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text book human being

About Me

No Thankyou: skinny pants, messiness, gold, 'smooth jazz', seafood, people who don't say 'bless you' when I sneeze, things that touch my neck, soap operas, qvc, dogs, gin, tequila, smelliness, laziness, artificial sweeteners, synthetic frangrances, skanky hos, ghetto blasters, movies in the drama section, static electricity, sports that involve men playing with balls, mean people, bees, drug induced sincerity, people that say 'chillax', people who think they might blow my mind or show me the light or play devil's advocate(ch!), rushing, low fat milk, manipulative asses, delicate impractical things, losing weight, U2, plastic jewelry, drag queens, sociopaths, seeing someone eat angrily, mirrors, waking up, twitter, psychological dissonance
More Please: being on the dean's list, cheese, quality time with myself, pickled anything, water, getting up early, knee socks, cats, red wine, wheat beer, shoes, libraries, summer, sunshine, fresh fruit, hard mattresses, social darwinism, children, Judy Garland, mothers, haircuts, scary movies, new shower curtain smell, freckles, cooking, being productive, sleeping, boots, Cockney accents, country air, mirrors, musical dissonance

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My Blog

why I want to teach

An instructor told us this story in class tonight, not a dry eye in the room. For a good while she was a prinipal at an elementary school in Durham with lot's of severely disadvantaged kids. As she ob...
Posted by on Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:57:00 GMT

Johari's Window

The Johari Window displays what we know about our selves, what others know about us, and the possible combinations of those conditions. I like it. I find the area of 'blind spots' to be especially int...
Posted by on Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:35:00 GMT

whoa

Many years ago, before everyone had a cell phone in their pocket and a laptop on their lap and a chip in their head I was in school and al of the kids wrote eachother notes all of the time. I used to ...
Posted by on Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:34:00 GMT

business, busyness..?

I stay so engaged in the mundane tasks that supposedly will take me where I am going that I don't often find time to enjoy where I am. I defy that saying that older people used to say to me when I was...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:12:00 GMT

poop poop poop poop

poop I messed my profile up.The thing told me that if I clicked on it, it would look better.Now the grass is all covered up by those awful cheap hotel room colors.Don't look at it. (I'm not going to.)
Posted by on Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:31:00 GMT

red scare

I'm writing a paper about proposed enemies of the US during the cold war blah blah blah... and I just found out that the word 'communism' comes from a French word 'communisme' which would indicate tha...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:34:00 GMT

whoops I did it again

Well, not whoops, it wasn't entirely easy. I made the Dean's List again. Yay me.
Posted by on Sun, 24 May 2009 20:50:00 GMT

a favorite

This has always been one of my favorites: Take this kiss upon the brow!And, in parting from you now,Thus much let me avow-You are not wrong, who deemThat my days have been a dream;Yet if hope has flow...
Posted by on Sun, 17 May 2009 09:41:00 GMT

helplessness

I have these dreams every so often, more in the past, less now. I had one last night. There will be this person wrecking things dear to me and slipping into my places and I feel like I'm fading away, ...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Apr 2009 07:03:00 GMT

neat

 Olny srmat poelpe can raed tihs. I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty  uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig  to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:31:00 GMT