Throwback Week

Taking a day off from school partly to hang out with Paul before he returns to Hawaii and partly to get away from the youngsters for a moment.  It’s been good to spend time with the old buddies, playing basketball after work and drinking and video games and Taco Bell.  Ever since coming back from [...]

Ain’t Too Tired To Blog

Or drunk either.  DFancing at clubs aleays seems to work the same way for me…there’s my persistent hesitance to dance cuopled with me downing beer anfter beer after drink after drink and “psyching” myseldf up to get out there.  THen, I hear a song I like, get out there and STAY out there for only [...]

Berkeley Pad

I’m typing from my sister’s apartment in Berkeley while she’s on vacation.  There were only certain plants that were supposed to be watered but I watered them all because I completely forgot which ones.  I wonder how to describe her…grounded yuppie?  Advanced hipster?  Her radio is tuned to NPR and she has soy milk and [...]

Squeezed for Money

In Tahoe, after being down a little bit more than I was willing to be, I made a recovery during my last run at the $5 Blackjack table to finish at -$100 for the weekend — perfectly acceptable.  I had not anticipated the various upcoming charges, however.  $90 for the adult basketball league, $305 to [...]

Montori Wedding

Paul and Jen’s wedding in Tahoe today was an affair small in scope but magnificent in its execution. They were gracious enough to move the event from Hawaii to Lake Tahoe so that family and friends could actually attend, and the presence of so many decent and warm people who deeply care about the [...]

On A Mission

I’m 99% certain I won’t be traveling to China to teach this Fall.  However, a position in Busan in South Korea is becoming a more likely possibility each day.  Still need to procure the appropriate documents, including a criminal background check (does an arrest warrant related to unpaid parking tickets count?) and transcripts from college [...]

Ho Ho Ho!!! I’m Back!!!

My difference in moods from pre-summer school delight to mid-summer school agony has been palpable.  But I’m not going to write about that tonight.  Instead, it’s about doing things to take my mind off of the kids for once…or twice…or forever.  Saturday contained that sort of event.  Captain E called to ask me about it [...]

I Just Like Saying It

This has nothing to do with anything, but Stacy is the coolest name ever.

The First 48

Two days of summer school complete at my old high school and 24 days to go.  I know it’s not necessarily fair to compare the 8th grade students from the neighboring, “good” district I taught at during the regular school year to high school students in summer session; after all, the 8th graders were younger [...]