Lindsey

choypunk@cs.com — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 02:33:41 GMT

Spending lots of time in the suburbs really makes me appreciate my apartment in the city. Even though I still not so secretly love the suburbs. Mostly for shopping and giving my dogs a place to run around.

In other news, February is fucking me over, big time. I have work constantly and cannot keep up. But, my job is sweet so every time I want to cry/complain, I just think about how because of HP, I'm going to Ireland for free in a month.

I cannot wait until it is warm again so I can take Sequoia out on trail instead of riding around in the dumb barn. Also, I might be buying a new horse named Dr. Pepper. It was his racing name.

choypunk@cs.com — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:15:23 GMT

The new place is coming along fabulously. As I've told a few people, I feel like an adult now because I finally have air conditioning and a dishwasher! The place is technically smaller than our last place but the layout is much better; we have two levels and closets and kitchen drawers!

I am working this week at the hotel. It seems kind of weird being back here but it is easy money and I'm glad to help my old manager out. Plus, working here allows me to keep the sweet travel discounts that comes with working here.

Scott and I are going to New Orleans on Tuesday. We will be there for 5 days and plan on doing lots of fun and relaxing things. I am kind of regretting choosing a really hot and humid place in the summer, but hopefully it will still be nice.

Time for free yogurt.

choypunk@cs.com — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:32:20 GMT

I was in Colorado for the last week or so bike riding, horseback riding, atv'ing, etc.

I want to move there. Oh wait, except for the fact that the week before I got there, they received 5 inches of snow in Breckenridge (it was the beginning of June). Maybe I just want to summer there with my mom's horses...

I would rather be doing anything else than packing for this move right now...

choypunk@cs.com — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:41:34 GMT

Thanks to everyone who came over yesterday and sweated through the night in honor of Scott's birthday.

I can't believe that school is done in 3 days. I can't believe I leave for Colorado in a week. I can't believe that I have less than a month left in this shitty apartment.

Props to the best guys in my life - BC and Scott for taking care of the painting while I'm on vacation.

Next time we have you over, it will be in air-conditioned comfort!

choypunk@cs.com — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:27:31 GMT

So, the funniest thing is, I taught statistics to my AP Psych kids this week. For anyone that knows me, this is hilarious. But overall, I think I did a good job and I didn't completely confuse anyone or majorly fuck anything up, so that's good.

I stayed home sick yesterday. I have been sicker than I have been, probably since being at EIU (where I was sick every other week). Going back today wasn't too bad, as it's a Friday and we are done learning new content anyway because finals are next week.

Oh yeah...finals.

Today a student of mine cried because he was getting a 97% in AP and just thought that it was "so much higher..."

I can't wait until semester grades come out.

Last night, Scott and I tried to go to the Nomo show at Schuba's but for some reason, our names were not on the list and we're not about to start PAYING for shows...

Tonight I get to see Dianogah for free and tomorrow there's some other shitty show that I'm going to.

What is new with ya'll?

choypunk@cs.com — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:22:19 GMT

This weekend was spent mostly out in the suburbs. I didn't get nearly as much done as I had hoped, but that seems to be the story of my life.

Saturday Scott and I went for massages and mine was totally ruined for a minute when I looked over at Scott and his mouth was hanging open (why?) and I started laughing hysterically. We also went shopping and didn't buy anything and were then treated to dinner at Flat Top, which was awesome.

Yesterday I did zero school work.

I HOPE WE GET AN ICE DAY TOMORROW! We had a snow day last Wednesday, but in typical greedy fashion, it is never enough!

"HEY, TROUBLE"

choypunk@cs.com — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 19:22:21 GMT

I am super excited to go to the Renegade Craft Fair today that is taking place on Division between Damen and Wood. This is going to be right near my new apartment! Looking at the vendors that are going to be there, I am excited to see some stuff that I know will be awesome and some stuff that I haven't seen before. If you get a chance to go, you should. It runs today and tomorrow until 10pm.

