while walking the dog today I saw a kid wearing Reebok "pump" sneakers, seeing this immediatley brought me back to the 6th grade. During that formative year I was enrolled in a rather uppity private catholic academy, whose mission was to take the most spoiled rich children of my hometown and push them to the limits of their brattiness. In ( Read more... )

i hope that everyone has had a lovely x-mas...i hope all of your new years celebrations are equally as lovely...and to all those traveling, be safe in your journies to and from home...
love-d

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MATT BANKSTON!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY KIMMY CALLAIS!!!!!!

LOVE-D

i would like to wish Wendy Armington a happy birthday, she has saved my life (literally one time) and i love her...i hope the next year of your life is filled with adventures and answers...

as if this week couldn't get any better....(note sarcasm)...the two new female English teachers that were supposed to come to Korea to work at my school backed out TODAY and they were supposed to be here in a week and a half, so we are screwed...here is what i am offering ( Read more... )

it seems that my parents house is partially under water...all of my stuff i left behind is gone...there is a tree on my house and my heart hurts....

my parents and my little brother called me in the middle of the night (middle of the day in the states) to tell me that they were evactuating our house in Lake Charles...they took my cat, my guitar, and a piece of the Berlin Wall i got in germany...they are safe in shreveport...i hate being so far from home when shit like this happens ( Read more... )

My aunt that lived in New Orleans has been missing since Sunday...I know some of you are volunteering in Baton Rouge and other cities, would you please, please, please listen or look for her name somewhere...her name is Gladys Humbree...no one knows where she is, she is quite old and sickly....

thank you
thank you
thank you
thank you

i was driving to work today and while stopped at a red light a korean man started pointing at me and yelling "fuck you, fuck you, fuck you" over and over again...at first i thought he was pointing at my motorcycle, but as it turns out he was pointing to my t-shirt that has a picture of Stalin flipping the bird with the words "FUCKING REVOLUTION" ( Read more... )

i've been watching CNN Asia non-stop since the hurricane hit...its times like these, when you live on the other side of the planet, that you just want to be home so you can just make sure everyone is ok....one of the korean teachers today at work said "Mr.Newman, i saw new orleans under water, its so sad", that was all it took, i ended up on the ( Read more... )