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Month: July, 2008

secret admirer?

My roommate recently swapped his gas guzzling truck out for a fuel efficient Scion. Not 48 hours after making the purchase he left his car at an area Walmart and carpooled with a group of sports fans to the Ranger’s game. Upon his return, he found this affectionate letter on his car. There’s much debate [...]

the journey of job searching

I walked out my front door, shirt tucked in, pants a little too long and resumés in tow ready to show the local school district that I was undoubtedly the person they most wanted to fill their teacher vacancies. When I sat down in Skylar’s bucket seat and turned her key, a familiar and soothing [...]

50 things I like like

Nearly two years ago I authored a post creatively entitled “75 things that make me smile and/or things I like“. After a bit of thought, I decided that there was no way revisiting that topic was going to hurt anything. As such, I’m revisiting it under the new title of “50 things I like like”. [...]

Songwriting Club: Truck Driver Song

It’s time once again for another unveiling of a Songwriting Club product. This round’s topic was none other than “truck drivers”. I’ll offer two points before divulging the lyrics. Point 1: I know many (read: three) of you have requested that I record these songs and share them with the masses. I’ve decided that I’m [...]

all I need are minds for molding

As I endure this season of job searching (one of life’s evilest necessities) for a teaching position, a question of the teaching variety has come to my mind on multiple occasions that I thought I’d bring to the odfm table for discussion: What should I teach the public school, junior high population of [whoever hires [...]