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General Insanity
In no particular order, over the past four months I have: been working with students who are trying to get into college (I’ll talk about why that is important in a bit), visited Fall River, started a new teaching job, gone on a few dates (one of which was particularly amazing), been visited by my aunt, uncle, and my first cousin from my dad’s side of the family, my cousins and great aunt on my dad’s side, and my first cousin from my mom’s side of the family, sprained my ankle and knee, spent time on the Santa Monica Pier, helped a friend plan her wedding, found out what my…
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A reunion, kids, a job, birthdays, and a wedding = crazy fun
So, a couple of updates for folks. This has been a month of things changing for me. My old college friends have changed in many ways and in other ways, are just the same. My kids are growing up on me while I’m far away from them. Some are making money as they follow their dreams of becoming musicians. Others are pursuing math, theatre, dance, psychology, cosmotology school, motherhood, fatherhood…the list goes on and on. I got my first sunburn in fourteen years (man are they itchy…how do people put up with these things on a regular basis?) One of my closest friends has gotten married to his girlfriend of…
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Guerrilla Writing
So, someone asked me the other day about my productivity level. Then they said, “Well, you’re young, that helps.” I half-jokingly responded with, “No, I have insomnia, that helps.” They laughed. I laughed. We laughed. Laughter is good. But I thought I would take a minute to actually write out how I go about my life for people. The first thing to know is that only two things will get me up in the morning: teaching (happily) and emergencies (not-so-happily). Therefore, my schedule is a little weird to most people. I’ll write out an average day with not teaching and one with teaching. Average Day Without Teaching: Get up @…