i'm just an updating fool. i'm sitting in recess detention and while my delinquent students are writing their little hearts out (each of the 5 rules, 10 times each)... i am typing an update. probably because i feel that last journal was a bit disheartened and discouraged. i have been so used to having great mondays i guess, this one kinda fooled ( Read more... )

the floor-buffer man definitely thinks the building is empty. and he thinks nobody is going to step on his beautiful shiny floor later tonight ( Read more... )

now my team teacher doesn't have lung or liver cancer. she has cancer on her lung and in her liver and now in her leg. yeah. i had to type up a letter for students and parents with my team today telling the kids that their science teacher most likely wouldn't be back this year to teach. anyone want to visit carolina med center in charlotte with ( Read more... )

one of my students found an unmarked burned cd in one of the classroom computers and gave it to me to see what was on it. so i waited until after school to find out because i didn't want it to turn out to be some raunchy rap cd that the kids would love ( Read more... )

my desk is relatively clean as a i type this in my classroom.  my classroom.  it really is my home away from home (that latter home being my apartment three miles away)...

i listened to pedro's version of radiohead's "let down" over and over and over probably 10 times last night as i wrote in a "regular" journal.  haha.

so i definitely figured ( Read more... )

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from the things she found in gift shops. -- Kurt Vonnegut

fun fun weekend.. or just friday and saturday. sundays are always sad days because i'm always so anxious about the next week. met up with some unlikely friends, chris of baumer (not on tour at the moment) and a few from the late doc sommers band/brevada... (chad, christian and josh i think?) weird because christian is barry's roommate!!! and i ( Read more... )

i just purchased every single pedro cd available on their website. no more damn scratched burned cds from david to listen to. i think i might actually teach my cat to catch them in his mouth like a frisbee now...

"strange how hard it rains now, rows and rows of big dark clouds but i'm holding on underneath this shroud of rain." --p. griffin ( Read more... )

it just so happens that the janitor kicked me out last night at 6:55... and then i went home and played with trout, but he is sometimes not very fun because he scratches and plays rough :(