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June was indeed horrifyingly awful. Thus far July is turning out a bit better. Lots of excitement, friends, action, adventure, foreign exchange students, men with rather impressive biceps...yes, it is all turning around ( Read more... )

Could June get any fucking worse?

Do not answer that.

I had a lovely weekend in Kentucky with my friend Elisabeth and her friends and then EVERYTHING WENT HORRIBLY WRONG ( Read more... )

We have a bulletin board at work called "Adults to Avoid" and it's what you would expect, pictures and descriptions of criminals, pedophiles, sex offenders, 99% men who are now out in the world. One of my little delinquents was cleaning around the area while I was coloring when she suddenly said, startled, "Hey! That's my mom's ex-boyfriend." I ( Read more... )

Rachael and I have started a blog. I am not sure how this is going to work out, but for now it is up and running. We'll see how long it lasts.

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Friday at work I was the only one around all day because my boss was out at a conference. It was quite a long day, as there is no one around until the kids come after school ( Read more... )

I took a job with a single working mother who needs someone to come to her house at 6:45 a.m. feed her kids breakfast, get them ready for school (pack lunches, get dressed, all that) and then take them to school. Why would I ever accept a job that requires me to work with children AND be awake at 6 a.m. for extremely low pay? I don't know, ( Read more... )

When I first started my job with Volunteers of America, I spent a lot of time in the mornings looking professional and straightening my hair and wore contacts and makeup and generally put effort into how I looked. But as the weeks went by, it just seemed so pointless. I work with kids. Kids are dirty. And don't really care all that much how nice ( Read more... )

I do not understand this computer problem that I seem to have been born with. I am not reckless with my electronics. I don't look at porn on the internet. I do not press all the buttons at once for fun to see what will happen. So clearly it must be that God feels the need to punish me in this way. I can't tell if I've done something offensive ( Read more... )