoted to an eclectic mix of star wars memorabilia. the owner had an autographed tattoo of carrie fisher in her golden bikini on his arm.

the roasting festivities began shortly after we arrived, but the real luau feast was on sunday afternoon. the pig was fantastic from what i hear. but i think my fake chicken patty won the roast. my favorite activity was flying kites with josh (and let's be honest, watching cable tv in the hotel room).