'if an oompa-loompa can help me attain happiness, i want one of those, too'

[st_lucifer]

  actually, i need no oompa-loompas to attain happiness at the moment. things are well, if busy and stressful in unusual ways.

tomorrow morning, at around 6 am, i'm taking a group of 68 8th graders out into the desert and abandoning  teaching them about geology, ecology, and appreciating the world around them.  not that they should need an

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[gimpie]

hrm
i have a friend in earlham

[kaccii]

Damn, Evan, I love reading about your life!

Can I be jealous? - not that I want to go to the desert with a bunch of teenagers, but still, I'm a little jealous - of so much of it!

[tamble]

Man, I wanna go camping with teenagers for a week...take me!!!

Though I wouldn't be much help since I'm the same size and just as immature as an eigth grader. But if you find an oompa loompa, send him my way, eh?

[helluvatough]

Its actually quite refreshing to read about how rewarding you find working with kids and meeting challenges without any Tony Robbins/"children are god's little miracles" overtones.
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