stinkyfj60

I think I have a cold... my body is stressed from all the shit going on: teaching license, MFA work, moving, custody battle brewing...

I went to a cool cabaret in Seattle last weekend called Barnstormer. I think they are trying bring back that type of thing. Lots of visual art, and performance art. It was on from 6pm to 2am. I think we got...
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yesterday, i took students to see our local college's production of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet. Good production with some interesting choices (Shakespeare's language, modern costume and set, a percussionist on stage giving mood and texture, modern style fight scenes). the students that i took really enjoyed it and talked about it heavily when we got back to the school.

the students i didnt take? oh...
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At the end of this month? I will be moving to Seattle. At the end of this week? I will be visiting Seattle.

Today, I woke up to snow. This is so needed here, it is brutal dry this year and the winds have been blowing the topsoil from the potato fields everywhere. We need as much precipitation as we can get!

Yesterday, I stayed...
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I met with volunteers from Hospice two weeks ago asking people to join me in writing workshops. Of the people I met, 3 or four said they would be willing to do it and wanted to wait until after Easter weekend. I sent out two emails trying to set up the group; I heard from one

i hate stuff like that.

i will have to...
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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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