February 2011
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I am grateful that:
I am not starving.
I am literate.
I am employed.
I work doing something I like.
I make a difference doing what I do.
I do not live in a place where there are violent protests.
I have friends.
I live somewhere I like.
I am able.
I own a bicycle.
I live in a place with a public library.
Etc.
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I want to help start up City Year Barcelona
A daily siesta would do my service some good.
January 2011
After some non-stop club/pop music this evening, Pandora reeeeeeeeeaally hits the spot!!!!
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MLK Day!!
Very excited about EVERY PART OF IT!!!! Except for my wake-up time…
hitrecordjoe:
Ha! Glad this got found, I was so bummed it didn’t get allowed online. Oh, the law. Anyway, holy shit this feels like a long time ago. And since we’re on the subject, please indulge me to thank my friend Michael Rooney who worked tirelessly getting me ready to do this thing. He’s also the choreographer behind the 500 Days of Summer dance sequence, so yeah clearly he’s pretty...
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I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out...
– —Jack London’s Credo.
Also my new motto.
Just started using Goodreads
I REALLY like it.
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Collected!
In our office at school there is a big box of letters. A lot of letters. 369 so far and nearly another 100 coming tomorrow for us to retrieve on Monday.
These letters are from students, to someone special(to be revealed once the box is in the mail) we hope will visit us at Thurgood Marshall Elementary. Our students composed these letters with a few facts about why our school is the best visit.
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TED Talks: Charles Limb: Your brain on improv.
Jazz and freestyle v. Memorized music and how it effects the brain.
TED Talk: Lezley Hazleton on Reading the Koran.
A great perspective from someone who ACTUALLY read it.
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I miss...
Summer. A lot. Especially since I started reading “The Road” by Jack London, where he recollects sleeping overnight in a field and being warm enough to sleep straight through the night. IN CANADA!!!!
Also, I miss sitting in Rittenhouse Park with people and napping on the grass, bike locked in my legs to keep it safe. I miss when cold drinks were refreshing, instead of hurting my...
Dragon’s Lair!!
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Felt good to be back at school
First day back started off great.
Rode in on my bike. All 8.2 miles.
A student who cursed me out and and pushed me and was suspended for it right before break walked right up to me this morning and apologized for it. That felt amazing.
My students, though a tad rowdy were happy to see me. Even if we were missing a few.
Tons of teachers and elementary students were greeting me to tell me what...
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Too much gray yet…
It's been a while
Since I was last in full uniform.
A comic strip about literacy education!! →
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I was 21 years when I wrote this song.
I’m twenty-two now and I won’t be for long.
Haruki Murakami Challenge. I might have to do... →