all this week i have passed in waves through the states of competent center of attention and despondent self-berating wreck. usually no one gets a look at the latter part. not even my counselor, this week. i told her about making it home in softball and about hammering out my insane schedule and about going tomorrow to d.c. travel. i hate to pack. ( Read more... )

so my dad brought me home a copy of the arizona republic. some kids in a chandler-gilbert community college credit program were almost not allowed to wear the sashes cgcc had given them for graduation. sound familiar? that's because it is. i wrote versions of this letter to the principal (below), the reporter, and the superintendent, who cleaned up ( Read more... )