I HAVEN'T POSTED IN A FUCKING ETERNITY!
You know why?
My computer finally died. It was eaten alive by viruses. It was quite gory. I opened my door, stepped cautiously and oh so dramatically slowly over the threshold, and saw the bloody, meaty remains of my computer strewn across the desk. The viruses had eaten most of it, but there were some cords ( Read more... )

Dick's One-A-Day Art Vitamin: Getting so much better. I've figured out enough of how to communicate with Dick, strange though it may always be. Plus I'm getting to know more of the kids, which makes things way less awkward and boring. For a while the only one I was able to talk to was tiny Jeremy, this little curly blond eight-year-old who is SO ( Read more... )

I was worried that camp was beginning to feel monotonous. Now that it's the sixth week, it's starting to get that...job feeling; you know, since you finally know the routine backwards and forwards with your eyes closed and you've demonstrated how to do all the wire jewelry links and book-making stitches before, and you've dealt with so many shy, ( Read more... )

Long time no post, but this might not be a long one because I'm reeeally sleepy. Work was a bit hectic but as always supah fun this week. Tori and Laura, these two eight-year-olds, love me now. I have Tori in one class and Laura in a few. They're so hilarious because Tori's a tiny ball of sunshine and boundless hyperactive energy, and Laura's this ( Read more... )

There's a little girl in my first period class who likes to march around the room saying "My name is Officer Package-of-Paper" so that it sounds like packageopapah.
Anyways,
Four-day work week! I wanted this week to go by really quickly and it did. Yesterday was nuts. First, during camp the kiddies were painting giant monster-self-portraits on the ( Read more... )