Not myself, but rather one of my students. He cried. That sucked. He begged for me to pass him, gave me excuses like he had trouble concentrating and was on medication for it and what made it worse was that he was in love with the girl sitting next to him. I stuck to my guns: he really didn't deserve to pass. He cried more. I think I helped ( Read more... )

Mary surprised me last night. I came home from a long day, ready to eat and do some reading before crashing, but I couldn't. I walked in the door, all the light were off and there was my table, all set (even with a tablecloth!), candles, wine and glasses, some bread, a shiny present on the table, and the delicious aroma of garlic (I guessed that ( Read more... )

I like my birthday. NAFTA was signed today, Nixon spoke those famous words, "I am not a crook", Danny DeVito was born as was Martin Scorsese. I get to walk around thinking that I'm so cool cuz its my birthday and people should care. 31 years ago I squeezed out of a vagina and went from being a developed fetus to a person. Kinda neat. I got a ( Read more... )

So...Mary and I went about making pumpkin pie today. We ran into some problems blending the pumpkin up (which we cooked in a pressure cooker which took only 30 min. instead of the hour or so in an oven), so we went and bought a magic bullet thing, one of those hand blender things, which worked like a charm and blended up the pumpkin. We then made ( Read more... )

Cancun was nice...not great, but nice.
Winter arrived in Puebla with a fucking vengeance. I'm freezing.
Treat your students how you would like a teacher to treat your child. Advice from the teaching convention.
I have so much to do. so so so much.

We can go after the businesses that hire them, rather than the workers ( Read more... )

My stomach has stopped cramping up constantly. I'm hoping I can eat again. My fever has finally gone down as well. I lost two days of work, hopefully I can make that up this weekend. Lots to do ( Read more... )

so so sick. Fever, stomach, aches, everything.

I'm on day 3 of not smoking. Even with wellbutrin it is driving me fucking crazy. I'd say have a drink to calm me down but that would really just make me want a cig even more.

It is the season, once again, for chiles en nogada. This is essentially a chile relleno stuffed with meat, apples, peaches, and almonds, covered with a walnut cream sauce: very sweet and a little spicey. I went to my gf´s house and had some home-made ones (by her mother et al.). The nogada is a little too sweet for me, so I brought one home and ( Read more... )