Remembering an email address is an indication that she may be in recovery. Other comments are correct that this may be a runaway bride scenario.

Being a Freegan she has the ability to eat but where could she live free?

If she continues to recover she may eventually return on her on or walk into a police station for help.

The previous episode and disappearance might have been caused by Subliminal Distraction too. Victims do not realize anything is wrong. They believe their actions are part of their normal thought process rather than an ongoing dissociative break and fugue state.

#23...be careful what you wish for! I too was a teaching fellow back in 2001 and nothing has changed. They promise support and then throw you to the wolves. Get your resume together and start applying elsewhere while you can. Check out DCAS and see if you qualify for other city jobs and/or civil service exams. Check out the Mayoral Scholarships when you are employed with the city for your Masters.

And to the young woman missing....call your family! There's life after the NYC Teaching Fellows!

Well, I just hope she's okay. I had many fantasies of running away from my life when I was a 23-year-old teacher. This seems like a technophile's version of Into the Wild.

Katie Holmes went missing?!?!?

@ offbalance:

I'm pretty sure I read it in one of the tabloids, but this was in the wnbc.com article:

Police sources doubted that she was the victim of foul play and noted that she had also dropped out of sight briefly last semester and may have been dissatisfied with her job.

Let me try to link as well:

http://www.wnbc.com/investigations/17423929/detail.html

Hey, TJ - can you post links to some of these articles? I'm curious.

I had her pegged for a suicide, but it could be that she simply had a breakdown of some kind and needs help, but doesn't want to ask for it.

As one of the 100 to 200 first-year NYC Teaching Fellows waiting for a full-time job in the "Teacher Reserve" because of budget-cuts and poor foresight on the Teaching Fellow's part, I can say, "Don't do it!" Several of us moved across the country, or depleted our savings to live off the stipend this summer, and now there are no jobs for us. We get kicked out December 5th if we haven't found anything.

I feel like running away myself, but only if there's a job waiting for me at the other end. ;)

...of course that was gym class, but still! ;P

why is it hard to believe that at age 23 she's a fellow or a teacher? many people graduate college at 20 or 21 leaving 1-2 years for a masters and then guess what? teaching!

i had teachers with tenure that were dumb and young spring chickens that ran circles around them...

Younger teachers in some cases are better than older ones. I had some teachers in their 40s and 50s and even some about to retire who showed they were bored with teaching.

Are you kidding me? There are a lot of 23 year old teachers and some 22. It's not necessarily that you are imparting life knowledge, but you have the capability of teaching a subject to students and often younger teachers have the advantage. I feel like I often relate better to my students because I am younger. On the risk of sounding a little pretentious, I feel like as an at risk youth who grew up to go to an Ivy League University, I do have something important to tell these kids even though I am in my mid 20's.

Trust me, some of the 40 year old teachers have gone batty over the years too...

As for her age, many, many of my friends are teachers and they all started out teaching straight out of college. It's not like they woke up one day in their 40s and decided to do it.

If she was in fact there checking her email, she should at least shoot a note to her mom or a friend saying "hey, I'm fine, call off the search."

As for having a facebook page, she can make it private. The issue teachers run into is being "friends" with their students (inappropriate) and not using the privacy settings which they should.

@RoDogg:

Not every school district is fortunate to have established, veteran teachers. Hannah is an NYC teaching fellow -- in exchange for teaching in a high-need subject area in an inner city school, the program subsidizes her master's degree.

Also, I don't think having merely having a Facebook account means that she's not ready to be a teacher -- it's a content issue.

@ gossipgirl

Blogs, yes. But it would seem funny to see a teacher at her desk checking her myspace while the students are doing their assigned lesson. Usually most teachers have blogs for talking and socializing with students and other teachers. Teacherlingo.com is a great site for teachers, not myspace.

I'm surprised no one has found this, Google her and you will see she is a Freegan!

http://dumpsterdiving.meetup.com/4/members/7172823/

Maybe that can be used to help find her but it also says a lot about her ability to pick up and leave everything behind.

@nycviabos

She was caught doing that today.

@ RoDogg

She does seem young, at 23, to be a school teacher. But I don't see anything wrong with teachers having Facebook. Many of my former high school teachers now have a Facebook.

If she was spotted before she disappeared, Then who saw her in the Apple Store? Did that person know she was missing? If so who was notified? I hope she's ok, this is not one of those 5AM club scene tragedies.

On what day was she caught on tape checking her email? Before or after her reported disappearance?