"This, then, is the dread that seems to lie beneath the fear of equalizing. Equity is seen as dispossession. Local autonomy is seen as liberty - even if the poverty of those in nearby cities robs them of all meaningful autonomy by narrowing their choices to the meanest and the shabbiest of options. In this way, defendants in these cases seem to ( Read more... )

I have only seven more days of actual Macbeth instruction. That makes me feel much better. Like it's a time crunch. Sometimes I feel like I'm getting sucked into a black hole. You know, how you can see your feet drifting off into the distance, and the faster you go the more time slows down, until you're just stuck forever right on the verge of ( Read more... )

So I'm going to go drive my parents and sisters to go on a cruise, but the ship was delayed for a search and rescue mission. Apparently these men in their 50s and 60s were stranded when their sailboat broke out in the middle of nowhere, and this cruise liner had to go pick them up. I have to wait now. And I grow weary of waiting.

Tom says I should tell you about the wardrobe. Sheila took me shopping and now I look stylin. It's true what they say, apparel the man doth make. Everyone says that. And it's true. Everyone is very impressed. Of course, now it looks like instead of going to the doctor that I went to a day spa. Why can't it be both? I can be sick and hot at ( Read more... )

So I got a haircut. Now I look like a marine. Or a space monkey with a small faux hawk. It's wicked short. It's the kind of haircut that makes me want to lift weights and to get a job driving a tank ( Read more... )

So I called out sick from work last night so that I could go to the doctor today, and my principal said, "Bring back a doctor's note." And I don't know how to take that. Does he mean that he just wants to have all his ducks in a row, and he doesn't want to show favoritism by asking one teacher for a note when he suspects they're lying and not ( Read more... )

I'm about to leave to go to this family reunion in Baltimore. I get to take a day off of work, which is nice ( Read more... )

It's about to be May. I am tired, but I'm having trouble going to sleep. I just watched the movie Jarhead, which was exactly what I needed. I have been feeling disconnected from people, and it helped. I like to know that it really is a universal feeling to be like that. Or if it's not universal, it's certainly shared between me and that author ( Read more... )

I've had a pretty stressful few days lately. I had to deal with some crazy stuff at school. Friday was both really good and really bad. Some shit went down with kids, and I handled it well, but I wish it hadn't happened ( Read more... )

I know I'm in trouble in my class when I'm like, "Oh good god, I don't want to teach this lesson..." I'm kinda stuck in it, but I should have finished this whole unit before Spring Break. Oh well. I guess it's a matter of principle now to finish it ( Read more... )