After several months of reading Claire's blog in which she has beautifully detailed the first five months of my niece Savannah's life, I've decided to begin this blog as I enter a new, important phase in my life. Right now, I am in my second six weeks of student teaching 7th grade English at Eastwood Middle School. In a little over three months, I will be a college graduate (And looking for a job! Hire me? I can teach your children how to parse poems!). And most excitedly, in less than five months, I will be married to my best friend, Robert Allen Crowl. After the wedding on July 11, Gus the cat and I will pack it up and move to Houston to experience newlywed life and city life. So, with all of the big events happening in the next few months, I figure a blog is a more convenient mode of keeping everyone updated and myself sane.

In this blog, you can expect to find not only the day to day minutiae of the life of a student teacher/ fiance/ job seeker, but also musings on some of my favorite topics. They may be of no interest to anyone but Amy (that's me!) but I'm sure at some point I will want to blog about how much I adore Radiohead, funny things that happen in class, politics, or Gus the cat.

Speaking of which, Gus the cat is laying on some tissue paper asleep. I'm about to go to sleep myself!