So much creepy weirdness at school.
These are the downsides of being a young, non-disgusting-looking, nice, open-minded teacher.

I've had the chance to meet so many awesome people that I respect since I've been teaching at Jefferson H.S.

Here's some pictures:

James McBride (author of the first book I ever taught...The Color of Water...beautiful novel) and I hanging out at Powell's after he read from his new book about a runaway slave, called Song Yet Sung:

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I think I've been too scared to write anything down lately, aside from lists and lesson plans, because there are too many things happening. Graduate school or life or whatever is really starting to take a toll on my life and I don't think I have it all together anymore. I don't know what the fuck I am doing anymore ( Read more... )

I stumbled upon this and I can't stop watching it.
It has both enriched my life and has ruined it at the same time.
I don't think I will ever be the same.

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Angela Chase and Rayanne Graff.

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Professor Griff from Public Enemy will be speaking/performing at the high school I teach at on February 8!

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Just ate some Pho noodles at Pho Dalat.
Cole is such a fucking baby, it's unbelievable.
Someone tell him to man up. Seriously.

After a two-week hiatus, I am back to the teaching thing. I found myself over the break missing the luminescent, florescent lights above me, making my skin look more translucent than it really is. I've officially lost the sweet-kiss of sun that I got over the summer, a.k.a. when the sun came out almost 5 months ago ( Read more... )

I broke 10,000 today. One of my students is at 22,000...way above quota! She said she wanted to finish it this weekend and use the rest of the month vamping it up. Other students are going pretty steady...some are kind of giving up and are changing their daily quotas to finish a novella instead of a full-fledged novel. We're still egging them ( Read more... )