The Pages Between My Fingers

      I am a reader. I love to read; give me a book and I'll be busy for the next few hours. If you give me a children's book; you have won my heart and I'll be busy for the next few hours. I find myself sometimes just staring at my books in my bookcase lost in the worlds that they provide. Sometimes I'll sit there analyzing the colors of the spines and the script on the cover along with dazing at the cover wishing I could also be there.

    Since I am in a college dorm, I wonder if all my books will unite as one loving pile of pages. I wonder if there is a bookcase that I can put them all in; alphabetical by author's last name. I want to run my hands across the top of the rows and feel the difference in each book; height, thickness, paperback or hardcover.

    What I would desire with my books:

1. More books! (This one is a no-brainer!)
2. A place for all of my books
1. I know some will have to live separately, in my home library and classroom library.
2. Non-fiction! Fiction! The possibilities are endless.
3. Complete all of the series that I have started
4. A system to order them
1. Ooo! Maybe even a list of all of them including ISBN's!

For now, I will just have to suffice with what I have. Including the book that I am currently reading: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse.

Read this: http://themonicabird.com/post/3273155431/date-a-girl-who-reads-date-a-girl-who-spends-her

My Graduation and Thoughts Toward the Future List

List #1
       I am graduating in May of 2011, and I have a lot of things to do by then. Life can get hectic and sometimes I just don't know what to do. I have a million things to do and no time to do them; but alas here I sit whining about all I have to do and not doing them. I have come up with a few questions people will ask me and the answers I will supposedly dole out.

1. What are you going to do now?
1. Hopefully get a good paying job as a teacher somewhere.
2. Where are you going to be?
1. Minnesota, more than likely. I don't want to move back home and mooch of my parents.
3. Will you live at home with your parents?
1. See answer above. I don't want to mooch of my parents.
4. What are you going to do with a degree like that?
1. It's an education degree. I will hope to teach somewhere that my teaching licenses allots for. 
5. Do you have any job offers?
1. Kind of. My cooperating teacher for my first student teaching has offered to get me a job interview.
6. What are you doing over the summer?
1. Working at special needs day camps and like any other recent college grad trying to find a good job.
7. When I was your age...
1. That is not a question...and you are not my age. 
8. Are you excited to pay back the loans?
1. Be honest. No. Heck No. Who is excited to pay back student loans know that the government owns them; sick twisted people? In fact; why don't you loan me $70,000 and then well talk.

Thoughts towards the future? Well..it's kind of as clear as a dense fog. I know that I want to teach but:

1. Where?
2. Who wants to give me a job?
3. How will I get to the school; since I have no car?
4. What will I teach?
5. Where will I live while I teach?

   So that is it for my first post; leaving me with more questions than not. Oh, well I guess that is just what life does to you.