Monthly Archives: February 2018

“What Would You Say You Do Here?”

The J: Office Space, arguably one of the best movies of the 90s, which says quite a bit. One side note, I’ve been told recently that I look like Ron Livingston. I don’t see it, but it’s out there and he isn’t a bad looking man so I’ll take it. On an unrelated tangent I’m only a week late writing this (I really was when I started writing it in September). Also the photos are mostly unrelated to this post. In an effort to ameliorate some anxiety and struggles coming from challenges and deadlines this post is only going to be the fun and successful life events that have happened here. This post isn’t meant to be me prevaricating my own failings and challenges here. I will do that in a later post but it may very well be tortuous and today it would be perfunctory. And so ends my GRE vocabulary usage. Since this blog post was started I have taken, done satisfactory enough on the GRE, and applied to graduate school. 

Due to time constraints, we will only go over one event that we have done here. It was a productive and nice finale to the 2017 school year.

First is our successful and surprisingly well attended spelling bee competition that was hastily cobbled together towards the end of the last school year. My wonderful counterpart (the Albanian I work with) had the alacrity to do a spelling bee competition between the four middle schools in town. However, there were a few things that needed to be taken care of before this activity could happen: finding a place to do the spelling bee, getting other schools on board, deciding on the logistics of the competition, narrowing down competitors, and providing the ever important rewards. All of these had a basic story arc of “oh shit what are we going to do” then let’s talk to somebody and then bug them again, followed by great things should work out, and finally culminating in wow that was pretty awesome. Continue reading “What Would You Say You Do Here?”