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How I learned to ride a bicycle.
I learned how to ride a bicycle at my best friend's house, on her bike. I had my own bicycle at that point, but it had a pair of plastic training wheels fastened to it, and was not up to the task of teaching me the valuable balancing skills and moving-faster-than-a-crawl skills I needed to learn. So, through some agreement or other, I learned on ( Read more... ) -
"I've got nothing to prove this time; just something to show you."
"You look depressed," he said. His eyes were red and worried. I've been back on meds now for a few months. Does he think that they aren't working ( Read more... ) -
Away
Stumbling out - at last - of the smoldering ruins of what used to be my life, I find that those features which I have been straining to see through the haze and smoke are not there. In fact, it seems likely that the landscape toward which I have been bending all my hopes was never anything more than the result of wishful thinking and fever dreams ( Read more... ) -
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I Am A: Chaotic Good Human Wizard (4th Level)
Ability Scores:
Strength-12
Dexterity-8
Constitution-10
Intelligence-17
Wisdom-15
Charisma-14
Alignment:
Chaotic Good A chaotic good character acts as his conscience directs him with little regard for what others expect of him. He makes his own way, but he's kind and benevolent. He believes in goodness ( Read more... ) -
Repost: "Hardships at the High School."
This is reposted, with permission, from a friend working at a high school here in the southwest who wishes to remain anonymous.
The schedule today included a staff development workshop about cultural proficiency and sensitivity. The school is on the south side of town - which means that it certainly has some of the problems associated with such a ( Read more... ) -
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Silly survey thing. Just keeping my typing fingers limber.
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Captured Thoughts 1/29/10
Hello again, internet! I'm gonna see if I can do some of these here Captured Thoughts-type blog entries again. Prolly won't be every day for almost a year again, but it's good to keep the momentum going on my renewed blog-type activities.
( Where the sugar cane grows taller than the God we once believed in... ) -
You're so vain, I bet you think this post is about you.
That's right, boys and girls and all points in-between: it's time again for ten anonymous messages to various people!
( Because what is livejournal for, really? ) -
Interim
I could use my crusader's passion to outline the reasons and ways in which the world is wrong and I am right. I could pedantically peel away your fallacies and assumptions until you have nothing left and are forced to examine every incoming thought and idea lest it adhere itself to your flayed skin and infect the deeper parts of you with its poison ( Read more... )