http://runningknitter.today.com Just another Today.com weblog Sat, 13 Jun 2009 02:36:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So today I started my really fantastic summer job *fingers crossed a teaching job will pop up for me this fall* and while I was at work, my boyfriend had a pretty disturbing conversation with our neighbor. From previous conversations we know that she is a "Christian", whatever it is that ... http://runningknitter.today.com/2009/06/12/is-it-just-me-or-are-my-neighbors-insaaaaane/ I've been catching bits and pieces of the news about the shooter at the Holocaust Museum today.  This is truly baffling to me, I really can't even figure out why he decided to target that particular museum.  The news is saying that he was a white supremisist, was he trying ... http://runningknitter.today.com/2009/06/10/holocaust-museum/ I'm not someone who gets depressed easily, I'm usually able to bounce back and look on the sunny side of things without a problem.  But I got a letter in the mail today reminding me of the fact that I only have a temporary teaching contract, and that will end ... http://runningknitter.today.com/2009/06/04/sigh/ One of our good friends lost a child a few years back, so some of us gathered at a nature preserve to celebrate her life.  It was us, our friend and her toddler daughter, another good friend with her toddler daughter, and then two children their mother and their grandparents.  ... http://runningknitter.today.com/2009/05/31/uncomfortable-situation/ I somehow managed to hurt my foot when running the other night.  I just landed weird and knew that something wasn't right, but I kept running because I am apparently an idiot!  It's finally a little better, but it makes me nervous!  There is a 10k coming up soon that ... http://runningknitter.today.com/2009/05/28/ouch/ The one drawback to being a teacher is the stuff that you need to store in the off-season (summer).  I finally took some time to organize all my teaching "stuff" and all the goodies that the retiring teacher gave me, and it ended up being 4 huge plastic tubs that ... http://runningknitter.today.com/2009/05/24/i-love-bookmooch/ Went to the movies this weekend with my wonderful boyfriend, and it was his turn to pick the movie.  He picked "Haunting in Conneticut" at the discount theaters and I was all for this because it was a scary movie, an episode of one of our favorite guilty pleasures (A ... http://runningknitter.today.com/2009/05/20/haunting-in-conneticut/ I have an interview tomorrow for a summer school job, and I'm more than a little nervous.  If I don't get this job, I lose all my senority come June 30th and really that does not bode well for jobs next year.  I mean, really I know that there will ... http://runningknitter.today.com/2009/05/14/working/ I'm reading The City of Ember to my class and it is SO nice to see how into it they are!  I remember how they were just beyond checked out when we were reading Tuck Everlasting, but with this book they literally hang on to every word and groan when ... http://runningknitter.today.com/2009/05/12/the-city-of-ember/ Michael and I have caught baby fever, and we've caught it badly!  I never thought that I'd really ever get married and have children but really I guess once you meet that right person things change.  In all honesty, we can't even really start thinking about it for at least ... http://runningknitter.today.com/2009/05/12/baby-fever/