Hopefully someone will get smart and buy me one (or all) of the following things:

http://www.trudesign.org/truche/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=66&products_id=339&zenid=4df440634c7858a775535b08d96993d6

http://www.polaire-online.com/products/BAG/BAG_whitebag/BAG-whiteBag.htm

http://figsandginger.com/a/birdringdetail.html

http://www.catiachien.com/index.php?sitepage=gallery&in_parentID=47&in_id=71

http://www.fernworks.org/jewelry2.htm

Come on, people.

choypunk@cs.com — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 05:02:10 GMT

Scott and I got finally found a place! As most of you know, I am not the happiest about renting but with what happened with my job last year, I am not going to potentially screw myself by buying something and then finding out that I have to work at the hotel and sub next year.

Things that I like about this apartment:

- It has a backyard for the dogs
- There is only one other unit (girls) that are living above us
- It has 2 bedrooms
- It has a HUGE dining room with a hutch
- Decently sized living room
- First floor, making it easier to take said dogs out at 5 am in the winter
- At Damen and Division. This is probably the part I am most excited for. We actually found a place in our price range in this area (a suprise to both of us). Being off of Division is awesome...you can walk anywhere and we are just a little bit south of trendy/hipster central (which I don't totally reject) at North/Damen/Milwaukee. Scott is SUPER stoked to live in this area.
- Close to the blue line for Scott
- Close to the highway for me
- TONS of closet space - 2 walk-in closets and a fairly big closet in the main living area
- Busy area but quieter neighborhood street

Scott and I signed the lease yesterday and walked up and down Division for a bit. There are so many cute restaurants and he totally fell in love with this chocolate place Coco Rouge. His drink was this insanely thick chocolate cherry drink that was out of control. We also bought this awesome print from Renegade and I am excited to get it framed and put it up with the other awesome art that we have.

We officially move in November 1, but are probably going to be able to get in there sooner to paint and move the bigger stuff in.

I hate moving and we both have SO MUCH CRAP to move into this place. I am so crazy busy with school that whenever I even think about moving I get overwhelmed. At least I will be much closer to work, as it took me nearly THREE HOURS to get home from Highland Park on Friday. I can't even imagine what traffic would be like when there is snow on the ground.

Time to go to sleep. Peace.

choypunk@cs.com — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:23:52 GMT

SNOW DAY! SNOW DAY! SNOW DAY!

Thus far, spent productively...

I thought it might be a little much

choypunk@cs.com — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:35:18 GMT

My mom is in surgery right now and the waiting room at edward hospital is swarming with senior citizens.

I am hungry and crabby and want to get this show on the road.

it's a wonderful world of learning!

choypunk@cs.com — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 05:34:09 GMT

christmas was fun. zoe and i went over to scott's parent's house in the morning and opened gifts with them. ONE OF MY GIFTS FROM THEM WAS A DVD CAMCORDER. i am very excited. figuring out how to work it is what i am doing tonight.

after that, my family opened presents and ate. scott and i then went to oak park to hang out with his family and play fake trivial pursuit.

after getting home, mark and liz came over and we hung out and exchanged presents. one of mark's presents for the four of us is pretty rad - dinner and tickets to the smoking popes show on saturday. i am excited, as i like that band and i like hanging out with them very much. mark/spitalfield leave for austrailia on the 6th and it seems that just when we are getting used to having him home, he has to go again. at least when he IS home we get some super sweet hang outs in.

scott and i celebrated our NINTH christmas together this year. holy cow, that is almost 10 years. this is both crazy and unbelievable to me. he got me some very thoughtful items and although he had to work in the morning (and all day christmas eve) it was nice spending some time together on christmas.

i just got back from hanging out with people that i have not seen in a very long time.

amy, rachel, dave, and hobart - i miss being around you.

i go back to school one week from today.

finally

choypunk@cs.com — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 03:12:30 GMT

i get the next two and a half weeks off. i plan on doing a lot of shopping, sleeping, cleaning, and going out.

i kind of miss the stress of finals.

choypunk@cs.com — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 03:51:20 GMT

i just saw the prestige.

if you have seen this movie, lets talk, please.

SO GOOD.

Life's a dance

choypunk@cs.com — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 04:02:14 GMT

I am done with school for the week!

Too bad I'm a total sucker and agreed to work at the hotel on my days off. Oh well...at least Hilton pays double and a half on holidays which means I'll be getting paid about $30/hour to sit there and grade papers.

