I haven't posted to Livejournal in years, but I have time right now, and I feel like a day such as today should be documented. This post shall act as a summary and table of contents for the other posts I would like to write ( Read more... )

Last year was my first year teaching. Obviously, there were a lot of things I did wrong, some of which I have corrected this year, but there are also a lot of things I did right. The people who completed my algebra class last year are good at dealing with functions algebraically, better than people who completed Mike's (the math teacher I ( Read more... )

In order to preempt my third January in a row of bringing my laptop to the shop and begging the fates that I can get just another couple months out of it, I finally bought a desktop computer for the first time since my freshman year in college.

This post comes to you while Half-Life 2 installs (which I still haven't played yet).

Now that I have listened to every song on my external hard drive, I feel I have arrived at a point of musical stagnation. I have added very few four star songs recently, and only one five star song. (All of this music was acquired legally through mix CDs given to me by friends over the past few years. The legality of these was not challenged by ( Read more... )

I finally got off of North America for the first time in my life. I mean, I've been all over North America, I've been to the Carribean, but I've never been to another continent before. Now I'm in Japan.

( My first night in Tokyo )

Arisia was an amazing time, as always. I regret that I didn't get to spend much time with my lovely girlfriend, but we just had different interests this weekend ( Read more... )

I was walking through the Boston Common, towards the Boston Public Gardens, when I saw a piece of ice skid past me. I looked back, and saw a little boy running towards this block of ice he had just kicked, but I was standing in front of a rather busy piece of road, so I placed myself between the little boy and the traffic. It was only a matter of ( Read more... )

This is the first weekend this month that I have slept in my own bed, rather than the tent we bought last month. I am so glad we bought that tent: it is small, but comfortable, and about the size of my bed at home ( Read more... )

I apologize to those of you who don't like the word blog. You're silly ( Read more... )

I just had my first day of my new job as a teacher, and I feel so much better than I did this morning, when I was stressing out with new-job-anxiety ( Read more... )