if you don't have the brooklyn what
then your store is totally fucked!!

gotta start shooting film again. srsly.

scratch that. gotta start shooting again. period.

first bloody fistfight in my classroom today.

is it june yet?

ohnoose: i feel like special ed teachers are treated the same way special ed students are


in some good news, two of my students passed their math test with flying colors. one girl got a 100% and another boy got a 97.5%. for kids used to getting 20s, 30s, and 40s - this is a huge deal. it was a computational test so we will see how they deal when it comes to word problems, but it's still a great confidence boost for them.


ta-da!

is this year over yet? tell me it is.

two weeks down.

i'm at bobst with jess, printing up a storm. i forgot to click "collated" on all of my print jobs, so now i find myself collating and stapling about 1000 pages - if not more.


yeah!!

someone decided i should teach the kids.

so that's what i'm doing.

waking up at 5am is bullshit.

it's 10:23. and past my bedtime. that is some bullshit.

JOB!

i has one.



TEACHING ON THE BEACH.

JOB!

i want one.

i'm done.

one week left of institute. 1 WORK-WEEK. 5 DAYS. 4 INSTRUCTIONAL DAYS.

then i get ten (10!) oh-so-precious days off.


much sleeping will occur. as will much pair-bonding with neenas (both human and feline). and much broke life, since there's no money to be had.



and maybe i'll get an actual placement soon! cross your fingers and hope it's an hour away from my apartment (or under!).


it's all happening, hahaha.

WHEN IN DOUBT
SWBAT IT OUT

i moved my whole life today!

well, i helped. my dad and his friend did most of the heavy lifting, and my mom did lots of cleaning.


i'm going to say that my new apartment is mildly ballin'. i ordered furniture, too! it's going to be cozy as fuck. i can't wait to actually live there and not in the bottom bunk of some st. john's dorm.

"forgive yourself at night and recommit in the morning."


first day of teaching.

awake in less than five hours.

i give the first lesson in less than eight hours.

45 minutes. first observation.

(only slightly) regretting spending much of the weekend being lethargic.




aquí voy.



i spent a huge chunk of (credit) money at home depot today buying paint, a bathroom sink, and flooring for my new apartment. it'll be done by saturday, at which point i start the two-day process of moving in. it's going to look so nice!

when it rains, it pours.

i'm at st. john's. i have a macbook pro. i have a single dorm room in a suite with eight girls (one bathroom). being in a college campus is weird. i escaped it to go to the city yesterday and today. i didn't ever think i'd be so glad to be around nyu, haha.

boot camp commences in less than a week.

'how to draw a bunny' is pretty convincing.

cornell capa passed away on my birthday. i didn't realize until just now.

catharsis maybe?!

time has difficulty moving along unless there's project runway around. i'm glad i postponed watching season four until now.

tonight yelena taught me all about "i"dentity and i reminded her that it's okay to write about 'sex and the city' in a serious academic paper. i think this demonstrates a difference between the quality of education that yelena's getting versus the one i just so happily ended - she writes about some incomprehensible no-nonsense nonsense like judith butler and during undergrad, the best stuff i wrote was about learning to like beer or how the l train makes me nervous.

great!


give me some money, ps.