"Live not for the battles won,
Live not for the-end-of-the-song,
Live in the along."
-Gwendolyn Brooks

Don't work for the grade ( Read more... )

OLP IS COMING TO ORLANDO IN A MONTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I AM SO FUCKING HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I would seriously go alone if everyone else had plans, but who would be willing to go with me? It's Friday, October 14 at the Hard Rock Live. Tickets are only $16.50. AGGGHHHHHHH SOOOOOO HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!

I do not want them to ( Read more... )

I stopped by the apartment yesterday after work. I don't know if I was really ready to see the condition it was in ( Read more... )

I just watched the dvd that came with the OLP cd. Raine revealed what the song "Al Genina (Leave a Light On)"--which is one of the most haunting songs I've ever heard--is all about. Raine traveled to Darfur to shoot a documentary about war-torn countries. Darfur is basically a Rwanda in waiting. So he wrote "Al Genina" about his trip there, how ( Read more... )

I take back all my doubts about OLP. Their new album is so beautiful. I absolutely love it. It's way better (as a complete album) than Gravity and Clumsy. Don't get me wrong, those two albums have some of their best singles, but they have a lot of filler. This album has no filler. None of the songs suck. Two of the songs ("Boy" and "Love and ( Read more... )

I know I seem heartless. It kills me to know how I've come across to others lately. I feel so misrepresented. I didn't just give up and abandon Jon. I held on for so long to something that was over years ago. I longed for it to work, for his sake. For the sake of family. And because I thought there must be something wrong with me to not be ( Read more... )

ummmm the engagement is off. actually, the relationship is just plain over. this whole thing is draining, but i know i did the right thing ( Read more... )

Ok, so I just checked my work email (since I wasn't in my classroom at all today to check it there), and I received a letter from one of the 8th graders I had this past year. The contents of this email have left me pretty much speechless, since this particular student constantly tried to pick arguments with me (I never humored her, I usually just ( Read more... )