There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. - G.K. Chesterton
My friend Danny lives across the street from one of the local high schools. This school was the rival of our old high school, and that rivalry has always been a pretty big deal. Well, if you went to school either of those to places. If not, you don’t care.
So last night [...]
Or…watching…
I try to be careful in what I say…especially when I’m kidding around. You might not believe that. But I do. In high school I would joke around, oblivious that things I might be saying in jest would actually either get on people’s nerves, or hurt them. After 11 years, I [...]
It’s been almost 7 years. I remember working a full, 8 hour day, going home to eat dinner with Sarah, then off to Rob’s studio to work on our album until about 3 or 4 in the morning…Three hours after I would wake up and repeat the process.
One of the first things that comes [...]
After being in the classroom a little bit, and knowing what I know of history…I pretty much agree with a lot of this.
An excerpt:
So now it is all about instant gratification, in short, “Is it fun? Will you have my attention? Do you like me?†Then I will learn.†And this is where I [...]
This time of year reminds me of a multitude of things. One of these is the misery of my old job in the warehouse.
Specifically, how the sun would be barely up when I got to work, and would be down when I left in the evening. For several years I had a nice [...]
Alisa has procured the Pumpkin Ale. I now declare that fall has officially begun.
I have napped quite judiciously the last two days. Even so, the Ale is luring me once again into slumber. I find that the sleepier I am, the longer I take getting to bed. As if I want [...]
I believe this was, quite possibly, the most uneventful, emotionally flat-lined, day in a school I have ever had. Three classes of physics. Great kids that watched the video (listening to Candice Bergen narrating for 50 minutes about the universe is marginally entertaining at best…the first time) and then worked dilligently the rest [...]
Again with the subbing.
Tomorrow I’ll be back at the school I was at last week. I’m not dreading it as much as I was last time. The kids seem really good, and the classes are only 50 minutes long. Apparently all I have to do is show a video and [...]
I have yet to secure the fish. Or wash out that magic bowl.
I did, however, notice that today held the bluest sky I’ve seen in four months. With the high humidity and extreme heat, the days have been really hazy. Today was very cool…and the sky was a beautiful crisp [...]
How do you describe a mood? Allow me to undertake this difficult task. I promise to miserably fail at adequately crystallizing my thoughts on what seems to be one of my recurring themes.
It seems that often I come to a point where I don’t want to do anything, but I don’t want to [...]
So, I had an idea. Actually, it wasn’t my idea at all. It was a friend of mine’s dad, but I’ll claim the idea nontheless.
I’m going to try to get a little income from doing customized comic strips for businesses. You know, for newsletters or if a company wants to give people [...]
Dear Nursing Mothers,
I understand that you might feel like you’ve lost your sense of modesty going through the process of childbirth. But this isn’t about you. It’s about everyone else. We all talked and we’ve decided that we don’t want to see you breastfeeding in public. If that’s a demand that [...]
Each day it’s the same. I head to take shower and get dressed, and go to pull some boxers out of my drawer, then I proceed to open the wrong drawer. Every. Single. Morning. For the last 6 years.
In my defense, I have an armoire. As such, it [...]
The grass is mowed. Hewn down by the force of my iron will and razor sharp wit. That is, if wit were physically razor sharp and powered by a combustion engine. Which it may be, if we operationaly use “wit” to mean “lawnmower”. In fact, let’s do that. Right now [...]
1) I don’t want to hang around his unruly kids.
2) He won’t get married until people who want to commit incest can do so legally.
See what I’m talking about here.
Well, it’s official. I’ll step back into the role as substitute teacher tomorrow. Am I looking forward to it? Substituting is hard. So I’ll give you a resounding “not terribly.” This will be the first time I’ve subbed in a school that’s on the traditional schedule, however. Five, Fifty-minute [...]
It seems that the tighter summer closes it’s grip, the shorter it can hold on. After strangling us with a heavy dose of heat, Fallish weather arrived right on the heels of September. Yesterday I meandered through the woods under a cool, soft gray sky…cool enough to keep most of the flying residents [...]
Today in church I was attempting to focus on the words of the praise songs, when we came to a line that got me to thinking, which is a dangerous enterprise no matter how you slice it.
“I’ll never know how much it cost, to see my sin upon that cross.”
This may be nitpicky and of [...]
I don’t know if there is anything quite as good for pure entertainment as a soccer game played by 3 and 4 year olds.
My nephew played his very first organized game this morning. A couple of kids ran semi-aggressively to the ball, kicking it in the right direction. Others, like my nephew, were [...]