Everyone who likes interesting things, but Than in particular, needs to go to youtube and look up Derren Brown. If you know of this guy already, why didn't you tell me about him earlier? I stumbled onto his show by mistake. Check out the russian scam, anything that says trick or treat, the paper money one, the dog track one, the casino ones, and ( Read more... )

I'm freaking out!! This is my second night spent just sitting around surfing the internet with nothing to do. All of my friends are out of town or not wanting to hang out with me. And I have a serious case of the stir crazies. I need to go out to a party or stab and eat a hobo or something. None of my usual hang-out people are around. If you' ( Read more... )

Hey everyone. I saw this comedian, and he was awesome. I sent him an email saying I love his tattoo that he got as a young man of a gay warlock. And he said I should tell all my friends about him so that he can become famous. So go to his website and love him, and then tell all of your friends! www.tompapa.com

So it's the summer, so I have a lot of time to post stuff. I don't really have anything to do this summer. I'm writing some projects for this educational company in Oregon that is paying me to do stuff I'd have to do anyway. So that's cool. Scam ya later, Oregon ( Read more... )

So Alex told me that I neeed to update my blog. So here it is. I'll give you all the short version. I quit my stupid job at my stupid school, and now I'm starting another new school called the Lyons Community School in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and we'll see if that works out any better. The people there are smart. I am still living with Adam. ( Read more... )

One of my kids was murdered by his mother's boyfriend. The boyfriend killed the mother, my student, and the sister. Fucked up. I don't even know what to think.

Three day weekends bore me. I want to get back in my classroom with something new to teach children. I had this instructional specialist come in to assess one of my kids' learning disabilities, and she had some really good ideas. About him and about how I run things in general. I love when people know what they're talking about. Her whole ( Read more... )

Last night I woke up at 3:00. About to puke. I paced and held it down. I was up till a bit after 4:00. Now I have kids in my room. It's twelve hours later, and I want to go home, but I'm the advisor for the stupid games club. I like some of these kids, but I'm going to murder the others.

I am mostly done with school. Woooooooo! I just have eight more days. And they're all easy. Half days, tutoring sessions, performances, and advisory groups. A lot of my kids have said they're not coming to school anymore, because most schools don't have to. Most schools give Regents exams this week. We don't, so we have to have school. But ( Read more... )

Two of my kids are going on a date tonight. They are adorable. They have each been coming to me for advice on how to deal with the opposite sex, and finally the girl had gotten tired of the boy stalling about whether he was going to just come out and ask her. So she yelled at him across the room at the end of the day, "Brandon! You and I have ( Read more... )