So - I'm finally going to Italy. I have not yet purchased tickets but will be traveling approximately April 8th-18th...so far it's just me, myself and I. I'd like someone to come along...anyone interested? I wanna do it fairly cheap, but maybe spoil myself a little here and there. I want to do Venice, Florence and Rome...I would love to do the ( Read more... )

For the past year I have had a secret bus friendship that I must get out in the open. His name is Joel, he's a Hispanic man in his late 50's early 60's who works as the maintenance man at a private school near my ghetto public school. Aside from his morning hug and kiss on the cheek, I very much enjoy the poems he has for me everyday. He started ( Read more... )

Hello and welcome September. Something about the new school year makes me feel excited and scared at the same time. Excited for the possibilities a new year holds but scared of the vast amount of work I have ahead of me. Graduate classes and a new group of little terrors to teach - nothing says THIS IS YOUR LIFE quite like a new Fall semester ( Read more... )

I just saw the Sex and the City Movie. Without sp;oiling it - I have one thing to say. It's supposed to take place 10 years later after Big and Carrie have been together for 10 years. (as Charlotte informs us in the preview, so I'm not ruining anything.) All I have to say is....show ended in 2004= + 10 = 2014...why were there no FLYING CARS! Come ( Read more... )

As this whirlwind of a year simmers down I'm trying to take some time to reflect. I have become such a different person this past year that I'm hard to even recognize to myself. Aside from the external changes of a new job and moving out on my own I've had some pretty serious internal changes that I am not going to share in my online journal, or ( Read more... )

Time stops. Hurriedness pauses for just a moment and suddenly you're overwhelmed with feelings that come rushing back. Feelings you've managed to store away in dark places of yourself...distract your mind from recognizing. How can something that happened years ago still be inside of you, weighing you down, tearing out layer upon layer of tissue ( Read more... )

She's riding the subway. Alone. 2am. A school night. She gets to Prince street and sees a man nonchalantly peeing behind a trash can. Not in a crude and disgusting "Look at my penis," sort of way. But in a generic "I'm a nice banker who just had too much to drink and can't wait until I make it home," sort of way. She's on the N express late night. ( Read more... )

Holy shit damn mother fucker. I dropped off the planet and it hurt like a bitch. Gave myself a concussion. Now I'm just sitting here in my apartment, wasting the day away writing page after page of what, I do not know. Translation: I have a concussion. I'm not allowed to go to work until March 10th. So I have sat in my apartment and begun writing ( Read more... )

I don't even know how long it's been since I updated. Everything has changed. I'm currently in CA visiting my parents. I moved out and into my OWN 3 bedroom apartment in Bay Ridge/Sunset Park - Brooklyn. I'm a teacher for 7th-8th grade ED kids - INSANE - and I'm getting my Masters at Pace University in Childhood Education. Life is crazy ( Read more... )

I just read back and realized I haven't updated on some important things - I passed my second teaching test - I got a 288 this time. Another PERFECT score ins Science. Apparently I should have been a science teacher ( Read more... )