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Boundless
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It's INSANE how much I love my baby and how much that love keeps growing. Truly amazing.
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Time & Space
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Every once in a while, I stop and marvel at how much happier I am with my job this year, and it's because this is the first year since becoming a teacher that I haven't been doing something else on top of teaching. It's incredible how much more time and space I have... and how much more I can commit to teaching well.
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Quod the f*ck pasó?
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As I have been at home unable to do much of anything for the past 3 days, I have resorted to reliving Olympic figure skating -- scouring NBC's poorly designed website for replays of the pairs short & free and the mens short & free programs. Now, it may be because I'm an elitist fan who (at ONE point, at least) could name every jump by sight and ( Read more... ) -
$35
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Emelin Cruz was a student of mine last year, and she routinely visits my room during lunch to hang out with the rest of us crazies who are in there. She is an avid reader, a huge Twilight and Vampire Diaries fan, a good student, and a good person. She was always a little round in the middle, but she joined Volleyball last year and has since been ( Read more... ) -
In Memoriam
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Last night, I got the call that Lama Gyatso had passed away. I am so glad for him and for all of us who knew him. I know that with every last breath, every last moment, he was in meditation and dedicating whatever merit might come from his life AND death to all of us. I know he knew what he was doing, and he died in the presence of his most ( Read more... ) -
Hell
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I'm more depressed than I've been in a long time; Ariel, my best good friend at Monroe, is being displaced. The 9GAs, which were two, are likely going to be recombined. This means that I will lose my amazing team. Back to the nay-sayers... Did I mention? -- the biggest asshole one of those is the person displacing Ariel. I hope no one fucks him ( ( Read more... )