This is a paper that I wrote for the Intro to Urban Education class I'm taking now. I had to write a paper that reflected on my experiences in education. Thinking about the topic took forever. But when I came up with the idea, I recognized that I was foolish for never having wrote about it before. This was a topic that I needed to get off my ( Read more... )

Well, my most brutal semester yet's over. The last paper's written, and there's nothing left but the crying and the class that adjourns at the bar. Working 25-30 hours a week plus 9 credits is pretty damn brutal ( Read more... )

I'm incredibly pissed with Facebook. Someone hacked my account, and now Facebook wants me to identify people with photos on my friends list. Guess what? Most of the people on my friends list are writers or people I correspond with. I haven't met the majority of them face to face. So how the blue blazes am I supposed to get all of these right ( Read more... )

I'm posting here things from my Technology in Education class because I know this interface for blogging, and I don't particularly feel like opening another blog account somewhere else and possibly getting all the old people who read my stuff to jump back over ( Read more... )

I've been working part-time on and off at Kaplan Aspect, a school in Philly that offers ESL classes during the mornings and early afternoons. We had a workshop today with a creative writing exercise that was totally awesome ( Read more... )

Yeah, to all of you guys who see this come up, you might be surprised ( Read more... )

I've been doing a fair amount of phone banking, calling people who are registered Democrats in the region and asking them who they're going to vote for on Tuesday. (Pennsylvania's primary is on Tuesday, for those of you reading this in the future.) I broke the 500 call mark yesterday. That's a lot of people, and I've talked to a lot of Obama ( Read more... )

I got up early this morning and got a ride down to Scranton for the St. Patrick's Day Parade. By various counts, it's either the second, third, or fourth most attended and lively parades for the holiday in the US. Scranton's got a ton of Irish history, as the town was founded after most Pennsylvanian cities. The Molly McGuires were headquartered ( Read more... )

Well, the flight went off fairly well.  Northwest was pleasantly decent for once, with enough legroom to deal with.  I lucked out on a window seat with an empty middle seat between the aisle.  The flight was fairly booked.  My original flight from Nagoya to Detroit was delayed, so when I got to Nagoya three hours early, they told me they'd bump me ( Read more... )

Well, with less than 24 hours left before I fly, I have finally finished cleaning up the old apartment.  Sweeping, hauling out the old, deadbeat clothes on the right trash day, vacuuming, scrubbing, and all the other evil gerunds I usually don't like to think about.

Of all the worldly possessions that were in my apartment, about two thirds made the ( Read more... )