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Thursday, May 31, 2007 ( 2:58 AM ) shut up christine 2:54am this message is my own personal mental reminder of this moment so that whenever i read this in the future i will remember nights like this and i will be thankful that i don't have to do this anymore. # Monday, May 28, 2007 ( 11:35 AM ) shut up christine miracles! i completely stand behind Trader Joe's High Fiber Fruit & Nut Multigrain Medley breakfast cereal with high fiber clusters, raisins, cranberries, almonds & pecans that is all # Saturday, May 26, 2007 ( 2:11 PM ) shut up christine yeffrey, i find it oddly comforting knowing that you are such a loser your caliber of loserness is really quite impressive and i think we should be losers for as long as we possibly can it wouldn't be such a bad thing, and if anyone could pull it off, it would be us # Friday, May 25, 2007 ( 7:01 AM ) shut up christine the inspiration for the Long Beach cafe p.s. happy birthday brian ferrer! i love you # Tuesday, May 22, 2007 ( 11:17 AM ) shut up christine as much as i hate this sometimes you just need to put your head down and charge through it. in other news, in a few hours Linda will be leaving for Cambodia to do a summer law internship with a human rights organization. I love my friends! good luck Linda! :) # Saturday, May 19, 2007 ( 11:22 PM ) shut up christine this letter came in the mail today :) Dear Kit, I just want to tell you that I love you very much! I know you are going through a confusing time when you wrote this letter, and you probably still are. But wherever you are now - whatever you have accomplished since writing this - I am so proud of you! I look forward to seeing where you've taken yourself, what you've done, and who you've become. I will love to see how you've changed and grown. I have a lot of hope for you - BIG DREAMS. Please stay hopeful, and keep dreaming, no matter how discouraged you get. Love, Kit Sept. 23, 2006 Walk for Hope # Tuesday, May 15, 2007 ( 11:34 AM ) shut up christine i'm going crazy! life is beautiful # Friday, May 11, 2007 ( 11:00 PM ) shut up christine 17 or 18 years ago my dad took me and my sis to Pic N Save to get a mother's day gift for mi madre and I picked out a ceramic figurine of two little cats hugging each other, it cost like a dollar she still has it sitting on her dresser :) you can never fully pay back your parents for all the things they've done for you # Wednesday, May 09, 2007 ( 7:40 AM ) shut up christine redemption song its not that i hate what i do, i think i just got burnt out i've been hella stressed for like the past three months and its hard justifying a 12+ hour workday when i feel so "eh" ya know? i guess i was kinda sad. the last few months were hard lots of growing pains anyway, yesterday was the last day of one my programs, so we're closing up the site and the kids are getting ready to go home i'm going around explaining the progress report results and i get to this one girl, a sixth grader at the beginning, she tested at the third grade level... then she showed me her final progress report and my mouth dropped i asked her "do you know what this means??" her scores showed her at the tenth grade level!! i was sooo happy for her, her tutor and i made a big deal about it we kept telling her how proud we are, and how smart she is, and look at all the things she can accomplish when she applies herself it was such a huge moment, i even started tearing up and you should have seen her face she was shocked that we were reacting this way, jumping up and down for her i think a lot of these kids never get told that they're smart so the kids leave, and after i'm done cleaning up, I'm walking back to my car and she runs up to me and gives me a humongo hug and that right there is all the justification i need it makes everything worth it i'm not sad anymore and i have all the juice i need to finish out strong # Monday, May 07, 2007 ( 8:09 PM ) shut up christine Sarah McCormick, you have no idea what you just did..... lately i've been having this recurring nightmare, in my dream i wake up and i have that "oh shit i shouldn't have fallen asleep" sick feeling in my stomach except its not really a dream because it happens every morning i think i've been letting it build inside the last few weeks and today i let it get to me i was driving home and i started crying really hard and it's so annoying when you're crying and you don't even know why and you can't stop and the only logical reason i could come up with is that i probably couldn't hold it in anymore. it feels good to let that out okay that was the background story so i get home and there's a package on my desk from Sarah McCormick and inside are two books and a three and a half page letter -- the fact that she sat down to hand-write a three and half page letter-- man, who does that? no one does that anymore the first line reads: "This must seem so very strange to get a letter from an acquaintance out of the blue"... i will spare you the details but in a nutshell the rest of the letter involves me crying like a little bitch in between sentences this is exactly what i needed your timing couldn't have been any more perfect thank you for thinking me worthy of your letter and books p.s. it makes absolute perfect sense p.p.s. you already are # |
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