Guess I'm Next...

Hi alll! Soooo im still in oneonta obviously, doing nothing exciting! Block is all that everyone told me it was going to be. aka HELL! March is going to be the worst month yet, because we start participation march 30th, so everything else has to be handed in before then. Just got back from Spring Break #1 and I had strep throat the whole time, so that was pretty miserable. Feeling better now though. And already feeling stressed out again just from one class today. I hopefully managed to work the system and if everything goes as planned I will be "walking" in the May ceremony, and just get my diploma in dec. after student teaching. So that will be nice to have, instead of graduating in 2ft of snow. ohhh oneonta! (((11 weeks and countingggggg)))

Personal Life: I dont have one! but the nasty guy in the apt. above me is still having lots of sex! hahah. It's oneonta so i dont expect much, however i also dont go out that often so i dont help myself much either. Night life sucks even more now here, and somehow its even colder!
I miss you all, thats for sure.. i pass by our house at least 3 times a week and i get sad each and every time! It takes everything i have not to pull into the driveway expecting you all to be there! (tear!) When it starts to get warmer i cant imagine how much im gonna crave a porch bbq!

Thats all for now, since i really have nothing new going on!
Love you all,
Amy
(muchdick ---> just for you em!)

p.s. there has been dicussion in the muchnick household on getting a puppy this summer!!!! couldnt be more excited!

My life! (not too exciting!)

Hello loves of my life! I also agree with the cornyness of this but....i think its a great idea and will hopefully be very effective! So now's that I've been yelled at by hope for not blogging I figured it was time to fill you all in on my life as well lol. Roberto and I are still loving our apartment, new jersey, AND (most importantly) living together! I am STILL looking for a teaching job, no luck at all yet! The more I talk to teachers I know they all tell me "times are rough, even tenored teachers are getting laid off so you just have to wait it out"-this is not at allll what I want to hear! But I'm still sending out resumes all the time. I'm also still working at Ann Taylor in the mean time. Not exactly a job that requires a 4 year degree but it pays the bills! I love the people I work with and I have a lot of fun. This morning in fact I had work at 6am but it was fun stuff. I help out with a lot of the visual stuff so I have fun pretending to be a Lauren Conrad lol. It makes me want a fashion degree, maybe I would have a job if i had just switched majors dammit! lo jk.

I still haven't started my master's, although I'm dying to! The program I'm going to do requires you to have 1 year experience before you can apply so clearly I need a teaching job first. I'm going to go for Literacy and will come out as a certified literacy coach/reading specialist (which is a whole other job in schools, so if i wanted to be a school's reading specialist or literacy coach I could always do that instead of just being a regular elementary teacher). So once I get a job I can apply to grad school.

I guess that is about it for now. Oh-I was talking to Danny the other day and he mentioned us all trying to go up to school the weekend of the fashion show-thoughts? I'm not sure when this is but I will keep you all posted!!

PS Bella-Boo says she misses all her other mommas!


Love Alwayssssss....Justine aka Hust aka Husty-La-Roo

Bean-town baby!

I second the remarks of Ember, in that despite how "gay" this may be I think it is a tremendously efficient way to stay in the know with one another!

Ember, its great to hear the goings on in your life. I'd like some more details about James if you don't mind sharing. Also I'm so happy you're sharing our ridiculous videos we used to fill some of the rarely quiet moments of 31 Cherry. I still say when Dave gets famous we use the footage as leverage to mooch off his new found celebrity. Congrats on your pseudo marathon running, I'm very impressed! I'm scheduled to run two 10ks this summer, one in Utica (the Boilermaker) and another along the shore line in Maine. Your classes sound great too, far beyond my level of understand but interesting none the less! 

As for me... I suppose creating this thing and only leaving a welcome message defeats the purpose of it, so I'll dish a little about my life. I'm currently in my second semester of school at BU and am loving it more and more everyday. I'm taking four classes this semester and putting in about 20 hours a week at my internship. So far my classes are pretty difficult, but very interesting. I'm learning a lot both in my classes and through hand on experience at my internship. My internship is at a middle school in Charlestown, which is part of the Boston Public Schools. It's a great experience, really challenging and can be like a war zone at time but again I'm learning so much. The school is really diverse and has some great programs for the kids to participate in including sports, theatre arts, and dance classes. I've gotten to know a lot of the kids in the school through helping out with different things all over the school like cheerleading and the school play. The kids seem to like me, which is a pretty big deal in my book given how "lovely" middle schoolers can be. The kids come from all over the city and have some pretty tough back grounds and home lives that provides for a lot of issues through individual and group counseling. Right off the bat I began working with kids for individual counseling, and see them once a week. I think I've made some good progress with the kids and I've seen some really positive change in a lot of them. I've also started to work with students in a group setting, which presents its own set of unique challenges but so far so good. The 7th grade girls I work with are pretty entertaining, we picked a mix of some of the girls who had been involved in the most "drama" in the school so managing the group dynamic has been interesting but they are all really good natured girls who just get a little too boy crazy at times.

