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This is a design for my job at High Tech High Chula Vista - Just a design - let me know what you think.

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8/31/08

Well I should do a video post. But I’m not going to. Too much effort and I really don’t have enough time today. Soon I am thinking, I can feel the urge to post in my bones. For the redord though, to make this feel kind of like a video post I am going to do the music of today:

Ghost Mice – Fire Fighter
Cold War Kids – Hang me out to dry

Listen and love.

What is up with San Diego?! I am in love with everything. Mostly I am really loving to be a teacher, this after all is what I cam here to do and I have been extremely lucky to do so. I forgot just how much I loved to teach over the summer and I am getting that rush back again everyday. My students are amazing. Gifted and talented. My faculty is like being in a perma-symposium of forward and progressive thinkers. I think we might, together, be able to reach the goal I have had since I started walking – I think we might be able to change the world. Or at least several thousand significant realities. Also some sub-realities.

San Diego is a city, and it retains some city basics. What SD does have is amazing weather. Never too hot or too cold. I am going to love getting used to this. I can feel my perspective shifting into a newer, greater arena that has always been just beyond my blind spot and it is exhilarating.

Long work days and new relationship building hours are happening and they are going well. The motions are motioning.

Updates to come and clarity may or may not be presented.

Snoogans ~ P

August 16, 2008

So it’s three days later. Man have I been busy. The biggest thing I am realizing right now is that I do not have enough time at all to say goodbye to everyone. Last night I went to Boston and got Lahnna’s bed from her apartment with Ian’s help. I hadn’t realized how hard Ian was going to take all of this, the moving farther away and it happening so quickly. We have been at least an hour or so away from each other our entire lives and this change is going to mean a big change in how we operate as friends. Change and evolution is what life is about. There is no death (aka the great end) there is only transmogrification into the next phase, the evolution of what is into what it has the potential to be. It is coming for me. Really it has been happening to me all along, I am just now learning how to accept it for what it is.

Today and tomorrow are packing days. The plan is that Lahnna and I will be driving out really early Tuesday morning. I wanted to leave on Monday, but Lahnna’s car couldn’t get serviced until the afternoon and I wanted to have that done before we left on the 3000-mile drive.

As soon as I can figure it out I will be posting images from the whole venture from the iphone. It has a Wordpress application that will allow me to do that.

Lahnna and I currently do not have a destination. We had decided that trying to get an apartment from out here was not a good idea. I mean what if it is sketchy or a bad deal and we are locked in for 6 – 12 months? So we are just going to drive out and hope we can find some couches or whatever to sleep on until we find a place. So if anyone knows anybody that can help us we would appreciate it.

The cool part, well kind of cool part, is that to save on money we are going to camp out during the drive, theoretically anyway. So today I have to go to triple-A and get the camping grounds listings and the routing plan.

It is good to be young and going through this. I am excited. Sometimes melancholy, but mostly, like 96%, excited.

August 13, 2008

I am moving to San Diego! I know it is crazy and I have been in talks for about a month now, but it wasn’t definite until this trip. In the next week and a half I will be packing my things and driving to SD from NH to start my new job as a Media Arts Teacher at High Tech High in Chula Vista (South of SD).

This is all very surreal and for a time I wasn’t even sure I was going to get the position due to a bunch of certification red tape. But last week I was told that thye wanted me to fly out to meet with the official representatives so that I could get a straight answer about when I would be able to start. So I flew to SD yesterday and found out that I would in fact be getting the position.

Lahnna, my girlfriend, will be moving out a week with me and we are both very excited to make this giant step in both of our lives.

I start teaching on the 25th. I am on the plane right now flying home to NH only to pack up and leave again ASAP. I feel as if I have been given a giant piece of luck and I am hoping I have the strength not to take it for granted.

More updates coming soon…

Music of the Day: Artist: “Dr. Dog” Album: “We All Belong”

Materials:
Paint (pre pick colors)
Guitar
Shower Curtain
Tupperware containers
Primer
Paint brushes (12/0 Princeton detail brush + acrylic larger brush)
Elmer’s Painter Markers
Water
Water Container
Rag
Sketchpad

Music of the Day:
“Time Will Bind us to the Guilt of Commitment” by Wax On Radio
“Jacksonville” by Sufjan Stevens

Materials:
Standard House Primer
House Paintbrush (Flat controllable edge)
Smaller house brush for cleaning edges
Sandpaper or foam sandpaper square
Something with a shiny surface

Music of the Day:
“The Squid” By Zox
“The Tallest Man, The Broadest Shoulders” by Sufjan Stevens