Disco Shower

So the light in our bathroom has been broken for about a week now. What had at first been merely replacing a burned out light bulb, I then proceeded to complicate by trying to screw in a new bulb with the switch accidentally in the “on” position. Ka-pow! Nothing like a little “home-improvement” gone astray [...]

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Sedate saturdays

Woke up, decided to walk to Starbucks for some quiet reading time ( I miss Coco’s). There was some sort of autograph signing going on outside of a building next to Starbucks. Hundreds of teenagers lined up in the hot sun. A table with two people and the banner, Super Star underneath them. Too bad [...]

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Poetry oh-noetry

Vacation Trip Jennifer is Sick Hides inside Drinks some wine First day of school… I thought I was done with this crap? Maybe that doesn’t rhyme, but then again poetry was never my thing, my thing was Victorian Literature, and all things written  by dead old white men. As Pat knows about my diatribes against [...]

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Been a bit MIA. A lot has been happening since Thursday. Friday I went to work and watched Keith the other English teacher all morning. Apparently the class I watched is the pre-K that I will have as kindergartners in a week. I am prospectively teaching one kindergarten class and two 2nd grade classes. The [...]

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我不知道如何閱讀。

Today I had my first….oh shit, I can’t read experience. I mean I haven’t been able to read characters in the past either however I’ve always had Tina to offer suggestions of what’s on the menu, what that sign says etc, but the past 3 days I’ve been adventuring out by myself, since Tina has [...]

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