When the world changed for me on 16 September 2010, it was a path carved out by modern medical science. The science I experienced and will forever bear scars from was only made possible by political realities. In June of 2010 I had turned 24; if not for the Affordable Healthcare Act, I would not have had the bariatric surgery. There are tough ( Read more... )

Something snapped within me this week, and it is something that through the limitations of twitter and conversation I have been trying to articulate. This is the first attempt at actually creating any sort of prosaic, or hopefully lyrical, sense of what has been wandering in my mind ( Read more... )

Picture it, the late 1970s. A redneck town is experiencing population growth and the need to build new houses. There is lots of farmland to convert to houses near the newish, experimental high school, Beyer. The houses are built and the street on the East side of the school has the 5 houses which will serve as the model homes for the subdivision ( Read more... )

...the title is a poor paraphrase of a line from Community. Though initially I scoffed at the show, I have come to eat that scoff up; what would be funny about Chevy Chase? After all, didn't I chuckle so hard circa 1995 at the Critic line "at 10 o'clock, the best of Chevy Chase...then at 10:05, the news ( Read more... )

The evening was kind of rough. Actually, today was kind of weird (or I guess yesterday now?) as I proctored state testing (CAHSEEs --California High School Exit Exam). It meant 2 less lesson plans for the week and a chance to grade some shit that had been piling up. I am definitely prepared and I even got to do some things I had been putting off ( ( Read more... )

It is rather late on a Sunday night. While this should not be the normal routine, the situation is comfortable for this week as tomorrow as a Holiday. Nonetheless, lesson planning should become a priority ( Read more... )

At this time, I actually still do not have a coherent story or thread. I keep finding little errors and glitches in my writing and what I want to say and what I meant to say. So many errors and mistakes are made daily by myself. For instance, I repeated basically in this morning's entry the way that obnoxious guy in the movie line in Annie Hall ( Read more... )

This entry was titled part 3 because, as the cookies/saved titles when I typed it indicated that I had used it twice before. So why am I continuing the broken record ( Read more... )

It occurred to me that I had no updated in a few days. According to the time stamp, it has been since Saturday. I don't know if that'll be the norm --only a weekly update or two. But it does seem strange, given that I had that period of time (most of this year) where I was updating probably about 4-5 times a week, sometimes more, sometimes less ( Read more... )

In the interest of times and schedules, I'm pretty sure this won't be the usual, long, messy, psychobabble that was especially prevalent from April to last week. That being said (I keep coming back to that phrase), don't necessarily expect it to die right away. I'm young; I'm naive; I'm idealistic. In short, I want to change the world --at least as ( Read more... )