you don't know a thing about me! i wish i could be a pirate..instead i have to settle for super hero.

so today was not my best day ever.

when i got to school, i stopped in and my principal was kind enough to let me know that i did not make it into the masters program i was hoping to get into. i am thankful that she was very up front with me. now i can move on and make plans for the next three years that will not include said program. i am not real keen on going into 'any ol' masters program.' i still think this is one of the top programs available in our area, even if they weren't astute enough to recognize that i would have been a solid candidate, and whatever they perceived as lacking, i would easily be able to overcome and conquer!

so, that said, it was a rough morning. i definitely had tears this morning, in part because i really wanted to do this thing, and in part because it hurt-- i don't deal with rejection well. i think i went through the phases of grief today...apart from denial. then i got a little angry, and the song playing in my head was : you don't know a THING about me... and by the end of the day i was into a different mindset-forget about it, i'm going to wicked on friday, and i don't have time for this, so...

defying gravity...

so anyhoo...i will be working summer school, and preparing for next year. i will probably spend more time up in missouri this year than last year. regardless, whatever the next phase is, i'm going at it 110%!! i'm fired up-i just need something more to be fired up about..i finished grading my end of year DRA, and when i left school, i wanted to just drive and play pink's SO WHAT! that's kinda' how i feel right now.

chaco said he wanted me to become a pirate.

i think he just likes to say aaarrggh!

anyhoo, i am slightly sad to say i will not be joining pirate school, i just don't think it would a wise investment.

ok, life. bring it on!

julie

my superhero power of the day: catching killer fruit

SHAZAM! WOWZA!
 true to what i said yesterday, i preheated the fry daddy and got my ingredients together. i'm pretty good at this kind of thing. i like cooking-it's creative! it was really messy dipping the sandwich into the batter and then even more difficult to fit the thing into the actual deep fryer! mostly because it looked like frankenstein's monster (why do i revert back to a monster of spoken of once before?? but it did because it had toothpicks in each corner and looked like the knobs in his neck..fortunately it wasn't green). i put it in and i had to maneuver it around to get the whole thing to turn 'golden brown' because it wanted to just hover at the top and only the bottom was getting browned. but, end result:

yummy-monte cristo w/ powdered sugar and blackberry preserves because i couldn't find the raspberry!

that picture really doesn't do it justice, it was delish and it hit the spot!

so, when i went to get my ingredients yesterday, i wasn't planning on getting more fruit, but fruit farmers of america and mexico, thank me. the ham, turkey and cheeses were next to the fruit, so i decided to try papaya in honor of all of my friends in HONDURAS!! and as soon as i started cutting the papaya, my thoughts went back to lunch times at EIS by the little lunch hut.  only it isn't papaya that comes to mind, we used to buy little bags of green mango with chile or salt. you might be wondering how my mind went from papaya to mango. well, in our backyard we had a papaya, avocado and mango tree (one of each, not one tree that produced 3 different fruits...but that'd be cool!)as well as banana plants, poinsettias and aloe. it was a great little yard! the mango and avocado tree were super producers!the only tree that never really produced fruit was the papaya; now we'll see how well it dehydrates!

i decided to get started on the papaya and honeydew, because as i was cleaning something in the kitchen, out of the corner of my eye, i saw bruno (the 'big' dog) eating and the honeydew melon precariously beginning to roll toward the edge of the counter above him. i grabbed it just as it was ready to take a dive. good thing i did, because here's the size difference:

well, you can imagine what a boulder have the size of you would do if it fell on your head from the roof of your house. well, this is what i imagined:

he's really lucky that today my superhero power is catching falling fruit.

may your superhero powers be what you need them to be today!

julie