We spent the day doing a bunch of team building activities. It reminded me of a first day of Aim High and not only because we were doing ice breakers and playing get to know you games but because I had the opportunity to at the end of the day to look out at the other educators that I'm going to be working with and it was good ( Read more... )

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KQED has been running a series of short films on immigration and documentaries with the intention of bringing the topic to the forefront of people's minds. Great idea, at issue here is their use of subtitles in the section that I saw ( Read more... )

On the 29th of June I jumped up out of sleep at 4am and I couldn't go back to sleep. I became convinced that I'd forgotten to do something or that someone in my life had died because those are the sorts of things that wake people up abruptly at ungodly hours in the morning ( Read more... )

So I've got a lot to say about what I've been doing for the last couple of months. I think that I'll keep it short and in list form. Anyone can feel free to ask specific questions about any of the list points and I'll try to flesh them out in the comments fields ( Read more... )

I walked into work today and there was a woman on the phone. She'd called to speak to me. C my co-worker explained that I'd literally just walked in the door and the woman said. I'll wait. This should have been my first sign, because usually when people hear you've just walked in the door they don't expect you to pick up the phone before you take ( Read more... )

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So I've been thinking about the story and trying to branch out and introduce new characters. We'll see how it goes, sorry this one was about a week late but these things happen.

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Maybe the little dog needs a name?

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