I can't wait until I get to the point in my life where I can say, "everything happens for a reason" about something good ( Read more... )

Feeling much better. Much less melancholy.

The plan for the week:

Tuesday: teach, plan, grade, watch Gilmore Girls, talk to Jess about how bad it was
Wednesday: teach, go to Bloomington (IL) to see the Tributaries slam
Thursday: teach, plan, grade, sleep
Friday: teach, go to Bloomingon (IN) to see Erik

:-D

... must ... get ... coffee ...

I criticize everyone for it, yet I fall victim to perilous thought every once in a while... especially when I can't sleep and I've been listening to too much Sufjan Stevens ( Read more... )

Hello old friends. It's been a while ( Read more... )

Finding something to laugh about every day is becoming easier than I thought.

My juniors and I were joking about bad pickup lines today. I'm sad to say they had better ones than I.

One student to another: Jay, if you were a booger, I'd pick you first.

One student to me: Miss Samsa, life without you is like a broken pencil. (pause) Pointless.

I actually know damn all
about it, but I've heard
that every word in Arabic
has at least three basic

meanings; it means
what it normally means; it means
its complete opposite;
and every single word

has something to do
with a camel.
So here; I mean what I say;
I mean what I do not say;

and every single word
has something to do with you.

Me: (speaking to a specific student) You haven't done anything today ( Read more... )

One of the things that has gotten me through the past couple of weeks is Zeppelin III. I swear, that album can cure any bad mood. Which brings me to my next top 5. What are your...

( Read more... )

On Friday, I stepped in the middle of two escalating fights and a student asked me, in front of the whole class as the other students were working on group work, how I would feel if he jumped out the window (the first week of school, this student wrote about suicide in his journal and I had to take care of it then, as well ( Read more... )

Falling ( Read more... )