fun not fun

my left foot, knee, and hip hurt so much already i wonder how i'll survive a week of convention! i have a bad feeling most of my money will be spent in taxi rides and room service :(

i went to an oepp class today to distribute my last questionnaires and two things happened: 1) i realized that my throat is hurting again when i speak in front of people, the way it did 5 years ago when i started teaching english. i noticed it a few times in the last weeks and thought it was just stress but it doesn't go away... but neither does stress, so maybe it IS stress... at any rate, it's painful and very unpractical! good thing i don't have to present anything at tesol. 2) at the end of my (painful) little speech about my reseach, the class teacher asked her students if they could guess where i'm from, since usually most people and especially international students are unable to guess i'm not a native english speaker. one student answered that i had french eyes... and then another said i looked like sophie marceau so i must be french. huhuh!

i turned in the grant proposal today... i need it desperatly because it looks like i won't have a job this summer, so say a little prayer or knock on wood or something...