Well I'm here in the land of scruffy crunchy kids and anarchist self-determination and lots of new natural foods grocery stores. I feel like I might be taken out back and roughed up because I'm wearing my very exploitive Nikes that C's mom got for me...but I think it's just because I'm trying to blend in with the local coffee drinking collective ( Read more... )

Well my students are finally almost done with these cool-ass Keith Haring inspired sculptures, and they look tight! This is the most time-consuming project I've ever done in my art classes, so I'm psyched they are turning out cool and not just blah. The kids really like them, too, and they're having all sorts of fun throughout the process. When ( Read more... )

I feel like I have no voice in the things that are happening to me on a daily basis. Nationally, globally, locally in my town, at my school, at my house. If I complain, I risk losing my job, sounding like a bitter, resentful teacher, jeopardizing the precarious relationship I have with housemates, making my girlfriend pout or be mad at me while ( Read more... )

Sometimes I wonder if people in other professions have to deal with insults on a daily basis. It's odd that I have chosen a job in which I am subjected to insults and threats from boys. I'd like to say that it's not JUST boys, that there are some fierce girls giving me a hard time, but it's just not true. The fiercest girls, the meanest girls, ( Read more... )

Maxwell Chaos is the cutest kitten in the whole wide world! Ten silly adorable kitten things Maxxy does ( Read more... )

I'm having a Bud Light, enjoying the free internet at the lesbian bar in Lincoln, Nebraska, appropriately named Panic! It's been around for a long time, and my crazy friends and I used to do crazy line dancing here...woah, doggy. Now they have internet and a Simpsons pinball game, which have saved my sanity after spening the last two days with my ( Read more... )

So I've been thinking about quitting teaching for a while. Pretty funny since I'll finish my Master's in Education this Fall. Studying sustainability and ecological design...wouldn't that be cool? I want to get back to environmental activism in some way, and I really feel like working in environmental design could be amazing...solar power ( Read more... )

Back home after driving up the beautiful California coast, through the amazing ancient Redwoods, visiting my sister, niece, and mom, and setting off way too many fireworks and driving home in our sauna of a car. I love the rivers and amazing natural places here in California, and Oregon is so so beautiful. Portland is such a fun town, especially ( Read more... )

Ok, so school is out and I'm ready to party, and I have mousy blond/brown hair. It sucks. I'm trying not to put noxious chemicals on my head, but I am yearning for the cute black hair days, or the red hair, or the pink hair...anything but my freaking non-descript natural hair. Maybe strawberry blond/sunstreaked natural blond hair was hot in the ( Read more... )

Summer is so deliciously close I can taste it. Sunshine, movies, road trip to Nebraska to see my grandma...bike rides...only two short and crazy weeks of school insanity and I'll be free ( Read more... )