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Everyone's Favorite Animal
I have been appointed to the 3rd grade. All this means is that instead of telling 1st grade nosepickers to stop pissing their pants, I now tell students to stop repeating Eminem lyrics about stuffing their girlfriends in car trunks on school grounds.
Maybe I'm an old fogey, or maybe society has really changed in the last decade, but it seems these 8 ( Read more... ) -
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I have always gone through fitness stints. I have belonged to the YMCA for years, and go consisently for a few weeks each year, and then fall off the wagon again. I just hated going on machines for an hour, staring into nothingness, and sweating my ass off. I am certainly someone who should not be given too much time to overthink things, and that ( Read more... ) -
Happy Easter...?
You know, I've been raised Catholic all my life. I went to Sunday school, got baptized/communionized/confirmed, and I even went to Catholic school.
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WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't think I took a breath of air the entire time I was making this transaction:
Passenger: Jane Callahan
Departure Date: May 31, 2006
Leaving From: New York, NY (JFK)
Arriving At: Honolulu, HI (same day)
Total Price: now wouldn't you like to know.
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An Unfortunate House in Brooklyn
In many pieces of literature, the house is used as a symbol of the mind. In darker stories, the house is rotting and falling apart and it's inhabitants are slowly going insane. Most people would agree that the state of one's house or room will very much reflect the state of mind of it's owner.
I would like to prove that theory wrong. With my own ( Read more... ) -
I PASSED!
Test Date: 02/25/2006
JANE K CALLAHAN
BROOKLYN, NY 11215
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Test: SEC. ASSESS. OF TEACHING SKILLS-WRITTEN
Status: Pass
Total Score: 263
Minimum Passing Score: 220
I PASSED!!!! WITH FLYING COLORS!!!! I am now a New York State certified High School English teacher! -
Kids Blow
The other day I started a project with the kids at school. I read them Aesop's Fables. For those of you not familiar with Aesop, he told stories of how animals got the way they did. For example, pigeons. When God was painting all the animals, the pigeons tried to skip the line. God got pissed and kicked them to the end of the line. By the time it ( Read more... ) -
Ending of a Dry Spell
I didn't make the full month without drinking--- but I made it to day 24. I even MISSED St. Patrick's day. So, I think we all got the point: I can go an extended amount of time without liquor. Now, let the games begin.
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Jane's Reasons Why
I think I'm gonna like Hawaii. And I will tell you why.
There is no better way to get a sense of the type of people that live somewhere than to troll around Craigslist for that area. For those of you FREAKS WHO LIVE IN CAVES that don't know what www.craigslist.org is, its a database for everything you could ever want/need in a city. Anyway, ( Read more... ) -
Drum roll, please.....
We all knew I wouldn't stay put for long.
Well, for a while now I have been considering moving to Hawaii. A friend mentioned it, and for a bit I didn't really consider it- in some ways I feel like I've just gotten back.
But as I realized that a majority of my options for Fall 2006 as a high school teacher were in the ghetto, I started thinking about ( Read more... )