There's a new Mrs. Barrett in town

Whoever said wearing corsets is out of fashion is misguided. The last semester I spent time in Old Town San Diego, playing Mrs. Augusta Barrett, the second schoolmarm of Mason St. School. The best part? The hoop skirt and corset. Yeah. First of all, being the only girl intern gets me out of lifting hay bales :). I got to create and run historic games of the fourth grade students who visited every week. And once, I dressed as the green fairy. (For a restaurant opening) And now a little excerpt from a conversation with fourth graders one morning...
TEACHER: Are you guys running games today?
ME: Yes
TEACHER: ok guys follow these funny dressed people.
GIRL STUDENT: What are you supposed to be?
ME: We're people (I was walking with another intern). What are you?
GIRL STUDENT: I'm a person.
ME: oh so we're the same.
GIRL STUDENT: No, your people, I'm a person.
BOY STUDENT: Apparently your in the wrong era.
ME: YOUR in the wrong era!
TEACHER: Ok guys we need to let them set up and come back later.

Yeah, kids say the darndest things. Oh, picture relevancy, thats the real Augusta Barrett.

Where do we go from Here?

First off, the grammatical structure of my title must be noted as evidence that I have just proof-read an essay and am contemplating whether or not the first and last word should be capitalized (as is the rules for titles). Or does the title line of blogspot.com just suggest its the first line of the blog, in which case the last word should not be capitalized. Yeah enough with that. I just finished my last paper as an undergraduate. I officially have no more college work to be done. And paradoxically, it is a bit sad, even though I am jumping for joy. For the last 16+ years of my life, all I have known has been deemed legit by the schedule of a school year. Now what do I do, go to work, come home and not write out that 6 page essay I had put off? Life as I know it will change dramatically, and all because of that one little (ok so its pretty big!) thing called school that most people can't wait to get out of! Oh and the picture, my last paper was on Cleopatra (as stated in my previous blog), so I felt a tribute must be paid. Cool fact: I actually cited this book a lot in my paper! So life now... I guess I will have to wait and see!!

The Great Procrastination

Yes this is it folks... last week of undergraduate work EVER! And what am I doing? Blogging about the paper instead of actually writing it. I guess it just wouldn't be a final paper if I didn't put it off until the last day. And believe it or not, the image is relevant to the paper. Ancient Rome, my last college undergraduate class (which is kinda an oxymoron because its a graduate level class!) Ah yes, the picture... the paper is on a fictional depiction of Rome and arguments for the historic accuracy (or lack of!) in it. So I am not actually using the movie Gladiator, but rather the miniseries Rome. I don't recommend it!! Either way, I will take this stance of Maximus', sword (the pen is mightier...) in hand, battling this last paper "at my signal, unleash..."

Blast from the Past

So I just realized I haven't updated this in a LOOOOONNNNNNGGGGG time. And that blogs are more likely to be read if there is a picture attached. A recent show on the tele addiction has me thinking "this is so going in my blog" (thanks all 1 of you that got that). Another recent fad in my life, using my scanner (see example to the left). The black Friday shopping trip got Jordan and I a printer/scanner, and only a week ago did I learn how to use it. You know, this technology stuff may be catching on....