Who wakes up at 7.30 on a Saturday morning and decides to drive home five hours just to spend the night at home? Only crazy people, of which I am a part of ( Read more... )

This very morning I shared a very early breakfast with a dear friend of mine and the topic of our futures came up. There's a new F word scarier than "friends," ... friends, and that word is "Futures." Futures have been discussed in length and with my exasperation on many a part of my peers. Where will we go? When? When's the good time to apply ( Read more... )

That's What the Lonely is For

The depth of your dreams, the height of your wishes ( Read more... )

We all know that I dislike Valentines, and have for as many years as I've had to spend it by myself while others celebrate with their significant others... the only fun one was the night that Katerator and I drank ourselves silly with sour grapefruit and vodkas while playing Jock Jams USA and Dream Date Heart Throb... This year, however... I am ( Read more... )

HA! I needed to show him that I could do it... and I did it! I do mean Glenn, you know. I told myself that I didn't have to talk to him, because I knew that I didn't. Finally talked to him last night and nothing, nothing. I DON'T need to talk to him ( Read more... )

I can see that I'm going to really dislike some of my students, and by some, I mean very few. And isn't it funny and sad all at the same time how those two kids can ruin and contaminate a group? I've gotta ride their asses for at least two weeks and establish that I'm the boss... because as seniors they don't think that I'm really going to be ( Read more... )

No more team-teaching for me... tomorrow I get 60 new seniors that will be mine for the next six weeks. Now... about those first day nightmares I've been having ( Read more... )

Once upon a time there was a boat sailing the open seas. The women had been sailing throughout the year in search of the perfect island. They had not seen land in weeks, months even. It had been so long that they had lost track of the time and couldn't remember ( Read more... )

How is it only Wednesday? I'm BEAT.

Appreciate: DJ Danger Mouse's mix of Jay Z "Black Album" and the Beatles's "White Album."

Get in the designer loop: NYLON mag

Get amped: Jem full-length album.

Get: a tape recorder, I'm always inspired to write when I'm driving my 80+ miles every day.

Right now I'm right where I wanna be. I've never felt so loved, so peaceful and so free. Hey there ain't no doubt that God's been good to me. [keith urban ( Read more... )