I just completed my last night hike for camp, and it was such a good note to go out on. I had this amazing conversation with one of the kids about how violent South Central (his neighborhood) can be, about how the LAPD engages in profiling and harassing people based on how they look or dress, how it's the system that's messed up not the individual ( Read more... )

So it's official. I'm becoming a teacher. I enrolled at Cal State Northridge as a graduate student and I start classes the last week of January. I'll finish June after next and could be leading a classroom by fall of 2009 ( Read more... )

I have been very stressed lately. Overly stressed. Unhealthily stressed. I can feel it in my body, especially my heart. It’s not good for me. It’s not fair for my partner ( Read more... )

Moving is always stressful and difficult. Add into that moving up a hill with eighty-six steps and a bad knee and it gets worse. Add the lack of lots of help from others ( Read more... )

Haven't posted in the while, and figured I'd give a quick update ( Read more... )

Because it made me think of you. I would recommend only listening to it, rather than watching it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA5tnFXq4ME

So yesterday was my one year anniversary of living in LA. And, um, still don't like it. Still want to live somewhere else. It almost never reduces me to tears these days (why, it's been over a week!) but it's just not my choice. I still feel very determined to move Sam up to the Bay Area. I just wasn't finished there. Maybe we don't need to ( Read more... )

So, Burning Man. I went. This time with the man I met there last year. And, well, it wasn't all that ( Read more... )

I haven't posted in awhile, and my Word file where I put random thoughts destined to become journal entries is getting long. Among other things, I turned 25 and got another tattoo, quite a large one on my chest. The birthday musings were hard this year, I think because there were so many momentous changes, but I have written about it and at some ( Read more... )

Um, to whomever anonymously bought me a permanent paid account, thanks. That was unexpected and generous.