The Lists that Govern my Life

If we were to write a children's book about my yesterday, we would call it something like  Claire and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.  Except that we would probably run into some copyright infringement problems, so here are some other potential titles: The Long Journey Home All Tired Out Life Changes Part 6 Yesterday's Cover Picture Why God Gave Us Swear Words   I was dreading yesterday before it happened because yesterday was the day I left Provo. Forever. Well, forever meaning the foreseeable future. Because grad school in Indiana. Every time I've left Provo since August 2011, I knew I was coming back. I've always had a a handful boxes waiting for me in someone's house during my short absences and week by week, Provo became my home. *insert nostalgic music* Admittedly, that took a while.  And if not for this past year, I don't know if I would have felt this sense of home as strongly. But as I drove home yesterday and r...

Things people never say about me: 1. Claire definitely knows her stuff when it comes to computer programming. She basically built the internet.  2. Claire is a really good dancer. She should do Zumba in front of people more often.  3. Claire is an awesome teacher for young kids--she can connect and manage little people so well. And thus we shall focus on this last point, for I've spent January through right now trying out teaching German at a K-9 charter school in the afternoons before heading off to pursue a PhD in German Studies (so I can teach at a university in the far distant future).  If we backtrack a little, we can remember that I taught German at BYU and loved it.  I am, of course,  wildly entertaining in my passion for German and relatively insightful as a teacher; generally, I seemed to convince my university students of this as well. Or perhaps they merely convinced me of this but regardless we all had fun together. And...