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Proud Moment

Monday, February 1st, 2010
During my prep today, I took my usual walk down to the office to check my box for anything of significance.  Inside my box was the January 28th edition of Duck’s Illustrated Magazine, held open to an article about the Oregon’s  Women’s basketball team losing four games in a row .  At first, I was [...]

we’ve been gifted this island, we’ve been gifted this day

Saturday, December 5th, 2009
As of tomorrow,  five years ago, I stumbled into, accidentally found and blindly wandered into where I belong.  Absurd as it may be to find delight in marking a half a decade at a job, there are some sappy feelings and a whole lot of gratitude to be spread around for where I am now, [...]

Sweaters and Putty

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
Here’s this year’s school picture… as you may or may not have notice, I am wearing an awful sweater.  It’s not just any awful sweater, it is an extra-large woman’s knitted sweater with a split collar.  This isn’t to say I regularly wear the opposite sex’s clothing–this was a gag that Ricky and I came [...]

Faux Pas-palooza

Thursday, April 16th, 2009
Faux Pas: As a teacher, coming to school dressed strangely similar to a student Super Faux Pas: As a teacher, coming to school dressed strangely similar to two students. Double Secret Faux Pas Extraordinaire: The students are both girls… and the teacher is a dude.
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