I hate bugs. I recently had some sort of pest infestation due to who knows what, and I ended up with several bites that while don't itch too much, itch just enough to make me annoyed ( Read more... )

This is the most disgusting website I may have ever stumbled across: www.godhatesfags.com/

I bring this up ONLY because of this: www.godhatesfags.com/written/fliers/20090112_desert-mountain-high-scottsdale.pdf

APPARENTLY a religious group from Kansas is coming all the way to good old Scottsdale, AZ to protest at my alma matter, Desert Mountain HS ( Read more... )

Aha! Well folks, I'm an officially credentialed teacher in the good ol' state of California. This means pretty much nothing except that it's another thing to add to my list of acheivements. I don't even get a pretty certificate saying "TEACHER!." Nada. Nowadays everything is done online, so my credential exists in the online world. Which means ( Read more... )

In staying up too late, I am bombarded by a sudden sense of loss ( Read more... )

Aha! I have two weeks left before I am unleashed unto the real world with all my glorious teaching powers! TWO WEEKS.

Now, I am going to pause here and say this: I have wanted to be a teacher since oohhhh, 7th grade. How many years has is been that I've been wanting this job? Like almost 10 years. TEN YEARS is a long time to want something. A long ( Read more... )

The passage of Propositions 8 (California) and 102 (Arizona) makes me sick.

I'm not sure anything political has made me this angry in a long time.

All I really want to know is...why?

Okay, so I am three days into my second placement in a 5/6 combination class in Yucaipa. It's about a 20 minute drive from my apartment, which isn't too bad, and school starts at 8:30 and goes until 3:05. This means I have more time to sleep in, and I still get home before five. Which is definitely a plus in my book ( Read more... )

Ok, so it took me a long time to finally write my first entry. I promised great things, and then I got distracted by kindergarteners. I guess that's life.

I've spent the last six weeks in Mentone teaching kindergarteners how to count, read words like 'a', 'I', and 'see', and said enough initial consonants that sometimes when I'm at home after ( Read more... )

 New look. 
Years pass, people change. 
But here I am again.
Expect great things to come. Keep an eye out.

Well, here I go, I'm off to Germany for five months!! March 2nd until July 29th!

Wish me luck!

P.S. If you want to hear about my adventures and I don't already have you on my mass email list, leave me a comment here with your email address, and I'll add you.