Yesterday I had parent/teacher conferences and it went extremely well. Bethany and I were totally blasting music adding to the already extreme dorm-like atmosphere of our tiny office. We rule.

I don't even want to start thinking about Christmas shopping, or Christmas in general. There are idiots at my school who have been playing holiday music since November 1st.

Today I got free Chipotle for lunch and much Diet Coke at a fantastic price.

Life is looking up.

dancing on the ceiling

choypunk@cs.com — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 13:59:11 GMT

things have been going very well. i am excited to go to school everyday because my classes are awesome, my co-workers are amazing, and the kids are the nicest ever. time is going so quickly and it will seem like only a day between monday and friday. it seems like i never have enough time to do everything that i want to do, but i'd rather have it be like that than the other way around. i feel really damn lucky every single day.

other fun things in my life:

+went wedding dress shopping with laura on monday. it was quite an experience. she looked beautiful in the dresses that she tried on...MY LITTLE SCRILEN IS ALL GROWNSED UP.

+charlie and sweetee are getting haircuts today...finally.

+i am going to have sweet, sweet insurance.

+i am going to see al franken in a week.

+going to a fest at the hideout today in which i will see awesome bands such as man or astro man.

+getting to work out almost everyday.

+having an amazing open house/back to school night in which several parents told both me and my principle that their kids loved my classes.

+saving money.

+multiple 4-day weeks in a row.

+estradasphere in less than a month!

"haha, people will think WE'RE getting married."

choypunk@cs.com — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 15:52:42 GMT

friday i stayed at school kind of late and then met up with laura after she got off of work. we ate at carraba's and the food was good and the atmostphere was as romantic as ever. as usual, our "WE'RE HERE" attitude/presence was in full force. she also asked me a VERY SPECIAL QUESTION. let's just say she better hope i don't show up on her wedding day in a beautiful princess gown and steal the show. all kidding aside though, it was fun fun times and it needs to happen more often.

unfortunately, i am at the hotel right now. but at least i am getting paid to do school work. when i'm not messing around on the internet.

CHICKEN TERIYAKI BOY!

choypunk@cs.com — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:08:28 GMT

you are looking at the new sociology/psychology/u.s. history teacher for st. charles north high school.

ok, i guess you aren't technically looking at me.

pretty much i'm really scared and new teacher orientation is next week.

"that's a baby lion."

choypunk@cs.com — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 01:54:32 GMT

because neither scott nor i had to work until later in the evening, today we decided to go to the zoo. we went to lincoln park zoo and hung out for awhile...it was perfect weather and being by the lake was great. on the way home, we did our evergreen/bubble tea combination and even chinatown didn't seem so bad because of the nice weather.

i can't wait for fall/cool weather.

"you're a chicken. would you like some chicken?"

choypunk@cs.com — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 14:04:43 GMT

my life lately has consisted of: working, interviewing, hanging out, organizing, quality time with my dogs, six feet under, and tanning.

tomorrow is sarah's bridal shower and i have to make so much damn food. good thing i agreed to come in and work for 4 hours before going because I CAN NEVER SAY NO. what a sweet trait.

the fifth season of curb is pretty damn funny.

four students dead

choypunk@cs.com — Fri, 26 May 2006 14:33:14 GMT

FRIDAY (Again)

this past week has been pretty sweet. on sunday i got to hang out with laura after work. we went and got food, went to borders, and just generally hung out. i miss hanging out with her on a regular basis and always have a lot of fun when we are together. hopefully we will be able to hang out on a more consistent/regular basis once i am done with school for the summer.

tuesday was my last day with the seniors. we had parties in all of my classes and watched arrested development.

wednesday was the honors assembly. BORRRRRRIINNNGGG.

last night i went to sleep around 3am and woke up this morning at 5am to bake this breakfast casserole for a BEFORE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT WEDDING SHOWER for this girl getting married. i like how it was supposed to start at 6:45 and i am the only one there with all of my stuff and no one shows up until 7. SWEET PARTY. oh wait, worst idea ever.

i have only my U.S. classes in the morning and then 2 people in each of my afternoon classes. it rules.

tonight i am hanging out with scott's p's + the zimmerman's + lindsay.

final exams start next week.

