Kim Davis is my most favorite person in the whole world. I cannot imagine living in a world without a Kim Davis in it. There would be no puppies in a world without Kim Davis. No kitties. No sunshine. No rainbows. No depletion of the ozone or nuclear bombs either. All of the wonders of life would just cease to exist if the world would cease to allow ( Read more... )

I attended one of the final showings of the New York City Clown Festival this saturday and it was one of the bizarrest sights I've been privy to in a while. It was a one-clown existential pretension fest that ended with an all out homoerotic cuddle session between the clown (who was now wearing nothing but a thong and a red clown nose and was ( Read more... )

Yes! I've finally gotten my job secured and it sounds perfect. I'm going to be working with low to mid-functioning Jr. High students with autism at a school on the upper east side by 64th street or so. The really great thing is that they've hired me so that I can help them implement a music program at their school! I'm so excited about it. I guess ( Read more... )

My friend Noah and I just put down our deposit for our apartment. It's an incredible place. It's in a black and Latino neighborhood in west Bed-sty, Brooklyn, right off the Nostrom stop on the A-C train. The house is a great old brownstone on a tree lined street and most of the houses have little gardens out front. Basically, it looks just like ( Read more... )

Today was my last day of pre-service training and I hold in my greasy hands a 1500 cheque from the good people at the teaching fellows. Still no word on where I'll be working in the fall but there is a job fair on the 8th that will hopefully be conclusive ( Read more... )

Well, I'm over the hump. I got all the really important stuff done this week and now I just have a last, easy week before I'm through with my training. It's really zipped by, let me tell ya. I still don't know where I'll be teaching but I'm not terribly worried about it ( Read more... )

Continuing this weeks theme I went to the much less impressive Korea Town with my dear friend Adamantium Demby. The Korean restaurant we ate was anything but unimpressive, however. Free kimchii with every order. The 3-4 blocks of Korea town was still impressively stuffed with Koreans, however. Adam and I were the only white dudes out of about 10 ( Read more... )

I just got back from my first real forray into China Town. It's only about 10 or 11 blocks from where I'm living but the streets in lower manhattan are a frickin maze and I was finally able to find it today. It was like stepping into another country. Out of the 5,000 people or so I passed on the street, probably less then 15 weren't asian. Everyone ( Read more... )

I taught the entire morning of summer teaching today, for the first time. I had been assistant teaching up this point. We ended up having entirely different students then we thought we were gonna, so I had to throw out my entire lesson plan I had spent over two hours preparing the night before. But... I actually had the time of my life. Honest to ( Read more... )

So I've been scammed out of a lot of money by some shady broker folks. They told me one thing while the contract said another. I read it carefully as I could but I was suffering from a fever and horribly miss read it. I'm going down with both fists flying. They will rue the day. I feel like such a total bumpkin, getting the wool pulled over my eyes ( Read more... )