So many people aint even realize I gots my Masters. Three times in the past 3 days there have been misunderstandings surrounding the fact that I am a Master….of Arts…….in…Education. I had someone at part of an interview not realize I had it when I’m applying there for a teaching job. I had a friend, and someone I garden for, who all had no idea. Not like I really want to flatter myself all that much, but it did reinforce my positive self-esteem.
Way to go! Not to mention way to go on sticking with helping out with this summer school thing. It’s at the school where I student taught at- and it is not only disorganized, hectic, and hot- but it is WAY more work than I thought it would be.
How am I overcoming working with languages I don’t even speak? Today I refocused my perspective on the job and started to think of it more as an internship. A paid internship. It will look great. And there are some good things about it. But it’s rough!
Job prospects are in the making. I’m still kinda poor, but overall, I know the bright horizon is out there. And if I just remember to breathe a lot, all the way down to my diaphragm, I will survive.
All simple enough, and some of them if you start doing it, it can become a habit.
Now enjoy the beauty of the earth by looking at these photos “The Sky From Above“, and keep that in mind as you make your evil dent on the environment less of an issue- we want our children, our future to have some amazing natural beauties to look at, right?!
I know I need to do all these things and more, and really think about the impact I have. My ecoprint is probably way too high still, and I try and do a lot of good things for the environment. Every little bit counts!
I liked a lot of the points in the article, from the main point about the internet giving us all of our answers to the finer points, like how the times have changed and how our thinking and reading has changed.
I know I would barely go to a library in this day and age when you can find so many quality, reliable resources online (much moreso now than 10 or even 5 years ago). There really are “scholarly” articles and research available with a few words typed into Google’s search.
I also found that I do less novel-reading than I used to. I don’t read as many books, but I read tons of interesting articles every day online.
This is what they say about Bruce Friedman, “who blogs regularly about the use of computers in medicine”: “His thinking, he said, has taken on a “staccato” quality, reflecting the way he quickly scans short passages of text from many sources online. “I can’t read War and Peace anymore,” he admitted. “I’ve lost the ability to do that. Even a blog post of more than three or four paragraphs is too much to absorb. I skim it.””
I have also noticed that I’m used to that short and choppy article style. A funny testament to this? I only made it through 2 pages of this article before starting to skim. How ironic is that!?!
If you liked rap when you were a kid, and you grew up in the early 80’s, you just might remember hearing this song…
Lord Tariq:
But if it wasn’t for the Bronx
this rap $%^& probably never would be going on
so tell me where you from?
PG: Uptown baby, uptown baby
PG: We gets down baby, up for the crown baby
…and there you have it. A (non) quality song about the game: money, h%s, violence, s$x, you know it. After revisiting the lyrics I no longer like this song, but…I’m not gonna lie, it still has that catchy sample. And so I will take that sample and make a song from it
Basically there’s a lot of corruption and filthy ish out there right now in society. A lot of messed up, racist, classist, money-grubbin corruption.
Similar to some themes in EBadu’s album New AmErykah. I think both albums do a good job of musically representing some bad stuff out there in the world we live in, without giving too much of a commentary. THAT’S JUST THE WAY IT IS. Obviously a lot of it is not good, but there are little suggestions here and there that might help you feel hope and inspiration towards doing something?!
But on the bright side the album is SWEET!!! Rising Down is amazing.
Guests include some awesome names I know and some I don’t: Common, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Saigon, Dice Raw, Wale, Chrisette Michele, and, for all of you Entourage fans- Saigon! Lovin it.
I’ve only listened to it once but it was soooo good I had to write about it tell you you should get it NOW.