Clinically Insane

choypunk@cs.com — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 19:43:10 GMT

From one of the funniest websites/books that I have come across in a long time: www.sweetjesusihatebilloreilly.com:

Bill O'Reilly asserted that while "on the left, it's all about the smear," "the propagandists on the right" are "not smear merchants"; "they're not trying to smear anybody." He also said, "[M]aybe I'm naïve," but "when I tune in to [the] programs [of Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and Laura Ingraham], I hear ideology."

Those Who Thirst For More

choypunk@cs.com — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:50:49 GMT

For the next three days, I am getting paid to come to school and get lots of my own work/lesson planning done. I hope to have planned through the rest of the year when I'm done with it. the kids are all act and psae testing and i was lucky enough not to get a proctoring assignment. so that means lots of free time/no homework for me!

yesterday i visited meg and owen right after school. he sure is cute. but what is REALLY cute is how ryan interacts with him. i stayed for a couple of hours and actually didn't feel really sick from the cats until right before i was leaving. i came home, took some allergy medicine and made the mistake of lying down. i fell asleep around 6:30, woke up at 9:30, went to my bed with zoe, and fell back asleep until 11. i then woke up, took a shower and finished watching arrested development, got tucked in and fell back asleep until 6:30...latest sleeping time ever. so essentially, i slept for 11 hours last night and i can't really say i feel a whole lot better today.

i need to do a whole lot of shit before grad school and i'm already starting to get overwhelmed. i am looking at going to USC, UCLA, or UC Berkley. California, here I come! For real...kind of scary but should be exciting when the time gets here. That is, if my math abilities can help me pass the GRE/GMAT...

time to waste hours elseware...

one of the downfalls of teaching so close to home...

choypunk@cs.com — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 03:59:06 GMT

today at jewel i saw two of my most obnoxious students. i had a cart full of alchohol.

i'm sure there will be comments tomorrow.

ain't nothin' like

choypunk@cs.com — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 16:01:49 GMT

it's pretty sweet to have close friends that are complete sneaks. especially when it is in couple form. ESPECIALLY when it is about something really dumb. i've had to deal with this shit before with people/couples and i just thought i was past all that in my life. let's hear is for vague city....more details to come on THIS SWEET DRAMA.

in other news, my sidekick is dead. it just stopped working. i have been waiting 4 months for this day and it finally came yesterday. i was scared, as i got it for free from an online dealer with no warranty. but i waited over an hour at t-mobile and the guy tested it and (yes it is really dead) gave me a loaner and it IS under warranty and i am GETTING A NEW SIDEKICK. best news ever.

i am already tired of dealing with lazy seniors every single day in my classes. it is a struggle to get them to do anything that doesn't involve watching a movie and i can't imagine what it's going to be like when they have merely days left and not 5 weeks.

my mom and sister got home from florida yesterday, tan and happy.

my brother comes home today. i am supposed to work at the hotel but i am blowing them off because i am such a badass.

it is nice outside and since the pool is not open yet, i think i might find a hotel pool to raid with friendszz.

the rundown of this past weekend:

choypunk@cs.com — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 23:42:31 GMT

friday:

- subbed in first grade. spent a good part of the day yelling and lost my voice.

- my mom surprises my family with the new puppy! he is adorable...pictures to come.

- of montreal with laura. they were really good and again, non-smokey metro was pretty sweet.

saturday:

- scott calls at 6:30am to tell me his grandma is not doing well and to meet him at the hospital. by the time we get there, she has died. it was very sad but is whole family at least got to be together and see her one last time.

- family time at scott's p's house.

- spitalfield in dekalb. drunk evan was funny.

sunday:

- help scott's mom go through her mom's house. scott's grandparents had so much stuff.

- dinner with scott's family.

- bayside and the smoking popes with laura, billy, and caleb. they were both good.

- hung out with laura super late last night talking. i miss that a lot and was glad we were able to do it. too bad this time we didn't have any loud bitches banging on the door threating to knock it down.

today:

- didn't go to any school...played with the puppy and worked out...at the hotel now.

oh, life.