Dreaming of Wishing Wells

I've been thinking about lots of things I want to write about in here lately, but whenever I have free time, I've been trying to work on my grad school applications and essays. Or doing quizzes on Sporcle . Which may not be the most productive use of my time, but at least it has replaced Farmville. I'm pretty sure that's a good thing. Now if only I could stop wasting time on Facebook, I'd be in business. Since I wrote last, we had another short week of school because of the Urban Promise banquet and first quarter conferences. The banquet was different this year, because instead of having a keynote speaker, the program was put on by the campers, StreetLeaders, and volunteers. UrbanPromise Camden has been doing their banquet like that for years, and now I totally see why. It definitely makes sense. I feel like our guests left with a lot more of an understanding of what Urban Promise is about and how it's an agent of change in people's lives and what some of th...

I'm taking a break from grad school application stuff because my brain can't handle it anymore! My little grad school train is moving on down the tracks, which is good I guess. I've started applications and am going to two open houses this week. I still need to update my sadly out of date resume, write my statement of purpose (and then tweak it for each program I'm applying to), and ask people to write recommendations. I always hate doing that. Plus, it's hard cause the schools want mostly academic references, and although I've kept in touch with professors a little bit because of recruiting for Urban Promise, I haven't talked to them that much. And the ones who initially wrote me recommendations for teaching jobs (which I never even got to use because Urban Promise didn't need to see any of that kind of stuff) are the ones I've talked to the least! During my little application break, I'm watching an episode of Teach: Tony Danza on Hulu. This sh...