I fucked up again when I promised that I'd take dieting and exercising seriously and then broke my promise nearly immediately. I guess today is the first day of my summer. I have seven weeks, starting next week, and then some schools open again. I really need to lose two pounds a week and continue it through the year. Then, at the end of the year, ( Read more... )

I got an email from Garden Grove School District saying that because they didn't receive timely notification that I had renewed my credential on time that I may not be paid the $700 or so dollars from them for six months. It does say UP TO SiX MONTHS. It's garbage. Also, I was really feeling good that I had assignments up through this Friday, but ( Read more... )

If my life is going to turn out as bad as it looks like it will, I may as well just concentrate on art and writing and keep trying to become a teacher: English Language Development or Foreign Language instruction. I really need to start going with the getting fluent in Spanish and then French though. I'm even thinking though that if I really got ( Read more... )

I was sort of in a dumpy mood because I was sulking that the call center has hired so many new people and I didn't get any daytime hours. It turns out though that I just got a two day subbing assignment for this coming Thursday and Friday when I thought all districts were closed after Wednesday. It does put me in a weird position in that now I ( Read more... )

I'm still very lethargic, but resisted going through a Starbucks drive thru for breakfast as I often do on Saturdays and ended up going to the library and got a gym membership. I was really very fortunate that the gym I go to was holding a special where you can get a monthly membership for $15 if you sign a contract to have it taken out of your ( Read more... )

This is what happens when you start not having a worker's political party and do everything on the basis or race and gender. She should step down. It is an embarassment to left wing supporters.

Race of Rachel Dolezal, head of Spokane NAACP, comes under question

By Ben Brumfield and Greg Botelho, CNN

Updated 11:56 AM ET, Sat June 13, 2015

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Children are A LOT! different than when I first started working as a teacher in 1998. It's a HUGE! difference. They are happier and friendlier, but much more shallow and there are many more that aren't very smart.

Does the Internet Make You Dumber?
The cognitive effects are measurable: We're turning into shallow thinkers, says Nicholas Carr.

By
NICHOLAS CARR

Updated June 5, 2010 12:01 a.m. ET

The Roman philosopher Seneca may have put it best 2,000 years ago: "To be everywhere is to be nowhere." Today, the Internet grants us easy access to unprecedented ( Read more... )

Bill Maher was criticizing how cameras are everywhere and everyone wants to record of photograph everything. He said for one thing that if character is what you do when no one is looking, then the younger generation will never know if they have any character- because someone is always looking. I think that's a good point and I see teenagers do ( Read more... )

For one thing, if a parent judges me, they really have to try to teach a classroom for 215 days a year, waking at 6am, and being exhausted after 3pm while not being able to go to the bathroom for long stretches of time and having 34 teenagers there that often can't get along ( Read more... )