Similar to Ember, a social life is somewhat limited given my schedule but I have made some good fiend with the girls in my classes. There are a lot of things to do in the city so I've been trying to explore as much as possible when I can. Thank to a lovely graduation gift from my Oma "The Cheap Bastard's Guide to Boston", I've found some pretty cool restaurants and things to do without going completely belly up. I have been bringing in a little bit of extra money from babysitting for a family with a little boy just under a year. He's not quite as cute as Jack, but he's alright. I'm taking yoga now too, which I love and it's completely changed my idea of what working out should be but I really enjoy it. 

Well I think that's all for now. I look forward to hearing about everyone's everything!

Love always...

Hope aka HEW aka Hef

 

The midwest will never be cool

I think this is officially the gayest thing the "cherry street girls" have ever done. That being said (because it is my role to make fun of everything corny we do) I think this is a wicked good idea. I feel like I'm always like "Hmm, I wonder what's new in the roommates' lives" but never really have the time to find out. Lately, everyone has been asking when you guys plan to visit as I've been sharing so many stories... also, Katrina found all the videos I have on my computer including Hope and I's sumo match and Bohemian Raphsody as performed by Katie, Hope and Dave... I'm running a marathon in Chicago March 4th (cough perfect time to come visit cough) and by marathon I mean 10k, nothing too serious. So I guess the point of this is to update right? Okay, here is my life:

I take 1 class: Genomic Analysis of the Insect, it is rediculously hard and the professor is from South Africa so I often have trouble understanding him though I do understand I wish him to impregnate me with both knowledge and a baby. Another professor of mine just got a shout out on the Colbert Report, Gene Robinson. You should youtube the clip, its funny.
I teach Integrative Biology 103, 2 lab sections 6 hours a week. It's pretty easy and I love it.
I spend about 30 hours a week in a laboratory that strongly resembles the Goulag. I'm the only lab member under 30 there and I work under Moussellini.... Work is tedius but I LOVE my thesis, the project is awesome, nothing like anything thats been done before. My advisor looks like a viking.

Personal life: don't really have time for one. I broke up with James but I'm pretty sure we're getting back to being friends which is awesome. My friends are rediculous, they love to drink and dance so thats all I do on the weekends. I'm back in the gym which means I stopped sleeping but its ok. I'm done now.
Love and miss you all, I hope to see rediculously long updates like this from everyone.
Emberoni aka the one that was never home.

Testing Testing 1,2,3

Hello all! Just wanted to test this out and see how it works before THIS gets blocked at work too. Yes, my facebooking at work has concluded until I find out how to unblock it from my secret source!

This is all for now because I actually have to work today...go figure :(

Miss you all !

PS one of my colleagues just brought in a transvestite for an interview and had no idea. She was like "I thought it's voice sounded deep on the phone!!" Highlight of my day possibly.

Welcome Ladies

Hi Girls!

So while conversing with Katherine this morning we stubbled upon the realization that we had not seen each other in over 4 months. We then quickly concluded that we had not seen Ember in over 7 months. Although there has been some brief visiting between us all post graduation, it is clear that with our lives continually changing it is becoming more and more difficult to arrange get-togethers. With that some what depressing realization a though arose! Why not become some of those annoying people who constantly blog their thoughts, passions, and feelings? Sounds fun huh? Well perhaps a little less intense and far less taxing we decided to create a universal blog for the "Cherry Girls". This will allow us to all share a small thread of one another's lives and therefore with hope stay a little more connected. Now please do not feel pressured  to constantly blogging or look at this as something we have to do, but more of a fun way for us to check in, share new and exciting events, and anything else we've got on our minds.

I'll e-mail everyone the username and password, along with directions on how to use. 

Hope everyone is well! 

Love and miss you mucho...

Hope