Rooney & Scratch

Robert Scwartzman, dream hunk. 

A friend recently told me that previous generations lived to work and that ours is doing it the other way around. I believe it. 

This weekend was great! While I'm getting acclimated to the daily routine of teaching, the weekends have become too far and few.

On Saturday, Emma, her sisters and I went to see Rooney at Cat's Cradle. They're a fun bunch of guys with hair that could be in an Herbal Essences ad. I'm not sure if it was the mixture of having coffee in the afternoon and the sheer adrenaline of being at a concert but I was wired until after 1 am.  Worth it. 

This morning before church, Emma and I tried out Scratch, a new bakery in downtown Durham. We both enjoyed sugar coated muffins and eating outside! This weather is a winter miracle.

Bieber Fever.

I caught it. 


Last week the Greenville mall held a Justin Bieber look-a-like contest. The younger bracket had several baby Biebers wearing skinny jeans and rocking that perfect side swept hair do. The older age bracket had only three contestants and one was a clear winner, looking exactly like Usher's prodigy. Shocker of the century was that he didn't win. 


Then I went to see the movie and felt ridiculous for a couple of reasons. The first being that at the young age of sixteen, he is a movie star and author. I'm nearly 23 and can barely figure out how to use a can opener. The second reason stemmed from the fact that I went to see a movie about a teenage boy and sang along throughout the whole thing.  

This guy didn't win!

The kid on the far left won. 

Meet Atlas.

Introducing my Valentine: Atlas Amethyst Hayes I

I adopted him from PetSmart on Sunday under the impression he was a male betta fish. He acts like a female middle schooler, sulking around in his new home.

After his rebellious emo stage is over, I think we'll get along quite well. 

Two weeks.

Hello! Sorry it's been awhile. I have a lot to tell you guys about the past two weeks. Nothing is too spectacular...in fact some of it is downright boring but you don't mind, do you?


Here goes the list:


*Gap here in Greenville closed, leaving my jobless.


* Before it closed I had to ride in a U-Haul with 2 other people and deliver furniture to 5 stores across NC. It took 14 hours and forever scarred me from entering a career in delivery and/or truck driving. 


* On January 31st, I began teaching a senior English class. Our first order of business was epics, beginning with Beowulf. It was a rough first day and I spent most of the afternoon on the verge of tears. 


*Later that night, there was a question on Jeopardy about epics! I rejoiced.


*On February 1st, I told students about said Jeopardy question but apparently they have no interest in trivia game shows. By the end of the period, two of them called me the b-word....you know which one I'm talking about. Awesome.


*Last Friday, I got a paper cut in between my pointer and middle finger on my left hand. It made me think of all "would you rather" questions that involve having paper cuts in between all your fingers. 


* This past Sunday my throat began burning unlike anything I'd ever felt before. I also woke up at 3 am because I thought I heard seagulls bickering outside my window. I deemed it a late night thought that was most likely a misconception and went about my sleeping. 


*On Monday I went to school as usual but my throat became worse as the day progressed. I ended up waiting three hours at Urgent Care to find out that I had pharyngitis and a sinus infection.


*While driving to the doctor, I passed a man feeding seagulls about a block from my apartment and realized my late night misconception may not have been a misconception at all.


*For the past two days, there has been a very mysterious alarm-type sound coming out of my desk but I have yet to figure out what it is or why it is making noise. 


* I have decided I want to open up a cupcakes & beer bakery/brewery. 


*And tonight I watched the UNC vs. Duke basketball game, the one sports event I can't miss. Too bad it had a terrible ending.


There you have it, the past two weeks in a nutshell. Any questions?