People With High School Mentality Suck

Sigh- I have not posted here in awhile. Probably because I have not felt the need to rant like I do right now. One thing I was not suspecting is that my program is really clique-y. Wow. For some reason, the girl I am paired with for student teaching and her friend do not like me. Normally I do not care when people do not like me because that is life- sometimes people just do not get along with me and I am cool with that. When one adult does not really like another adult, you still act civil though, especially when you have to work together. I'm wondering if it is something I have done with sharing our mentor teacher? If so, I'd love for her to talk to me, rather than just act cold.

I guess it just pisses me off that she can act so high school. I mean I have had people IN HIGH SCHOOL do what she is doing with me. I know that was a really long time ago for me (and probably was not for her). But in high school at least the person giving me the cold shoulder/ potentially turning other people that were previously civil to me, away from me had good reason to. At least there were fights that I could say- hey I was kind of a bitch so it makes sense that person X is being passive aggressive toward me. Maybe that is just her personality. If so- she has this too cool for school attitude that is really only acceptable when you are in High School.

I really could not care less if she were my friend or not. I mean I'm a good 5 years older than her and I have lots of friends. I even have friends in the program. Some of my friends are her friends so I wish she would suck up whatever grudge she has against me, act civil so that we can work together in peace for the next two weeks. She may not like me, but I really hate her attitude. Not her as a person, because I think if she got past whatever it is she has against me, she's probably like me. I'm going to try and be the bigger person and kill her with kindness. I'll keep to myself, because that seems to be what she wants. Which ultimately means I am going to "hang out" with the other teachers more. Part of me thinks she might be jealous or have trouble sharing. Or maybe it is that I am trying to befriend the teachers... I'm not trying to suck up, but honestly there is no point in staying in "the student teacher" posse, since they cannot give me reference letters. Maybe I am being too eager, but quite honestly, is that not what you are supposed to be when you are trying to impress people?

Sigh- I really should not worry about this until next week...

Stumble Upon

My friend was telling me about this website called Stumble Upon. and how she loved it so I thought I would give it a try. Turns out it is pretty much as addictive as Facebook Stalking was when I first got Facebook, and probably is something that I wouldn't get sick of as fast. How it works is you check some boxes with your interests, and click a button to stumble and off you go to websites that other people with your same interests liked. So far it has only brought me to one site I haven't liked. I really enjoyed this one on geeks. And this was a pretty good music site.

I've pretty much found yet another way to waste time on the interweb. Great.

State: Procrastinatory
Song: One-A- Illscarlett

NDP for the Win- well at least in my riding

Election results are pretty much in. While the Conservatives have taken the minority and had an overall gain in seats they lost one seat in their Stronghold: Alberta. This loss happened to be in my riding. For the first time in my voting career I have helped elect someone to the federal government. As of right now, one poll left to report, Linda Duncan of the NDP has won a seat in Alberta.

My roommate and I sat around the TV tonight, watching the election results as intently as others would a sports game final or the 100m dash final at the Olympics. I'm pretty sure I would have made M. Poirier proud tonight with the amount of enthusiasm I watched this election with. I can't say that I have ever felt this excited before. Every other election I have voted in my candidates have lost by so much you could really only call my vote a protest vote. Politics are much more exciting when there is some uncertainty.I had to drink a sleepytime tea to calm myself down and I am still awake, albeit, calmer than before.

I'm off to bed because waiting for this last poll to come in is agonizing. I hope that when I wake up and check the results tomorrow I won't be disappointed and find that Linda Duncan winning was all a dream. I'm really hoping that I'll living in the solitary spot of orange in a sea of blue.


Update 00:28 MT- 223/223 Polls reporting: Linda Duncan 20,076 Rahim Jaffer 19,634. NDP wins by 442.

State: Excited!
Song:The Canadian Dream- Sam Roberts.

Twilight Widget because I am Obsessed!