boredom anyone?

so i have chosen to stay in tonight because i have to read a textbook called Beginnings & Beyond. it's not going so well.

i am taking an exam to test out of two credentials courses i need for my job. everyone says this test is really easy - but i am feeling a little overwhelmed by having to "study." which brings me to my point...

thank god i am not in school.

there, i said it. i hate school. i didn't used to hate school, but somewhere between my junior year of high school and my sophomore year of college, i got burnt out. i felt less inspired, less creative, even less motivated. i am so happy that i love my job because i feel like it is really shaping a lot of my personal philosophies on therapy, care and teaching. i had studied inclusion for so long, and now that i am actually involved in it, my experiences seem so much more valuable than reading articles or textbooks. most of my therapeutic rec courses centered around all of these theories on recreation within the confining environments of hospitals or structured schooling programs.

i believe deeply in the idea that "play" can teach learning and heal individuals from physical or emotional wounds. this is a method that may be on its way out because of the demand for children to come to kindergarten already knowing how to write, do math, and have advanced socio-emotional skills. WHAT? it was not like this when i was a kid - i was playing soccer and the ever-so-popular "house" with my sister. i just truly believe that play can teach children anything.

anyway, enough about work, lets talk about beauty. i am intrigued about the big insurge of shitake mushrooms in face creams. there are commercials, magazine articles, ads...the whole nine yards. i might try it out. i have also become obsessed with my Origins ginger body scrub. i have tried many great body scrubs/exfoliators including Clinique Body Exfoliator and The Body Shop Almond Scrub...none of them compare to the ginger. i wasn't originally crazy about the smell of ginger - but it turns out - it's very refreshing.

ok, back to reading about children...