I know there are a couple others out there intested in education and class and all that... I don't think I've journaled about this yet, so bite down on this one:

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Either parents have failed in recent years at teaching their offspring basic human courtesies, or our spawn, as a race, has become so horrifically mutated that they are no longer able to absorb these simple lessons. I am not sure which conclusion is better. It seems that my particular genetic strings aren't so corrupt as to render me incapable of ( Read more... )

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Our graduation speaker was announced today: Charles Simic, current poet laureate.   http://www.loc.gov/poetry/laureate_current.html
I'm pretty excited, that's pretty cool.
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Grades are up.  Ugh.

Applied today for a teaching job in Memphis, since Teach for American knocked me.
Will be appying for similar teaching jobs in Philadelphia and New York soon.
I doubt I'll get any of them, but I hope I do.

We'll see...

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I saw a woman on the quad today with an over sized baby carriage, pushing around 7 puppies in Halloween costumes. It was amazing. I love puppies in costumes.

Phone Interview = ehhhh, no terrific.

We'll see, hopefully they realize what an awkward way of talking to someone that is and I can still move on to the real interview.

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Scholarship contest, since I know most people who read this are poor and loud like me, and so I will share the knowledge.