more ramblings
i'm so bored today i've reorganized my sticker collection. seriously. i divided them into piles of: 1) prizes for the kids, 2) big sticker ichi-ban prizes for the kids, 3) for sticking on papers when i'm marking them and 4) birthday stickers to put in my organizer. OMG this job is killing me. KILLING ME.
they've just wheeled in the lunch tray and it smells like the mess hall of an overnight camp. memories of singing praise jesus songs and having crushes on my councellors and foon hunting with pillowcases and doing the polar bear swim at 7am. actually, i loved camp. i loved sitting around the fire toasting marshmellows and drinking hot cocoa with my fellow campers and councellors, singing kumbaya and telling ghost stories. i loved going on canoe trips and making gimp bracelets and sleeping in cabins and hiking through the woods and making applesauce sandwhiches...camp wahanowin, edgewood, kimanoya, conostogo...(tam u were pretty much there at all of them too, weren't u?)
...until you turn 18 and then camping involves getting a site in rockwood, going with your girlfriends hoping to meet boys, bringing beer (and mushrooms) and music and spending the day at the beach...
i've got a secret addiction to cycling over the coverings on the side of the roads. the ones that are all put in place, next to each other, all in a row, all along the length of the road on either side, so that each concrete piece can be lifted to do underground roadwork or whatever. when you cycle over them it makes the most satisfying sound. of rumbling or hollow knocking or i can't explain it but it pleases me.
last night T-chan invited mari, jon, miho, iwan and me over for dinner at her parents house. she had made delicious seafood curry and had previously taped two episodes of nip/tuck. i can think of a no better way to fill an evening. eating chunks of squid and clams while watching someone get his face peeled off. seriously though. good evening.
ok, off subject but...how many of you JETs out there read (or have ever read) a novel at your desk?
they've just wheeled in the lunch tray and it smells like the mess hall of an overnight camp. memories of singing praise jesus songs and having crushes on my councellors and foon hunting with pillowcases and doing the polar bear swim at 7am. actually, i loved camp. i loved sitting around the fire toasting marshmellows and drinking hot cocoa with my fellow campers and councellors, singing kumbaya and telling ghost stories. i loved going on canoe trips and making gimp bracelets and sleeping in cabins and hiking through the woods and making applesauce sandwhiches...camp wahanowin, edgewood, kimanoya, conostogo...(tam u were pretty much there at all of them too, weren't u?)
...until you turn 18 and then camping involves getting a site in rockwood, going with your girlfriends hoping to meet boys, bringing beer (and mushrooms) and music and spending the day at the beach...
i've got a secret addiction to cycling over the coverings on the side of the roads. the ones that are all put in place, next to each other, all in a row, all along the length of the road on either side, so that each concrete piece can be lifted to do underground roadwork or whatever. when you cycle over them it makes the most satisfying sound. of rumbling or hollow knocking or i can't explain it but it pleases me.
last night T-chan invited mari, jon, miho, iwan and me over for dinner at her parents house. she had made delicious seafood curry and had previously taped two episodes of nip/tuck. i can think of a no better way to fill an evening. eating chunks of squid and clams while watching someone get his face peeled off. seriously though. good evening.
ok, off subject but...how many of you JETs out there read (or have ever read) a novel at your desk?
posted by Justine at 10:20 p.m.
11 Comments:
Last year, I shamelessly read novels at my desk everyday.
This year, I no longer have the ability to read anything unless it involves celebrities.
i dont do it at my base school but i do it everyday im at my office and at many of my shos.
top books read at my office?
1. harry potter
2. adrian mole
3. bridget jones-style chick litt book that i cant remember the name of
4. hitchhikers guide
5. davinci code (a ridiculous book but quite entertaining)
basically anything that is light and flakey and doesnt require too much brain power (what is it about this place...?)
have just started tuesdays with morrie and am feeling a little nauseous by the mega fromage... perfect for work!
dont diss tuesdays with morrie!!!
i love that book!
makes me cry!
waaa
go forth and read justine, ive reaed at my desk before. just make it look like youre taking notes from the book for 'work purposes!'
Oh shit 2 of my old students have just walked in with orange hair, make up and perma tan. jesus, what is it about high school that makes these girls go mental!!!??
I read at my desk. Only thing to do when i don't have my personal comp (and gotta take a break from the public comp once in a while)..
my fav read was da vinci's code! couldn't put it down.
oh tam I read tuesdays with morrie, made me cry (back in uni)
guess i like cheesy reads.
i'm sorry kat and grace but i'm gonna have to side with tam on this one. entertaining and a light-read but rather puke-enducing. and the movie was even worse.
ok....'white teeth'...here i come
i did read da vinci code which i downloaded onto my pc...it was decent, though i've heard they're all the same.
is the new adrian mole out?
what else can you guys recommend to read at the desk?
white teeth is GREAT! Also, have you read anything by Nick Hornby? Or Haruki Murakami? Anything by either of them, in my opinion, will be good.
ps--what is FOON hunting?? Yikes.
ya, nick hornby is awesome... so entertaining. high fidelity is great and a long way down is quite good as well.
should read something by murakami, i keep hearing about him (maybe just from you laura!).
sorry, didnt mean to offend the tuesdays\davinci code readers!
ive got a good desk book for you bean, when you finish white teeth, ill bring it for you this weekend.
best nick hornby novel... How to be good.
booo
i liked the book, but then can i make an excuse and say it was the hormones?
best nick hornby is High Fidelity without a doubt....oh love About a Boy too...but, yeah.
fin
i liked high fidelity...though i've already read it!
ok...foon hunting:
when we were young (me, tam, my sister, most of our friends) went to an overnight camp called camp edgewood. the councellors there had all the campers convinced of two things. one, that there was a ghost-train that went through a certain (untracked) part of the woods at midnight on a full moon. they had some story that there had been a train wreck back in like the 20's and it still haunted that part of the woods (where the tracks used to be). so we'd leave our cabins and go and find a camping spot in the woods for that night (we'd do it every year). we'd set our tents and then the councellors would say, "oh! this is where the ghost train sometimes goes through. but you guys will be asleep anyway". so we'd always try to stay up but of course when you're 10 or 11 you always fall asleep...
however, it didn't stop me from almost pissing myself in the tent out of fear of having to go outside into the dark in the middle of the night.
and foon hunting. they had us convinced (seriously, it was i think about last year that it suddenly dawned on me that this was a lie too) that near the camp in that area they had these things called "foons". foons were supposedly a cross between foxes and raccoons. so, we'd all get together at night once or twice during the two weeks. we'd come armed each with a pillow case and a flashlight. so we'd meander along a path in the woods...looking for foons. they were so hard to find! but the councellor's always managed to find one! they would catch it in their pillowcases...but when we'd all gather around to peer in, it would suddenly get away, and the councellor would say, "hey! did you see it??? it just got away!"
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