August 2011
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So like. While driving home from work—the first day of teaching elementary school—I pass college freshmen on their first day of classes too. The eager, preppy-douche hopkins kids (weird to think i am now part of that mysterious “non-undergraduate” population here… hello masters degree), the nondescript UBalt kids, and the precious MICA hipsters. And all I am,...
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call me Ms. A
I love the first day, man. Everybody all friendly an’ shit.
-Namond Brice, The Wire, season 4 ep. “Homerooms”
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as a new teacher, it’s prob a bad sign that i feel like a 5 year old on christmas morning having just heard schools are canceled again. 178/180 to go… that’s plenty!
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@caitlin & savannah
i don’t know to leave comments on tumblr. how do you guys do that?!?!?
anyway, no, my kids won’t be saying the pledge. there’s no flag in my room so i take that as a sign they don’t have to. it is probably illegal not to, but there’s more important illegal shit going on in bcps for the authorities to worry about.
maybe when the school...
City schools closed tomorrow! Another day to prepare which is wonderful because I really need to get my shit together. I cannot BELIEVE school starts tomorrow. I am so not ready!
TFA is giving us all free iPads which makes me regret buying my own, but it’s good because I’m going to use the TFA one for teaching and give my personal one to someone else to have. I am so excited to...
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my para told me the last time there was a hurricane in baltimore, people rode boats down pratt street.
god i hope my school doesn’t flood. but considering it was already flooding last week when it wasn’t even raining for no apparent reason……… i don’t have my fingers crossed.
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ughhhhh
seeing tumblr posts by people who just advanced past the first round of tfa’s first application cycle of 2012 just made me want to throw up a little because it reminded me of this quote from the onion:
“Oh, I’d say we burn through a hundred or so ethnic-studies majors each year,” said Anderson, pointing to a series of charts showing the college-major breakdown of TFA...
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foolproof ways to tell my boyfriend is trolling
he accuses me of using the word “faggot”
drunk on a wednesday during the work week.
i’ve made the biggest mistake of my life.
(not getting drunk.)
shoulda stayed in school foreva
always forget i’m still technically a “student” getting my “masters” “degree” because “classes” haven’t started yet.
want 2 go back 2 undergraduate.
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reliving my senior year through private blog posts
…jeeze
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“It’s been two years since I let you go,
I couldn’t listen to a joke or rock ‘n...”
– lady gags (via phuturetents)
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oh fuck it
the real world sucks
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all these updates on facebook about being back at src and shit have helped me spiral into a legitimate identity crisis. what am i doing?
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“Feel the future kicking in your womb.”
– The Mountain Goats. Elijah, The Coroner’s Gambit. (via badasswolf)
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i finally have internet again. just in time to do all the things i couldn’t wait to do any longer. which is pretty much just download season 4 of the wire and all nicki minaj songs.
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First drunken argument with my brother in our new apartment and it only took 3 nights of being roommates. This one was about how my parents bought him, when he first moved out, every piece of furniture/kitchenware/shit he could possibly need, and how they bought me, when I first moved out, nothing, and I’m sleeping on the floor and I’m living out of 2 suitcases and a giant Tupperware...
impotence
Resentment is eating all the poison and hoping someone else dies from it.
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It’s pathetic what I’d give to have my old life back right about now
(even though you were in it)
I haven’t had Internet in weeks
I work 20 hour days
I have no furniture
I’m sleeping on the floor
I’m poorer than I’ve ever been
I can count my friends on fingernails
My house has ants
My house also potentially has a ghost
It’s 100 degrees, at...
i just deactivated my facebook because f everyone. i am an adult and i’m not going to be forced into talking to anyone i don’t want to talk to anymore.
What we wish Obama had said →
greenstate:
The stimulus debate
What Obama said:
It is absolutely true that we can’t depend on government alone to create jobs or economic growth. That is and must be the role of the private sector. But at this particular moment, with the private sector so weakened by this recession, the federal government is the only entity left with the resources to jolt our economy back into life.
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pattern pipe dreams
slow motion mistakes.
i’m trying to remember a time before guilt tasted like guilt
i am shrouded in shame now. i think i was just trying to be responsible,
undertaking the burdens of my ancestors but now i have no idea what the fuck i am doing and in fact i become more sure by the day i am just making this problem worse than it already was.
innocent black faces stare up at me
a...
