nadir

i am now on the prowl for new employment come july...

i can not stick it out in a systemt hat is built to fail.
my principal and i got in an arguement last year about how the students are expected to fail. i said they were not, can not if we teach them right.
it boiled down to a shouting match.

i now know...
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i am: a school teacher, 99% vegan (would prefer 100% but sometimes you never know and perfection does not exist), a beer snob, a music snob, patient (though no idea how it developed), cynical's definition in the dictonary has my picture and sarcasm's says see cynical,

i enjoy: my cat, the fall: the best season ever, math problems that warp the brain, baseball -- as...
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my month off this summer made me seriously forget how tired teaching makes you

i am not sure how long i want to continue to teach -- but it will be here in my current school for as long as i last

but i do not know what else to do

i did the law thing for awhile, but got sick of sucking corperate dick...
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i am finally getting settled with the new school year
my new kids

its wierd but i have an afinity to them that i only had to a few last year

today i found myself explaining how to write with such errie acuracy that i thought i had been possesed by some e.b. white clone

its actually coming along easily, i just hope it flies...
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seventeen
that's the age i remember the best, one decade ago

every thursday, stright from school to the comic book store, for all the new releases.
i had a full time job then plus school
and wound up spending 3/4ths of my paycheck on comics

fridays were real bad days back then
i was ever so sleepy, i hardly got any sleep trying to read...
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i am seriously on edge.
9-11: the anniversy is weighing hard on me

i saw it first hand and up close last year.
i saw it out a window and also saw it through the faces of 34 sixth graders.

this is what happened

I moved to NYC to teach last year. I half thought I was crazy at the time, but on the 4th...
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so school started on thursday

i have a rockin new class, much further ahead than my class was last year at this time, whihc means that i will be able to teach more new stuff and not review as much

this is wonderful to me

it also means that i will have to work harder to keep up with these crazy brainiacs
but that is...
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so i have been part of the vacation class for just less than a week now

i feel like an unemployed bum, slacker type -- but is so refreshing

i have seen many films, been to a play, slept in a read about 6 books already -- no joke

that and the weather in brooklyn is fantastic, i just shoved my head out of my...
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so in 4 days i will be free fromcollege comitments...
oh how i savor the day
one month till school resumes
what ever shall i do with my time:

montreal
going to see beck
read my own books
sleep late
cook up a storm -- yum veggies
see movies at 12:45 shows, both middle of the day and nights
nyc is the place to be...
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since this is the first time i am here, let me say a few things ablout myself

i teach 6th grade in crown heights brooklyn -- for those that do not know, this is inner city gheto area. and it is not as bad as anyone would think
yes, there are days that suck, but you gotta keep thinking of the kids... the kids man...
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