Dear Substitute Teachers: Why can’t you follow a freaking lesson plan? Do you know how hard I work on those plans just to make sure (a) the period’s not wasted and (b) you can execute them with minimal confusion or stress? You are driving me insane. It’s difficult enough to call in for a sub [...]
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Dear Pilot Pen Corp.: First, I need to say that I have been a fan since sometime in high school when I picked up my first Pilot ball-point. I was such a fan that some of my close friends gave me Pilots as Christmas gifts, which was a good thing because I was still the [...]
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I just got last year’s Minus the Bear album, Planet of Ice, and it’s burning a hole in me, it’s so good. It’s like mathy alt/indy stuff. Good to chill to on a Monday night when you’ve had to go to work for the first time in ten days and haven’t had enough sleep; engages [...]
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Today was the last day of spring break. The next eight weeks will be a blur; they are always a blur. I have so much to do and so little time in which to get it accomplished, and soon I will be standing with my colleagues as I watch a twelfth senior class turn its [...]
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Holy anchovy. Spent all day in the library reading Newbery books and then all evening at Starbucks doing the same thing. Fried! I am fried! But I’ve been thinking about important books all day, since most of what I read was kinda crappy. I’m sure somewhere I’ve posted my list of milestone songs and albums, [...]
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Stuff I’m going to do once I’m done. Go to the bookstore and buy five books I want to read. Fill out applications for adjunct faculty positions. I want to teach a college-level course or two in the evenings. Buy a drink for the ten people who come after me in line at Starbucks. Start [...]
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My brain is still fried, or perhaps my brain is fried yet again. Either way, I can’t bring forth the effort it would take to write something intelligent, so once again I will write about food. Food’s easy, if a bit redundant after a while. So Kalei is visiting Hawaii, and of course food is [...]
The reading has been agonizingly slow this week. It’s driving me insane. And the material has been pretty good, so it’s not that. I have to give my program director a status update this week. I like a good prank, even when I’m the victim and not the culprit. If it’s done right, nobody gets [...]
I’ll continue the list of places I’ve been some other time. Just don’t feel like making that list tonight. I slept in today; I knew I needed one day sometime this week to just sleep as long as I could, so today was that day. I woke up from a terrific, depressing dream at about [...]
Worked like a dog today but didn’t finish anything I started. Soooo frustrating. However, I guess I put myself in a position to finish several things tomorrow, so that might be nice. I’m so ready to be through with this paper! This is not so much a list of places I’ve traveled as a recollection [...]
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