the good news is that i made it to the 3rd and 4th rounds for the pvpa job. the bad news is that the 4th round is a sunday afternoon, may 2nd to be exact. so between jon's graduation on the 1st and that interview round there will be no journey to providence for revelry for me. why does the universe keep conspiring to keep me away from that city? ( Read more... )

this is just to say that it's over and i survived. now i'm too exhausted to even begin to think how it went, though i think it went well, and now it's just waiting. funny, though, the waiting afterward is easier than waiting beforehand---because i could always be doing more preparation, more obsessing, more details nitty-gritty scuffing the insides ( Read more... )

i'm at work, sitting at my computer, on hold trying to cancel my free 30 day trial of earthlink dialup. this has been my home internet strategy for the past several months: find free trial, use free trial, cancel free trial the day before my credit card gets charged. my punishment for taking advantage of corporate america is being forced to sit on ( Read more... )

tonight one of my journalism kids, kenny, wrote a good piece for the first time since he's been coming to the group. it's about the local military recruiter dude. kenny is 14; his mom's in the reserves; he dreams of nothing except enlisting in the marines when he turns 18. he tried to write a movie review a few months ago, but it made no sense and ( Read more... )

so, on thursday night i have a screening interview at the pioneer valley performing arts charter school---they've been approved to expand down to middle school and are adding a part-time language arts teacher. my qualms about middle-school aside, the one thing that genuinely has me stumped is that i have no idea what sort of books are generally ( Read more... )