Monthly Archives: December 2005

Happy New Year!

I hope every­one takes it easy tonight, go wher­ever you are going and stay there. Don’t drive home, even if you’re sober. The drunk dri­vers always make it out of a wreck unscathed, it’s every­one else who ends up maimed or killed. You know I’m right. So.. I’m not nor­mally the type to make New Year’s

Look What I Made For You in Shop Class!!

It’s Kim’s birth­day and we took a few stu­pid pic­tures tonight. Her real fam­ily cel­e­bra­tion is on Fri­day (her dad worked tonight) so my par­ents hauled us off to the finest eat­ing estab­lish­ment one can hope to be treated to on their birth­day: That’s right, we went to Fud­druck­ers. I don’t eat burg­ers all that

Forced Insomnia / Norfolk Coffee and Tea Co.

I hate going to bed and I hate get­ting up. Obvi­ously, my life is a mess. On a related note, last week Rel­a­tive Dave tipped me to Nor­folk Cof­fee & Tea Co. and now I have yet another fine local shop from which to pur­chase qual­ity cof­fee beans. Appar­ently this shop has been on 18th St.

Listening

Some­times as a music teacher, one finds them­selves falling into the famil­iar pit­falls of their stu­dents. I am the worst offender of the “do as I say, not as I do” teach­ing phi­los­o­phy. I am try­ing hard to over­come my per­sonal hang-ups in order to be more of the “lead by exam­ple” type of instruc­tor,