Back in NYC

I see faces and traces of home...
Back in New York City!
-Genesis

Going back to Manhattan for the first time since 2007! Taking Mum to see Glengarry Glen Ross on Broadway with Al Pacino (my Xmas gift to her.)

We'll take the train from Fairfield. Just like old times.

The past is the present is the future. 

winter is coming

I am done with the application for Teach America. I should hear from them some time around Jan. 17. So now, i guess i just play the waiting game.

1 week til Xmas. Where does the time go?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJqg_-wXnuU

Round and round

Oh, the wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'
I don't know where I'll be tomorrow 

-Journey

I am applying to Teach America, which is part of Americorps. I would work for two years in an at-risk school (most likely in Bridgeport, Waterbury or New Haven.) It would also be an alternate route to getting certified as a teacher. 

Shades of the time I spent teaching at the orphanage in Jamaica. Interesting how I wound up here again after all these years. But it's what I love to do. I would get paid, but once again, I would be with a non-profit organization.

It's comforting to learn that, at my core, I'm still the guy I was 22 years ago.

A Sad Day

Yesterday, as we all know, was a horrible day. Jim and Lisa's daughters went to that school when they were younger. Pat and Laura's two youngest children are K- 4 but go to a different school. SO everyone is okay, but as Pat told me, "I 'm going to know some of these kids, and their parents. And the kids will have known them too."

Sandy Hook is a section of Newtown. It's my favorite part of CT. It's a very nice and safe neighborhood. No one ever could have expected a thing like this would happen there. Plus, all my friends' kids were in lockdown for hours in their own schools. That must have been scary too. How do you explain what happened to your kids? I can't even explain it to you.

As a teacher, I can't even imagine that happening while i was teaching.

12.12.12.

By far, the best acts of the concert last night were Roger Waters, the Who and Paul McCartney. It was a great show.

This weekend we will go to Jersey and see Aunt Nunnie, who just turned 92. 

92?

Could you imagine? I cannot.

Looking for jobs. I sent an email to the prinicipal HS in Stamford, explaining why I had stopped going to class (cuz my company wasn't paying me) and he asked if I'd be interested in day classes next year, to which I said "Sure!" I would not have to be accredited to teach in a Catholic School.

Me being a full time teacher in a catholic school, now that's scary.

Burgers

Tis late on a Bender Tuesday and I am listening to MEDDLE by Pink Floyd. A great album. 

I hope you all are well. Last week it was 5 months back in the US of A.

I don't have a lot to say. Thing are normal... - ish. 

God rest me, merry gentleman.

One of these days i'm going to cut you into little pieces

-Pink Floyd


MMMMMmmm.... burgers!
-Homer Simpson

The Fog

It's a foggy day in CT, but luckily no zombies. I prefer the ones in Plants vs. Zombies anyway. 

Looking for jobs, chatting with a few friends in Madrid. Life goes on, time goes by. I'm looking out my window and seeing some thick freakin' fog. New England weather is insane. It's 50F on Dec 10th. I am listening to Djam Karet, a great prog band that does only instrumentals. Some eerie stuff. Goes well with the fog.

Crushed

The Seahawks beat the Cardinals 58 -0. it was an ass kicking of a lifetime!

As it ever was

All is well. Same as it ever was. Have a good weekend!

One of these doors...

Spoke to Aunt Nunnie today. She turned 92! She is awesome. We'll go down to Jersey and take her out to dinner next Sat.

I just FEEL 92. Looking for jobs is a pain in the buttocks. But the next door,  could be the door. Like THE CHAMBER OF 32 DOORS off of The Lamb by Genesis. 

Back inside
This chamber of so many doors;
I've nowhere, nowhere to hide.
I'd give you all of my dreams, if you'd help me,
Find a door
That doesn't lead me back again
- take me away.

One of these doors will be the right one. 1 down, 31 to go.

chamber of 32 doors

Power to the People

Well, twas quite the shake up where I work. After a few more lies, the owner said he will pay me, and then I'll be done with them. I threatened going to the Mass. Dept of Labor (the co. is in Mass.) and informed them yesterday I would not be going in til I was paid. Once I get paid, that'll be it. But it seems to have been quite a jolt to EduBoston. They were unprepared for someone to take a stand. So now - more job searching (O' joy, O' rupture!)

It is what it is - and whatever
-Rush

More job search music
Fly by Night
Caress of Steel
A Farewell to Kings

quitting time

time to take a stand

I quit working in Stamford today. They were always a month late paying me. And no clases at UNH this month (except subbing,) so... I am currently unemployed. It bites the big one.

So, I am in the middle of sending my CV all across the state of CT. 

I loaded every Rush studio Album, and a few live ones, and will listen to them one by one, picked randomly by itunes until the music runs out or I have found a job. It's gonna be a long day

15:34
Clockwork Angels
Snakes and Arrows Live
Hold Your Fire
Grace Under Pressure