click it or ticket: http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b98/sydneychaffee/tattoo.jpg. 

The cleaning woman and I are always in the bathroom at the same time.  It doesn't matter which bathroom I go to.  Today I was upstairs in a staff bathroom.  She was spraying pink Lysol around ( Read more... )

“To be human is to live alone on the nerve islands of our bodies.  To connect with another is to imagine with sympathy.  The bridge of humanity is constructed on imagination, a certain kind of imagination, mediated by words.”  -William Ayers, Teaching Toward Freedom, 132.

Dear Sir ( Read more... )

top ten things (random order)

1. homemade cookies
2. dinosaurs
3. winks
4. history
5. magic tricks
6. harmonies
7. animals
8. stand-up/improv comedy
9. colors
10. car singing

right now, at this moment, what's in your top ten?  don't think about it too much.

In Davis, waiting to cross the street.  A small man in running shorts runs up behind me.  "You wanna see JoJo Rodriguez win the Marathon?" he asks.  "You wanna see JoJo Rodriguez run?  You wanna see the Italian Stallion take it to the top?  You wanna see it?  Let's go!"  He shoots off diagonally across the intersection, pumping his arms, picking ( Read more... )

Waiting for a bus in Central Square with Corinne, Bekah, and Shauna.  A skinny, middle-aged man with gold teeth approaches ( Read more... )

Oh, hey, I graduated today!  I got to wear a lovely blue hood with a weird dinosaur-tail coming off the back, and I spent most of the ceremony texting my family about how dumb the speeches were.

I graduate from CS in one more month.  I don't know how I feel about it yet.

Whee!  Let's have summer!

Hey!  I got a job!  I'm going to be a real teacher!

(Also: stop talking bad about Britney.  She's doing the best she can.)

The short backstory: building next to mine burned to the ground on November 4th, damaging my building in the process. I have been unable to occupy my apartment since then and have been sleeping at a friend's house. At first, the landlord estimated I'd be back in my apartment within two weeks. Now it has been two months. They keep encountering ( Read more... )