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"Larry"

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:19:00 -0400

I work at a mid-school right now…have been for a couple months now. I always get on the cases of students who go around talking smack about one another and what not, or if they’re out of control. It was just today that I remembered how small the worlds of mid schoolers can be and how they can grow exponetially in the course of a class period.

When I was a mid schooler, we had a classmate who had hanged himself accidentally, and it made our world grow a bit. We met new people, we learned how to console the loss and how to pick ourselves back up and dust off. Two years later we had a classmate diagnosed with cancer, and again our worlds grew a bit more. Things that were supposed to happen to adults were happening to us, so again we learned something new about ourselves; that we could band together as a school and hold fundraisers to help a cause, and our worlds grew much bigger. Then the student passed away, and we learned that nobody is given a promise on how long your stay here is, and our world grew.

Today in one of my classes I had students crying, and I found out that their world was about to grow as well. “Larry” was diagnosed with cancer. Terrible as it was, it was nice seeing my students who usually can’t stand one another learn to console, and grieve, and learn that their world is much bigger than the walls that surround them 8:00 to 3:00, Monday through Friday; though I am very saddened to hear the news that another 14 year old is having to grow up so fast in so many ways, I am equally as happy to see students put issues aside and begin learning what it means to be compassionate and lean upon one another for strength and support.

A very meloncholy Ma’hogany

I saw this on my favorite TV show, “How I Met Your...

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:51:00 -0400

I saw this on my favorite TV show, “How I Met Your Mother”. “Life is a dinner and old age is the desert.” It comes from the mantra of detective Murtaugh in the Lethal Weapon movies “I’m too old for this shit”. Of course the irony of it all was that Murtaugh kept doing all of the shit that he was too old to do. So here is the tip of my Murtaugh List.

Drinking til I throw up…..I feel way worse at 25 after a good bender than i did at 18, or even 21 for that matter. “Riiiiiggggggs! I’m too old for this shit!!!!!”

Popping my collar….Its always been pretty douchey, but even less forgivable as one ages. “I’m too old for this shit…”

“Peeling out”…screeching your tires for no reason at all is fun, when you don’t have to buy your own tires. “I’m gettin too old for this shit…”

Pulling an All-nighter….Red-Bull and NoDoz just doesn’t sound like an apealing diet…no matter how important the final “I’m WAY too old for this shit!”

This is beginning to sound a little too similar to Angie Tempura from bitchpleez, so next time I have some thoughts, I’ll get back to it.

while sitting in my first middle school classroom, as the teacher this time...

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:13:00 -0500

…i began asking myself pleanty of questions like “What did i do to substitutes as a student?”, and “how is it possible that ‘the creed’ is still invoked as a form of punnishment for being disrespectful to teachers and students?” and of course “will students always ask eachother the same trivial bs like ‘is black a shade or a color’ and will boys always wonder whether to love of hate the opposite sex?”. We can all talk about how kids are different today, and how its a whole new ballgame in the schools than it was when we were “that age”, but i came to the stark realization today that things are not all that different, and when qualifying kids behaviors we must try and ask ourselves what we were like at that age because chances are we weren’t that far off. Considering the realities that times and circumstances are vastly different than they were ten years ago, I think we may actually be able to say that the kids are better than we were…given the times and circumstance.

Ma’hogany

The second month of the year and no new post yet?

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:13:07 -0500

Don’t act like you’re supprised. If you followed my previous blog at all, a month and a half hiatus is nothing. I am an at will blogger…it doesn’t make much sense to me either. Since i last blogged not much has changed in the mind and life of Woods. The one real thing that happened is that i passed all of the background checks and screenings to become a substitute teacher, which i see as a huge step toward my future carreer in teaching. Its gonna be a crazy trip…i remember how terrible i was to subs, which makes me wonder what the hell i am thinking, however i will be in the classroom, which is pretty huge. Until next time, thats about all that is on my brain.

Ma’hogany

Bennett from “Well That’s Strange”

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 12:45:13 -0500

Bennett from “Well That’s Strange”

five and one half years...

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:00:52 -0500

…and who knows just how many gallons of red bull/vodka/bong water (not all together at once) i have graduated from the University of New Mexico. For those of you on the left coast, you may or may not recognize Rep. Joe Baca, he was our keynote speaker, and i think he may have thought he was back in the 43rd district of Barstow, because it was more about his achievements than anything else…what a crock of shit! Thanks for telling the graduating class of 2008 just how awesome you are…NOT!!!!!

Anyway, its good to finally be done and thanks to all my friends and family for all the support, red bull/vodka/bong water (not all together at once) that it took to get me to this point!

Ma’hogany

A few t-shirts...

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:25:55 -0500

That i thought were kick-ass/reminded me of some good TV/best video games ever, brought to you in part by Busted Tee’s.

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People never stop dissappointing me...

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:31:57 -0500

So durring the weekdays, i deliver Pizza for the first three hours of my day and prepare all of my favorite Italian dishes that i’ll never order again. Actually I have no idea where I was going with this after I wrote the title and gave a brief description of my job. Sorry for the dissappointment…yeah…I’ll get back to you all on this one.

Ma’hogany

YAY TUMBLR! YAY GRADUATING TOMORROW BY TAKING...

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:07:00 -0500

YAY TUMBLR! YAY GRADUATING TOMORROW BY TAKING “notes” LIKE THIS IN CLASS!!! YAY!!!!