Micro-fiction based on real events. Lunch today was pot-luck. Pot luck is when everyone brings something and we share. Sometimes pot-lucks are coordinated where everyone brings a part of a larger meal. Like a taco pot luck where someone brings…
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Donnie Darko
This weekend while I was drawing the Sam the Eagle & Super-Grover comic, I was watching Donnie Darko. Yes, Another movie I have seen before. Interesting enough, Pete over at Delicate Adventures was having the same idea. Pete drew this…
Trainspotting
What a great movie. It was a lot more interesting than the Utah GOP contests, unless blood sport is your thing. If so, you’d like the caucuses more. I wasn’t allowed to vote of course. I’m not affiliated with any…
Tagged with: Apathy, Democrats, identity, Illustration, LDS, mormons, Movies, News, Orrin Hatch, Politics, Republicans, Trainspotting, Utah, Utah GOP
Posted in Movies
Posted in Movies
Substitute Teaching: FACS (WCJH 3)
Last time I was here, the pre-algebra classes I taught were completely silent. This time, Willow Creek was a very normal middle school. Chatter. Laughter. Giggles. Smiles. Cheekiness. I subbed for the kitchen skills teacher. Two eighth grade nutrition classes…
Tagged with: Alpine School District, Apathy, classrooms, Collaboration, Education, Institutions, students, Teaching, Willowcreek Middle School
Posted in Substitute Teaching
Posted in Substitute Teaching
Substitute Teaching: Science & Multi-Media (CMS 2)
It is always nice when I walk into a school and kids remember my name. “Mr. Guy, right?” “Who are you subbing for, Mr. Gillie?” “Hi Mr. Guile.” I got greeted by several students in the hall. I subbed at…
Tagged with: Apathy, Centennial Middle School, classrooms, Education, Institutions, Lame Lesson Plans, Multimedia, Provo School District, Science, Teaching
Posted in Substitute Teaching
Posted in Substitute Teaching
Substitute Teaching: US History (LPHS 1)
After teaching special-ed and middle school since New Years, I forgot how nice high school can be regardless of the snottiness of tenth graders. I taught only two sections. The regular teacher felt guilty about calling in sick, so he…
Tagged with: Alpine School District, Apathy, boston massacre, boston tea party, british navy, classrooms, Discipline, Lone Peak High School, students, Teaching, US History
Posted in Substitute Teaching
Posted in Substitute Teaching
Provo Post High School II part 4
Today is the last day of this assignment, but they asked me back for next week. I really love teaching these guys, but there are problems: Funding. The students have to work part of the day to make-up spending gaps.…
Tagged with: Apathy, Education, Institutions, Provo Post High School, Provo School District, Special-education, students, Teaching
Posted in Substitute Teaching
Posted in Substitute Teaching
Orem Junior High School I part four
I’m typing this as I watch the job board for new assignments. Hopefully I pick one up for Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday through Sunday, I’ll be in San Diego. Well, the class I was the most worried about, A1-Reading, went…
Tagged with: Apathy, At risk kids, Cell phones, Discipline, Education, Orem Junior high, Teachers
Posted in Substitute Teaching
Posted in Substitute Teaching
Vista Lake Middle School II
Vista Lake is a two year old MS that is already crowded. Other teachers told me that the building hadn’t even been started when the district knew it would not be enough to handle the growing Northern Utah County west…
Tagged with: Alpine School District, Apathy, classrooms, Education, English, Grammar, students, Teaching, Thanksgiving, Vista Lake Middle School
Posted in Substitute Teaching
Posted in Substitute Teaching
- Rhedd Copper
- And You Too Can Be an Ancestry Ninja
- Anti Wells Fargo Protests
- New Employee ID Badge
- The Ogre Says
- The Dynamic Duo: Planning for the Future (a quick sketch)
- Decline of Marriage & the Rise of Un-Wed Mothers
- Red Bull
- Pope Francis I
- Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In: The Debate
- Douglas Adams (03.11.1952 – 05.11.2001) — Happy Birthday
- Two Story Small House
- The Job Hunt Thus Far
- Where the Party’s At
- Small House
- John Kerry: Secretary of State
- Fox News: Megyn Kelley Makes a Point, but Who Cares
- Scotty
- Rex Reed: Obesity Bigot
- Liberal Paradise
