ASHLEY, 22, CA via Baltimore
Remember? You unraveled in childhood till you were everything. By everything I mean everything . The unicorn puts its head on your lap; from there it sees the blurry edge. How am I so unreal & yet my thread is real it asks sleepily~~
Today I taught a lesson on The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. I had no idea how this would go over with 11th graders who weren’t even sure really who Ben Franklin was, and many of whom read on an elementary level.
THEY LIKED IT. THEY REALLY LIKED IT. Well, some of them liked it, and others were falling asleep because it was ten thousand degrees today and I have no A/C. But as one kid was handing in his work on the way out, he mumbled, “Cool lesson.” HA! They are so smart. I love them.
The Key to Dreams, René Magritte
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Florence and the Machine/ Postcards From Italy (Beirut cover)
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Love love love this. Now, going to bed after maybe the longest day ever. I have never appreciated sleep, or even the act of sitting down, so much in my life, as I do now that I’m a teacher.
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TOMORROW IS THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL
I’M FREAKING OUT
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs/ Maps
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I had a real real real bad day today. I’m seriously not prepared to start work in a week. I miss home. I miss my friends and my family and my old apartment and my old life, and my old job, and my old routine. I miss California weather. I miss feeling like I was good at something. I feel like I don’t even remember who I am. I’m tired.
I just made a to-do list that has 20 items on it. I just counted. 20! I would post a picture of the to-do list, but I can’t find the cord to my camera, because I’m not unpacked yet. So, I guess 21. Unpacking all of my belongings would be 21 on that list.
I have four more cards in my wallet this week than I did last week: My Johns Hopkins ID, my new bank card, my new credit card, and my BCPS teacher ID. I’m basically, all of a sudden, a totally different person.
In 12 days I will be responsible for the welfare of 80 teenagers.
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“CONCLUSION
Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage license. Indeed, the evidence shows Proposition 8 does nothing more than enshrine in the California Constitution the notion that opposite-sex couples are superior to same-sex couples. Because California has no interest in discriminating against gay men and lesbians, and because Proposition 8 prevents California from fulfilling its constitutional obligation to provide marriages on an equal basis, the court concludes that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional.”
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The court concludes that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional” is a beautiful phrase.
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Beyond myself
somewhere
I wait for my arrival
—Octavio Paz
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“Like investment bankers on Wall Street, senators these days direct much of their creative energy toward the manipulation of arcane rules and loopholes, scoring short-term successes while magnifying their institution’s broader dysfunction.”
— George Packer, The Empty Chamber (via syntheticpubes)
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Yesterday I read about a genetic disorder: the afflicted are driven to hurt themselves & those they love. It is, by all evidence, extremely rare—a single, inexplicable glitch in three billion bits of code. Case studies include men who thrust their hands into their mouths & bite off their own fingers. Some bite off their lips. They beg to be restrained. There will always be those who insist everything is getting better, even when we can’t discern it.
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mysticsister asked: ashley! how is teaching life? we'll miss you at clam most definitely.
HI. Teaching is awesome. I miss CLAM already. Hopefully I’ll be able to come back to the bay to visit sometime this year (a release party time perhaps?) I hope you have a dope senior year! Good luck!!
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