Into the fourth week, I still have apprehension with certain approaches when tutoring.  I ask myself if it is appropriate or if it is too presumptuous between the teachers, the students and myself.  These dynamics are constantly in turmoil with external influences from the school as well.  Today was really focused on managing ( Read more... )

21 April 08

Today was a very mellow day.  Most of the students were very involved and the teachers had minimal trouble with getting them involved.  I was only there, really, to give them that extra push.  My favorite part of tutoring a stubborn student is convincing them that I hurt inside if they don’t try.  They know it’s a joke but they ( Read more... )

            My first tutoring session was broken up into three parts.  The teacher informed me of WASL testing that was coming up next week and the amount of prep work involved.  I was assigned to work with one student had been skipping frequently for the past week named Tommy.  I helped him outline a paper and the subject was his favorite person.  ( Read more... )

Things have been much stranger since the year began and have continued to escalate since Spring Break began ( Read more... )

"Is that the kind of love you want?  'Take me now, ask questions later'?"
"That would be a question now, wouldn't it?"

I am officially a third of the way through finals.  I'll do the presentation to avoid humiliation.  I'll do the sociological theory paper so I can finish the major by next quarter.  But I don't think I have it in me to write another 15-pager ( Read more... )

[21:13] : oh ( Read more... )

Two thousand dollar TV that was gifted to me has been on the fritz.  I don't even use the fucking thing anymore.  Cost over 200 to fix it, but there's no money to invest on it when I have to cover lawyer fees. 
Monitor has been spazzing out.  Display creates shadows.
Lost my paintball gun.  Hadn't seen it for a year, assumed it was still there.  ( Read more... )

Luke: What's in there?
Yoda: Only what you take with you.

The springtime of Lovers has come,

that this dust bowl may become a garden;

the proclamation of heaven has come,

that the bird of the soul may rise in flight.

The sea becomes full of pearls,
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