I signed a lease in Mt. Vernon yesterday! / :with love and squalor

:with love and squalor

i am a pre-k teacher at a failing school in inner city baltimore. once before this i was a contemporary critical theory/phenomenology/critical race theory student at a cozy little school that taught me enough to make myself into an existential nihilist, but didn't teach me how it's possible to stay alive in the world that way. sometimes i post about that stuff.

other times i post about the mountain goats, the failure of public education in america, baltimore (we have a love/hate relationship), atheism, good politix, and the basic disappointments of the human condition.

i've started to amass a bunch of education followers which is GREAT! and welcome! but just know that this is my personal blog and some of the things i post on here are unrelated to education and may be explicit or not kid friendly in some way (personal stuff, poetry, LGBTQ stuff, critiques of capitalism and the state, etc.).

# July 14, 2012 / 12:26PM 7 notes

I signed a lease in Mt. Vernon yesterday!

Hampden, I will miss you, and a small part of me will always love you. You are the strange, fibrous, probably lop-sided patch at the top of the quilt of Baltimore that really throws the whole thing together, ya know?

On another note, everyone says their city is like this, but is there REALLY a city that is more of a ~*~city of neighborhoods~*~ than Bmore? Me moving to Mt. Vernon probably says a lot about me. Was Hampden not cool enough for me? Was Hampden too cool for me? Hm.

mount vernon hampden baltimore moving!