okay...my uncle calls me every once in a while to bitch about what I am doing with my life. for some reason being a teacher never sat well with him. and every time he brings up why I should not teach at Summerbridge next summer and about how it is bringing my life down because I'm not becoming a stock broker or something. and each time we have to ( Read more... )

kids at summerbridge are. on thursday evenings I help middle school students with their homework, and they are just hilarious. this week, one of the students said to one of the co-directors, "When I'm grown up I'm gonna beat you over the head." And all of the staff was dying with laughter, including the co-director who was like, "yeah, I'm sure you ( Read more... )

This is stuck in my head from some rap song from the past...."Money ain't a thing?"...I think it might have been by Puff Daddy ( Read more... )

Rachel took this picture of my crotch before our game with MIT. i couldn't think of anything else somewhat exciting to put in this entry as a picture, so here it is:

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Children are beautiful. They just are. I don't think they can be wrong. When I used to visit kids at Children's Hospital Boston I just realized how unfair it is when things go wrong for kids, because they just don't deserve it. Many of the infants I used to entertain had families in different states that couldn't afford to live in the Boston area ( Read more... )

Joe = boo boo cake. It's way too awkward for me to call people "baby" or "honey", it's just too hard. So I have created boo boo cake to fix this problem. I took "boo boo" from rachel and put a pastry at the end. It could also be boo boo muffin, or boo boo pie, or boo boo toast. or even like something more specific, like boo boo blueberry muffin top ( Read more... )

This morning was another getting up at 5:30am for ice-hockey morning and having to be on the team opposing the large blue plastic goalie-board named Rick O'Shay. Followed by a having two math tests morning, where you don't really know how many different ways there are to arrange the letters in MATHEMATICS keeping all of the vowels in order and ( Read more... )

Last night I had the best time ever talking to Rachel [love you boo!] about life in general. It was great, it's so nice to have such great friends here, I think sometimes that's all I really need. It was good to know that I'm not crazy in that it's difficult for me to open up to professional therapists who simply don't do their jobs. It was so ( Read more... )

Here are pictures from our floor last year, and I miss these people so so so so so much. Like way too much. I miss you Julia, Andrea, and Arielle, and of course, Jordan


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Ahhh! I miss Aubrey so much and I saw him yesterday. I am so lame. There's this hurt that comes along with caring for someone so much. I'm not sure quite how to explain it. You like hurt because you want to be a better person, you just want to do so much more right. Something strange occurred to me while I was waiting for Aubrey yesterday holding ( Read more... )