January 2009
48 posts
silly.
My mom and I were having our weekly Thursday night dinner, and I was telling her about my weekend plans. The conversation went from me explaining the hilarity of Monster Truck Jam to her telling me she was totally on board for the sheer people-watching perspectives I’d gain. Then, I told her all about my trip to Goodwill to be sure we were all outfitted properly for the evening. All were...
hipsterdiet:
drugstoredj:
Till Tuesday - Voices...
The reason I came to school:
One of my students just brought me a Fleet Foxes poster. Why? Oh, because that’s what the kids are listening to these days.
I think my hope in the future generation just multiplied.
“I am in a manlationship with Oliver Corbin Mckeag, my best friend ever. He is...”
– -MaxBerger, who, along with Ollie, are two of my favorite people on the planet.
I miss them.
“I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I’m...”
– -Sweet Clare, from The Time Traveler’s Wife
I do not consider myself romantic in the least. But, I believe that I have developed quite the crush on this book.
twenty five things.
1. When I am afraid of something, it pretty much means I am going to try it. Similarly, if someone tells me I am incapable of doing something, I am most definitely going to do it. The best things about my life have stemmed from one of those two mindsets. 2. This is my fourth year teaching eighth grade, and sometimes I think I’ll get caught for enjoying it too much. 3. When I was 21, I was...
“I don’t know who you are, or whether you are a man or a woman. I may never see...”
– Alan Moore, author of V for Vendetta
lazystar:
Ryan Adams - WW24
My hesitance to...
kid writing: why foxes should be permitted to jump...
“Every fox’s dream is to bounce among one another and therefore unite as a nation! The foxes will literally rise above their current poverty line. You may think that allowing foxes to bounce on trampolines will trash our economy. Maybe you even blame them for the state it’s in right now. But if these foxes could set up their own trampoline business, everything will be just...
“A New Day
It’s a new day.
The sun, anxious, rises early
The clouds mass in...”
– -Student in my 4th period class, who will most assuredly be among the classic authors of her time.
This is, without question, the best thing I’ve ever read written by a student I was fortunate enough to teach.
“My apartment is infested by koala bears. It’s the cutest infestation ever. Way...”
– Mitch Hedberg (via applebottom) (via allcreatures)
“Hey there,
Please feel free to contact me at any time with any questions! You...”
– From a kid’s mom.
I think that might be one of the sweetest names I’ve ever been called.
“He collects comic books. Spiderman is his favorite superhero.”
– Lady on the news about Obama.
Yet another reason to love him. He’s also left-handed, you know.
Now.
I’ve always wondered what it is that causes me to have such vivid dreams. I suppose it’s a double edged sword—when they are bad, they are terrifying. But when they are good-really, really good, they are as close to magic as a girl can get between polka dot sheets atop a memory foam mattress. It’s sweetest when it’s unexpected, you know. I’ve dreampt Harry...
college night.
Last night, KP & I attempted to take to the streets on Thursday, which is this college town’s typical “college night.” But it’s been a few years since I’ve ventured out on such a night so I thought it’d be sweet to take KP, Ohihoe that she is, out to show her what the face of my alma mater looks like nowadays.
Never again.
Did we do this on Thursdays? Were...
mean-streak:
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about-today:
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Barack Obama's Letter to his Daughters. →
so sweet.
a sweeter kind of karma police.
Gave a mighty midterm this week. Part 1 consisted of terms, concepts, titles, etc. Miniature essays were requested with well-formed thesis & ample support. Kids had to draw connections to outside sources & show both depth & analysis, too. Same format as lots of the AP English tests I can recall, same as the dreaded PLT which broke my heart this past summer.
Easy to make, lengthy to...
“Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you’re feeling bad, you just look at...”
– Charles Bukowski on cats (via smut-to-go) (via scout) (via butseriously)
Sounds of silence: Internet kills once popular... →
butseriously:
awww. watch robin get choked up in the video.
sounds familiar was the record store that me, william, will, josh, davie, brent, ashley and david all worked at in columbia. so many memories!
my favorite of those memories: dancing in the aisles to new order with sweet claire & learning how to make dirty jokes out of everything with will & william.
Columbia, I love you.
Katie is one of my oldest friends. We met as doe-eyed freshmen on a hall of sorostitutes our freshman year at USC and I’ve loved her ever since. So her arrival to me come Saturday at precisely 5 pm (rightontime) was more than enough to quell the fears that someway/somehow, this benefit that I’d worked on since August would fail. Fail is actually an understatement as one mental...
Watchabout-today:
Frightened Rabbit, I Feel Better
It’s like Waking Life meets Donnie Darko!
so true!
“The camp sounds good as long as they pay your airfare!! That would be pretty...”
– Mom Solesbee.
Trying to decide plans for the summer. Lots of interviews, these next few weeks. Am sad to think of anything except Emagination, but excited at the idea of seeing the West Coast. Or, ideally, Europe.
wisdom is a fickle mistress.
seemed strange to stand in my kitchen fixing supper last night and see things so suddenly different. for the longest time, i protested the rational thought with the utmost enthusiasm and felt succumbing to it would derive me of the passion which drives most of my life. not sure when it happened, really, but it had to of been fairly recently as it struck me last night like a figurative smack in the...
Watchwill post anything watchmen, all the time, always.
thedailywhat:
New Movie Trailer! Tons of never-before-seen Watchmen footage, courtesy of the full-length Japanese trailer.
[via.]
“Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early...”
– Robert Frost
had the sweetest second with a kid who lost his dad last year as he realized the relevance of this poem today. made my heart feel full.
“Wow, like medical fighting death???”
– Mom Solesbee, in response to the poster design for the American Cancer Society Benefit this weekend.
I don’t even know what that means, but man it’s awesome.
Mean Monday.
Had this sweet idea for a post yesterday about the connections between washing dishes & cleaning things up in the figurative sense, but was distracted by what appears to be an assault by my subconscious on my left big toe. Dropped a hefty laptop from a harrowing height onto it yesterday during the cleanathon & then, this morning, while walking eagerly into the 8th grade hall among only one...
