Because I burn water.

Break n' Bake!

There's nothing better than munching cookies, gulping milk, and making fun of The Bachelor with my CBF* Libby.  All in all it was a great way to start the week.  I even got leftover cookies all week long!  Life is good.

RTD: Eat unhealthy food.  It's yummy.

*college best friend!

Michael Jordan can't swim.

Super Nintendo + Michael Jordan + flaming basketballs + zombies + robot spiders =

the best video game ever

I got to test out this fantastic new game I'm borrowing with some friends after church today.  And that's about all I can say about that.  Fantastic.

RTD: Kill zombies.  With basketballs.

Jimmy's boa + Miss Peachtree's poodle = ??

While some of you are writing papers and solving page-long calculus problems for homework, I get to make a book box.  Basically, it's elements from a story that you put in a box so you have concrete visuals when you tell the story:

Jimmy's Boa ate Miss Ivy's rare Yellow-Spotted Bongo plant
so Miss Ivy fainted
and hit Miss Peachtree
who dropped her poodle into the punch bowl
cauing the poodle to sneeze punch on Miss Greenleaf
whose alligator purse caught Mrs. Rosebud's wig.

Elementary education = the best major ever.

RTD: Put down your Stephen King and Nichloas Sparks and pick up a kid's book.  You'd be surprised how much good children's literature is out there.

The calm before the storm

After getting paid to color with kids, I came back to school to enjoy the campus ministries block party!

AKA Tie dye, baby.

I have the best life ever.

Anyway, it was nice to finally be able to hang out with some friends after a busy week at school.  :)

Hypothetical Situations

This is what your leg might look like if you were to hypothetically fall off your bike on your way home from work at an after-school program.


Sure, it doesn't look too bad... it's just a little cut under the right knee and some scrapes.  But hypothetically, let's say the fall was right in front of two of the kids you work with at the program.  This would probablly and hypothetically result in a pretty hurt ego.


Not that any of this actually happened or anything.  Just a hypothetical situation.


Hypothetically, what would you do in a situation like that?


Disclaimer: All characters appearing in this picture are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.


Reckless Tip of the Day: Make a fool out of yourself.


"Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century."

—Dame Edna Everage

This is what love is.

To Write Love on Her Arms is not some name for a Dashboard Confessional song.
It's not a passing fad.
It's not a catchy phrase for T-shirts.


To Write Love on Her Arms is a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide.


Today, I got to meet the man who started it the program, Jamie Tworkowski.  He and some friends met a girl who was struggling with addiction.  She tried to get help, but the rehab center wouldn't accept her unless she could stay sober for five days.  So Jamie and his friends took her in for those five days.  Later, Jamie wrote down her story and titled it "To Write Love on Her Arms."


If you don't know much about it, I encourage you to check it out.


Reckless Tip of the Day: Go out of your way to help someone.  Anyone.

10 points for the over-planner

Well, readers, you will be happy to know that I was a lot more reckless today than I was yesterday during my 10-hour coma.  Here's what happened:

I walk into the classroom where I'm interning and find out that the classroom teacher will be out for the rest of the semester.  Awesome.  I'm going to be learning how to teach from a sub.

Well, this sub, poor thing, just started today and was a little bit frazzled, as you could guess.  So I offered to teach the reading lesson for her.  That afternoon, I asked her what they were going to learn in math.  She showed me the pages and asked me if I wanted to teach again.

Thus, this SMART Board minilesson was born!  (See above.)  Basically, I made a quick math lesson up in five minutes, and taught it to the class--complete with line segment song and motions.

It was really fun.  I could get used to this whole teaching thing...

Reckless Tip of the Day: If you're an over-planner, like myself, don't be afriad to be spontaneous every once and while.