first off, i added a new feature to my journal. if you notice, at the end of every entry is a link that allows you to comment on my entries. make use of this feature. i'm excited about hearing what you have to say :)

it has been a good week for me at work. my student had a good day at school on tuesday. after school, we headed over to waltham to her gym class. she was so happy the entire day. nothing significant happened at school yesterday...i was scheduled to run the therapy session in the afternoon. this went exceptionally well.

see...in ABA therapy, the student earns pennies for correct responses until s/he has earned all 6/8 (with me). after earning all the pennies, he/she earns a token (1 out of 3 for me) and a reinforcer for a couple minutes. reinforcers are often small toys like gooze or a can of worms. then the therapist takes away the reinforcer and has the student earn the pennies again. another token is issued upon completion of each penny trial. once all three tokens are earned the student is allowed to watch a video (or other super-reinforcing toy). this process is repeated for a two hour session (with me).

well, yesterday during therapy, my student was VERY excited about earning pennies. she asked if she could clean up the reinforcer and earn it again. i was so shocked by this that i did not know what to do. the session was so amazing. she was very into completing the programs. to let you know how odd this was, under normal circumstances, my student might throw a tantrum when asked to clean up the reinforcer. hm...

kate and i have made plans for friday night. i got us tickets to the blue man group. it'll be my third time seeing them, but i'm still really excited about it for a few reasons. first, our seats are in the middle of the fifth row--so close that we have to wear ponchos to ensure that our clothes do not get paint on them. secondly, the blue man group is amazing. most importantly though, i know kate is going to love the show...and to share the experience with her will give me a feeling of sheer happiness. too bad kate reads my entries :)...i have more to say, but i don't want to make the moment any less than is attainable....

today was easy at school. we watched pinocchio for a third of the time i was there--no prompting needed. linda and christina asked me to go with them to a pool party w/some others from work tonight, but i got lazy and decided not to go. otherwise, today i have been having lots of fun by myself. (kate...i'm wishing i had saved our conversation from earlier about the shower) but i will write about it now...

i got in the shower this afternoon after my nap...haha. i left the door to the bathroom open because i wanted to hear my snoop dogg that was playing in my room. so, when i was finished doing everything i had to do in the shower i just started dancing. i was breaking it down! for a solid five minutes. and i didn't even realize it. ahah...when i came to this realization, i about fell over laughing. haha...things like this have been happening to me all day today. i'm finding humor in everything. perhaps this is a sign of true happiness with my life at present? i think so....

yesterday i found a great site!! here it is...the rap dictionary. thanks to this site, my roomate, rosilyn, and i will have great topics for our radio show next year at school. i guess i've been browsing the net a lot lately. i took a lot of tests at the spark...

purity test: 37% pure

gender test: definately female

gay test: 60% gay

sex test: will sleep with 12 more people in my lifetime (7 female, 5 male--the male part being complete bullshit) haha

well my plans for the remainder of the night are undetermined. so i'm off to the heat of my apartment to waste time.