This makes me so MAD, I can't even express it.

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It's the summer of public art apparently. The principal at Guilford Elementary/Middle School (the school I taught at this summer) asked me to make a *functional* mural for them. I did it today - it's functional meaning they can put different 'topics' in the banner like honor roll or perfect attendance and have little leaves with the kids names up ( Read more... )

Here's the mural! There are still some touch ups and outlines I'm going to do tomarrow on the houses specifically. This has been quite the adventure - I've had absolutly no help at all....and the thing is like 20 feet tall (I've included a picture of myself painting for reference). No bathrooms nearby, by the way, which was one of the worst parts ( Read more... )

So I went down to the farmers market location to begin to draw on my 'pillar' for my mural. Low and behold, the damn thing is 16 feet tall!!! How in the hell am I supposed to paint that entire thing?! I guess I'll invest in a ladder and hope that some random person with an anti-social personality disorder doesn't walk by and shake me down. Damnitt ( Read more... )

Tomarrow is my last day teaching at Guilford...well technically today was my last day *teaching* since tomarrow is all awards and celebrations for the end of the program ( Read more... )

 Dad would have been 56 today. I would have called him. We would have talked. He would have asked how Ashton's doing. Tell me to blow on his belly a little for him. Maybe tickle his feet. We would have talked about our jobs being teachers, how they are the same, how they're different. We would have talked about Ashton's first birthday coming out. ( Read more... )

Just in case you aren't my myspace friend, or check your bulletins, I thought I'd post this on here too....it's just too damn funny...

This is Ash laughing histerically at Prozac (our dog) while Michael plays catch with him...videoed today :)

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Conversation with 7th grade class today.....this occured while they were working on their drawings ( Read more... )

I was dinking around on the internet and found this ( Read more... )