my life (in a nutshell)

I'm pretty sure that summer has been set on fast forward. It seems like yesterday that I was waiting for wedding invitations and now those weddings are here! My friends David and Abbie are getting married next weekend on the 10th, and Jon/Traci, Ashlee/Tony's are the weekend of the 30th.

My 2nd session of school is coming to an end also. I don't understand, but love, how fast these summer sessions can be. I've got 2 more papers and one presentation! WOOHOO.

For the last 8 years of my life I have been attending NASC workshop. Now that I am a 5th year staffer, I realize how important this organization is to me. It's not just "I go to camp 1 week a year and have fun!" It's more like "I prepare all year to throw together an amazing week for middle and high school students to become better leaders!"

Another short story (man this blog is full of them today). So since high school, we (people in general if you go to college) have been warned to not use Wikipedia as a source. DUH. It is obviously not reliable as anyone can change the definition of anything. SO in my SPED 401B/801B (grad studies) class there were 4, I repeat 4 students who were in deep trouble in my class. How awful is that? It's more embarrassing than anything. Why in the world would you need to copy and paste a whole Wikipedia site page on autism with the pictures/graphs STILL in it? I mean really? What about taking 3 different journal articles and taking out the references and using it as your own paper? That's ridiculous let alone huge huge HUGE plagiarism. That's the excitement in school right now..

I started my Lincoln Public Schools application. Talk about nerve wracking! I actually have to fill out an application for a big kid job. I don't thin it's going to hit me until I have to actually interview for a position. YIKES! I will keep ya posted on how it's going. I will be applying to Lincoln Public, Bellevue Public, Papillion, Gretna and Elkhorn. Maybe Plattsmouth, but that is definitely a last resort...

High school volleyball camps start next week. It's so exciting to think about. I don't know if I can make it out to Waverly at all, but I'm sure gunna try. It is my team to get to know.. I just don't have time with the last week of the 1st summer session and work. Yuck. The week after that is the Pius camp. I have been lucky enough to meet Jake Moore, only one of the best high school volleyball coaches in the United States. I'm not even exaggerating. He won the 2008 prepvolleyball.com National Coach of the Year award. Like, hello, awesome. Anyways.. let's get back on track. I met him through some unfortunate negative events regarding the club Nebraska Juniors and my club Nebraska Volleyball Academy. Needless to say, I did not like this man. He was rude and arrogant. I have since met with him at various other volleyball functions and Jake actually has a class next to mine in the mornings. It's fun to see him and just to see a familiar face at all. I respect him greatly and have forgotten about our little rumble in the jungle. It's all good. Where is this going? Oh yeah! So I asked Jake if I could observe his varsity camp and he said I was more than welcome to do so. Which is friggen AMAZING and almost a dream come true. I love volleyball. I have lived for the sport since I was introduced to it in 1995. I was a young girl seeing the Nebraska Volleyball team qualify to move on in the NCAA tournament. They ended up playing for their first National Championship that same season. Yup, it was love at first sight.

Ahhhh. the nutshell is ALMOST full. One more story, you might enjoy.

Work. Oh Starbucks. I love this company, I do. But not once in my life have I ever encountered the most creepy customers. Never in my life have I actually been scared to come to work. I won't go into details, but we have had males come in and ask 'red flag' questions. We have also had a customer come in who wrote a story about shooting a barista in the head through the drive thru. Uh yeah. What?


As you can see, that has been my life (in a nutshell).