Update!

So it's been a really long time since my last post, but alas, I was mostly without internet access this summer due to camp and reason yaadeedah and whoopdeeloop. However, I am now in Maryland, setting up my new apartment with some new furniture, dishes, and the like (yaaaay financial obligations...) along with getting ready for school starting in a week and teacher training starting Monday.

"That's quite a whirlwind of events, Abby," you must be saying. Well, yes, yes it is... I interviewed for this job on Tuesday afternoon and within 10 minutes had been offered the position, accepted, and was packing to leave. My mom was able to come out with me (for which I am sooo grateful!) and we left Wednesday afternoon and arrived here Thursday. I spent about 5 hours doing paperwork on Friday and then went and saw this apartment, got it, and moved in this morning! It's crazy, but now that I have a place to stay, have met a few people, know my way around at least a little bit, and am becoming more organized by the minute, my mind is calming down and I am becoming slightly more confident about my job. I hope I can be a great teacher!

It's funny cause it's true....

It's true... and therefore funny. It's funny, cause it's true. from Behind the Scenes on Vimeo.

Mosaic

Well, I think mosaics are cool anyway and I don't generally pass on silly surveys and such, but I thought this was a cool project. Below, you can see the questions and above, my photographic answers. Try and figure out what they were... intriguing... Shout-out thanks go to Alicia whose artistic spirit both inspires me and makes me jealous.

Mosaic Rules:
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into
Flickr Search (http://www.flickr.com/).
b. Using ONLY the first page, pick
an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into Mosaic
Maker. Change rows to 3 and columns to 3 (http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/mosaic.php).

The Questions:
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite
food?
3. What is your favorite color?
4. Favorite drink?
5. Dream
vacation?
6. Favorite hobby?
7. What you want to be when you grow
up?
8. What do you love the most in life?
9. One word to describe
you?

Force is strong for Jedi police

Yes, you read right, the Jedi police. I did a double-take as well when I first saw that. Almost 390,000 people in the 2001 Census of England and Wales listed their official religion as "Jedi: Follower of the Force."

Here's the intriguing story from the BBC:

Eight police officers serving with Scotland's largest force listed their official religion as Jedi in voluntary diversity forms, it has emerged.

Strathclyde Police said the officers and two of its civilian staff claimed to follow the faith, which features in the Star Wars movies.

The details were obtained in a Freedom of Information request by Jane's Police Review.

Strathclyde was the only force in the UK to admit it had Jedi officers.

In the Star Wars films, Jedi Knights such as Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda use the Force to battle the evil Darth Vader, who has strayed to the dark side.

Jane's Police Review editor Chris Herbert, who requested the information, said: "The Force appears to be strong in Strathclyde Police with their Jedi police officers and staff.

"Far from living a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, some members of the noble Jedi order have now chosen Glasgow and its surrounding streets as their home."

Provided voluntarily

A spokeswoman for Strathclyde Police confirmed: "At the time of the request, 10 (eight police officers and two police staff) had recorded their religion as Jedi."

She added that the force monitored "six strands of diversity" - age, disability, gender, race religion and belief, and sexual orientation.

The force said the information was provided voluntarily and securely stored.

About 390,000 people listed their religion as Jedi in the 2001 Census for England and Wales. In Scotland the figure was a reported 14,000.

The Office for National Statistics did not recognise it as a separate category, and incorporated followers of Jedi with the atheists.

Last year, brothers Barney and Daniel Jones founded the UK Church of the Jedi - which offered sermons on the Force, light sabre training, and meditation techniques.

Strathclyde Police employs 8,200 police officers and 2,800 civilian staff.

Lemme see you shake your tailfeather....

And here is a bird that should maybe go on DWTS he has so much rhythm!

Thanks go out to my mom for sending this great video on to me.