Or earlier. I've been going to bed way too late for not really doing much as far as GOING OUT ( Read more... )

So an airforce of paper airplanes with prickly tips was launched at my face at the end of second period. The office doesn't seem to care. I told them about it and they aren't doing anything ( Read more... )

Myspace is where I usually do my blogging. Not that I'm a serious, or even very good, blogger. However, on all LAUSD machines, Myspace is blocked and I cannot blog during the daytime. About 5 minutes ago, I figured out that Livejournal isn't blocked. I guess my writing will be done on Livejournal for now ( Read more... )

Ernest came over last night with his 4-track and we laid out some practice guitars and vocals for my musical project. Ernest drank 3 beers, 2 shots of tequila, a white russian and a screwdriver ( Read more... )

...other than me of course ( Read more... )

I bit the bullet and I went to a Middle School today. This one was in East Los Angeles, Right off Cesar Chavez Avenue. It was just as hard as I remember last Thursday ( Read more... )

So they called me in to a high school today which was about 3 miles from home, in the heart of East Los Angeles. It was 9th and 10th grade English. Oh hell, they were so much better than the Middle School kids that I had last week. 1st period was even an honors class ( Read more... )

So they called me this morning for 3 different assignments. All of them were middle schools in some pretty faraway areas, Like Watts ( Read more... )

Ok, so after waiting and waiting to actually start substitute teaching, they finally call me at 6:15am for a Middle School about 3 blocks from my house. English to 7th and 8th graders. Holy Hell. It was so fucking hard. Way harder than I expected. Classroom management, my ass. More like - Combat ( Read more... )

Benner played a pretty good show. From where I was standing on stage, we always sound like crap. There's a huge guitar amp blaring in my ear. I can never hear vocals and Stef's bass and my guitar never sound tuned to each other ( Read more... )