the ex.

make a wish.

My first year of teaching has been treacherous. I wish it was June 17th (aka the last day of school).

Make a wish.

six

By now I'm sure most of you have been making your blog rounds and learning all types of weird shit about your fellow bloggers. Like how 1/3 is afraid of shower heads, don is actually a lesbian and brittany is somehow mysteriously sick all the time. And thanks to Ieshia, 1/3 and Brittany I guess now it's time for me to spit out six random quirks about myself. Oh and here are the rules...

Who comes up with these things??

* share six non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself
* tag six random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs
* let each random person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog



1. If you can't spell, you suck! Spelling errors annoy the hell out of me!

2. I am the most forgetful person on the planet. Not really a good trait to have as a teacher.

3. I love GAP's short sleeve stretch tees. My collection is now up to 12. My goal is to have an entire months worth.

4. Something about seeing a girl in Jordans turns me on. I love it! But they gotta have small feet. There's nothing sexy about a girl with size 10 Jordan's on.

5. I hate my name. I remember when I was young I wanted to have my name legally changed to Andre. Now looking back on that idea, that was completely stupid. I like having a unique name, I just hate repeating it three times to someone after I introduce myself. Now that I think about it, I wonder if I would have been a totally different person if I did change my name?

6. I have a really bad back. I'm a 28 year old stuck in an 80 year old mans body, for real. I need to go to see the doc but I'm scared of chiropractors.

I'm breaking the rules because I think everyone has already been tagged.

random.

Woke up and saw this on VH1 Soul. If I told you a guy with a unibrow was considered a sex symbol would you believe me??

dc>sc...

The blog break is officially over. I couldn't stay away too long. I miss the comfort of these margins here at my little corner of the internet. Blogger must be fighting a bout of "gay fever"(c) KB because they haven't been notifying me when I receive comments.

Anyway, the weather is finally heating up, so it's time to stop dressing in layers and boots and break out the white tees and kicks. I have been living in the DC area for the past 8 months and I can honestly say that I have loved every minute of it. People always ask "when are you going back home??" and I always respond the same way. "I don't wanna go back". I do get homesick from time to time but not to the point where I would consider moving back to dreaded South Carolina. And plus, moving back to SC would probably mean I would have to be subjected to living with my mom for a short period of time and although I love my mama, I damn sure don't feel like being woken up on Saturday morning to go cut the grass. Anyway, I started thinking about all the reasons why DC is that much better than SC, and while the reasons are endless, I have narrowed it down to three...


1. Money - Yes, it is true. The further north you go the more expensive it gets. But the flip side is that you make more money. As a teacher I make almost double of what I would have made back home. Which of course translates to me spending more money on more shit I don't need.

2. Things to Do - Speaking of spending money, I could literally go broke trying to keep up with all the concerts, shows, etc that come through DC. Every week there is something new to do. Considering that I come from a place where a Friday night is limited to three options (one of which is staying home), DC is the shit.

3. Diversity - Put it this way, of the 5 classes I teach, there is only one where white students are in the majority. And even in that class, the margin is slim. I've never been around this much diversity. Back home, it's black, white and lil Mexican. Here in northern Virginia, call a Salvadorian, Mexican and you might get killed.

Honorable Mention - Ethiopian Women - Ethiopian women are some of the most beautiful women on the planet. Sometimes their food looks like cat shit on a plate (I tried it and its actually not that bad), but their women gotta brother wanting to take a trip to the Motherland.

subliminal.

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confession.

I have been LURKING, and not commenting.

SHAME on me.

blog break...

I haven't been in the mood to blog lately so, I'm taking a BREAK...

be back later.

the picture...

Teenagers do dumb shit and it didn't take me becoming a teacher to realize this. I have a litany of my own personal experiences reflecting that fact. As a teacher I have been able to revisit a lot of the dumb shit I did as a teen through the lives of my know-it-all (naive) students. Of all the dumb shit I did I'm not sure if this latest story matches up.

So I walk into class and all of my male students run up asking me, "Mr. Jenkins, did you see the picture??" Their devilish grins immediately signaled to me that this "picture" may be something I don't want to see; that is if I want to keep my job. With a kool-aid smile plastered across his face, one kid asks me "do you like melons, Mr Jenkins??". Ok, now I know I definitely do NOT want to see this picture. It turns out that some 14 year old aspiring Paris Hilton took a pic of herself topless with her phone and sent it to her boyfriend. Unfortunately for her, after the inevitable break up, the EX-boyfriend sent the pics to his friends. And of course, they sent it to their friends and now the pic has reached my school and most of the schools in Fairfax County. Poor girl.

My kids found it hysterical until I brought them back to reality and schooled them on the child pornography laws in VA. It's all fun and games until you're looking at a federal charge for possessing child pornography.

Teenagers do dumb shit.