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I just found out today that we have a student that is so poor he family lives in a shack with no wood or propane heat. This is in Colorado at 7500ft in an area that sees -20F temps in the winter.

They have electricity but no hot water. The boy cooks Raman noodle using the hot water from a coffee maker. He has to...
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I have always hated that Genndy Tartakovsky stopped making new Samurai Jack. I love that series and have been catching it on Boomerang lately. It's probably my favorite thing on TV ever... Well, maybe tied with Big Cat Diary that the Animal Planet did.

I love how Facebook lately gives me friend suggestions that are completely random: no common friends, school, city... Who knows.

I...
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only a month and a half or so before i move to Seattle. so crazy. i hope i find a teaching job there that is a private school or a situation where i can teach literature and writing. i have a lot of applications out there.

i have so much to do too. i have been liquidating my life trying to cut it down to...
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Windy season. Ugh. Non-stop wind for days and days and days.

I start some writing workshops at the local Hospice next month. It is part of a field study for Antioch University. Me and two other writers are doing these workshops with the theme of "home". and we are teaching writing as therapy. My friend Michelle is working this in a homeless shelter/halfway house, and...
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my fiance is in her yoga training today... i am at Essentials Baking Company in Madison, Seattle. a slow rain is coming down, and people watching is great. i need to write poetry.

we looked at neighborhoods today:Queen Anne, Fremont, Green Lake.

i like Capitol Hill the best still, but Madison plus those are still on our list.

being in a city is such a...
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I am sitting in the ONLY coffee shop that is in my town (I cant wait to live in Seattle).

The town in which i teach is cursed. Alred Packer (look him up) was in the town jail, a woman's remains were found burning in a barrel a couple of years ago, the body of an unknown black man were found in the hills nearby....
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i gave a student that i am trying intervene with my copy of Sherman Alexie's "The Lone Ranger, Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven".

he is this sophomore, stoner, intelligent, politically minded student with a heavy Indian background.

he took the book, started reading it that day. right before lunch, he stopped in my room and was telling me about it, he was so excited and...
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I'll be in Seattle this weekend! I cant wait to see my girl...

after the accident i avoided meds and went straight for massage therapy. that really helped with the whiplash. i can feel the muscles releasing. the bad thing? no jiujitsu still i am cleared to go now, but life keeps getting in the way of gym time.

and now i am sitting here...
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So 2010 was wild.

I managed to graduate with my bachelors, get published, get accepted to two MFA programs (i picked Antioch), almost lost my house (that was a battler), get a teaching job, meet THE ONE, get engaged, win a house makeover (shit my house looks good), was a in a car wreck and....

And 2011? I am on the way to pick up...
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i have this student that has just taken off with everything i have thrown at him in terms of literature. he is a sophomore, and is so conscious of social justice, and is always quick to defend the down trodden in school and the community.

i have shown him Alexie, Blake, Hikmet and a few others. students like him make teaching worth if for sure....
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Brief update:

Met a woman in CA when I was at school. I love her. She lives in Seattle, been a wild and great long distance relationship, and I will be there soon.

Teaching has been good, interesting, but good. The kids I teach are so sheltered, and there are only 31 in the whole high school.

Writing has been okay, the damned alternative teaching...
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the last month has been wild.

i was hired by a small high school to teach English, even though i dont have a teaching certificate, they will help me get my alternative license.

i went to Antioch for my first residency in the MFA program. i love the program.

while there i met a woman from Seattle. fell in love. it happened fast, but over...
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