This post is a few days late, because I graduated from college on May 1, 1999. Man, a lot has happened in 10 years, and I want to talk about it for a bit. I left college thinking I would be getting a job as a band director. Instead, I ended up teaching K-8 general music at a startup charter school a 1/2 mile from the border of Detroit that had ( Read more... )

I moved away from the Detroit area nearly 3 years ago, but I still check the online versions of Detroit's major newspapers nearly every day. My hometown is not doing so well right now, clearly, and it needs all the help it can get. And yeah, even though I never lived within the boundaries of Detroit proper, I still consider the city and the ( Read more... )

*sigh ( Read more... )

Last week Scott came down to visit for the week. Though he was only here from Sunday-Friday, so he missed some stuff ( Read more... )

I think I'm starting to get out of the habit, and I haven't even started using Twitter! Generally I'm not into the idea of Twitter, at least not for me personally. When I have something to say, I usually need way more than 140 characters to do it. Also, I don't feel like my life is thrilling enough to update people several times a day on what's ( Read more... )

Results for the unanswered songs:

1. 'Ello. 'Ello! My name's Terry and I'm a law abider.- "The Irony of it All" by The Streets
2. Early one day, I got up the strength, to call you on the phone- "I'm Your Boyfriend Now" by They Might Be Giants
3. Hangin' out, while the monkeys type away- "We Live in a Dump" by They Might Be Giants5. Eveline grips ( Read more... )

So this one is bouncing around on Facebook right now, but I only got limited responses over there. So I'm posing the 30 songs here to see if anybody else can get some of these ( Read more... )

Wow, January 25 was my last post. I've been neglecting the personal LJ for quite a while. Let's see. I had a really nice Valentine's Day with Judy. It wasn't exactly traditionally romantic, but it was still good. We went to a birthday party for one of the kids in Evelyn's play group in the early afternoon. Then a quick trip to the grocery store for ( Read more... )

Since I acquired my part-time cat Dexter back at the beginning of the month, a few things have happened. He showed up randomly for a while, sometimes after midnight on weeknights. And he would come in and eat and drink and settle down and sleep for a while. Also, we put a collar on him the first day he was here, which was gone when he came back the ( Read more... )

The rules, taken from ahestele:

A) Go to Music Outfitters.B) In the search function, enter the year you graduated from high school. Get the list of the 100 most popular songs of that year ( Read more... )