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i am in the midst of making yet another career change. i took an apptitude test today and scored the higest in the actuary field -- so then i need to become one then start a fight club and....

funny really, but i found a website, beanactuary.com, that is painstakingly funny
(just watch the video)..

so now tha i am at home daily trying to...
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well i am back at school after a week off due to some umion stroke of genius....

but i got too used to my lesuire lifestyle and am paying for it today

a school day is just too constrictive and draining.

but my quest for 666 beers by june 26th appears to be a foregone conclusion as i am at 419 with a little more...
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userlame:
hello rorscharch
fenris23:
Niiiiice profile pic.
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i have had a real tough week...

on tuesday i was struck by a student in the chest. i was trying to keep her from using a broom as an over the head allet on another student, and when it was pulled away from her her arms and body momnetum forced their way in to my chest.

and i have a bruise to prove it....
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africa:
wow - thinking about that little girls life really puts my problems in perspective. life's just not as bad as it seems sometimes - you just have to learn to appreciate what you have.
dave_h:
Holy shit. Thats aweful.
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in october of 2001 my computer crashed
i lost all my information, nothing was saved elsewhere

my last copy of my thesis from college -- i still have a hard copy thank god...

every piece of fiction i had ever wrote

and most humbling of all 5 years of a daily journal

this journal is the first time i have even tried to post regularly...
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turnstiles:
cool, another nyc school teacher. what's up?
turnstiles:
i teach high school math in lower manhattan.
i have yet to be hit by a student....although i have been 'hit on' by a student....

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ok
so i have one more day with the kids till my holiday break -- noththing like seperation of curch and state when all the major christian holidays are the days off of government, schools, etc..., but at least her in nyc we get jewish days as well. but what aboutother religions... i guess they just get a big fuck you.
hey welcome to america......
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joyrider:
thanks for posting that thing about the detainments. i hadn't heard anything in the news about it.

i cannot believe what is happening in this country right now...
neon:
best profile pic ever!
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i am now done with all work for my thesis, i will have a masters in short order.

yet somehow i feel unfulfilled.
fell that i wasted the last 1.5 years (how exactly areyou to deal with a one half... it is not singular nor plural -- fucking hell). i should have been doing a phd in american studeis or history and not wasted time...
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catculus:
I'd say that it's plural because it's more than one even if it's not quite two.
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so i am a few hours away from having a masters in education...

just need to complete my paper on ebbets feild and how its creation and destruction were a metaphor for brooklyn's mental state... or some damn thing like it anyway.

so i have to complete this by monday of next week... strange really, i am about to have a degree even more worthless...
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catculus:
probably not healthy.
how is an education degree useless?
catculus:
hmm, I probably didn't need to hear that. I do however still have my heart set on teaching.
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thanksgiving is my favorite holiday of the year -- i mean fuck the puritin and native feast -- i am talking great vegan food, freinds from all over coming to eat my food and simple conversation

and then a day of protest: buy nothing day, always a favorite -- and i try to incorperate it into buy nothing month, only food and beer, and the...
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jessica:
Yummm! Hey, I liked what you wrote in Siren's journal about why you're a teacher. Go you!
kingskottie:
hmm. a watchman profile pic.

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so i changed my profile pic
the time is right for a left wing rorshach to inhabit the city and root out the filth of right wing crap

we are sitting in the broth of destruction right now
the bill of right slowly eroding, with champions calling for the chair for it

so i have gone from the dark knight of vengence to purger of...
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nadir:
notice how i did not claim the democraps would help

'republican or democrats/its all the same to me'

they serve big money and not people

i a sick of the onslaught of rights eroding in the name of national security, hell they have been ticking away since the founding fathers signed them into law

just a rant
catculus:
ooo! updates! biggrin
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so i am sitting here trying to finish a thesis project

is it so wrong to willfully make up data which has a basis in reality due to the fact i did not have time to log everything when it occured?

i am writing on how intrusions and disruptions in the school day create chaos and havok on the learning environment -- so i did...
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