Frank: Career News!

So I'm attending a career fair tomorrow in Boston. There will be over a hundred schools there and they have a list of what schools have what vacancies. So I'll be able to hunt for a specific schools with openings in English or Religious Studies. I passed my MTELs so I can get my license to teach in public schools if I need to. Hopefully I'll get some solid leads on a job. I've done a lot of work with my resume this past week, the Career Center has been a huge help with that.

Besides career stuff, I'm in my last full week of classes. By Tuesday, I'll be done with classes and basically just have a bunch of papers and one final exam. Then we have a week off, Senior week and then graduation. It'll be strange to be finished with school.

Frank: Been So Busy...

It's a been incredibly busy here at school. I've got final papers and Finals coming up in the next few weeks and all my professors want paper proposals. Plus we had the holiday weekend, so that was a much needed break from school work. However, I've got so much to do and finish before April is over and even more to finish before I graduate. I spent some time at the career office today and have some leads and avenues to pursue for a teaching job. I'll post more again soon, when I get some more time.

Frank: Dokapon Kingdom! and MTELs!

So I acquired Dokapon Kingdom last Saturday, and it's pretty fun. I think it'd be a lot more fun to play with people than CPUs, since they have absurdly good luck. Also, they don't screw each other over as much as they mess with me. But the game delivers everything promised, though it moves slower than I imagined. However, the turn based style makes it easy to keep playing, long after you meant to stop.

Earlier this week, I registered to take the MTEL. MTEL stands for Massachussetts Tests for Educator Licensure, and I can't teach without a license. I'm gonna go for English 8-12 grade license and probably teach for the next couple of years. I really enjoy teaching, and every chance I've gotten to teach, I always do well. I would love to get published and become a novel writer, but teaching will give me time and motivation to earn my master's degree and I think I would eventually want to become an English professor at a liberal arts institution. That's all much further down the line of course. I'll be taking my test on March 7th.

I found an awesome conservative blog I would like to add to our blog friends/blogs we can check from the dashboard, but I don't want to upset anyone or expose this blog to unprovoked nasty commenting. I know people associated with the blog and don't want to be embarrassed or embarrass my friends. Perhaps we can discuss this over the next week or so, and I would gladly welcome a liberal blog to be added to keep things fair and balanced.

I implore the rest of you to consider a rules change. I speak for myself, but I believe there's a similar sentiment among other members of the blog that posting is a chore and brings up a lot of negative memories. We need to reinvent the blog in a way that makes it more fun for everyone. We can't accomplish that under the current system. As Greg pointed out, double commenting is against the blog rules and was violated last week. However, that rule was put in place to prevent spiteful spamming, and in the spirit of the rule, I chose to comment twice when I had something else to say. Especially since we can't edit our comments, it's really annoying to want to add something and have to risk being punished. This is an excellent example of something we should change. If there's a valid discussion in the comments, why let a rule get in the way? CARTHAGO DELENDA EST!

A Reflection on Memorial Day

My grandfather entered into the Air Force as America went to war against Japan and Germany. He worked his way to a role as a navigator on a bomber. Knowing him, he did whatever he could to get that position. Thankfully, the war would end before he saw combat. I still don't believe that he's gone. So Memorial Day is a bit hard this year.

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This week is going to be interesting. I'm revamping one of the classes I teach now that I have an idea what I need to do as a teacher. I'll also find out what the school will reimburse for travel to North Carolina. Heck, if I get free parking at Manchester-Boston, I'd be happy.

There's a short story - children's story competition open for New Hampshire residents. I have two ideas that I'd like to try to develop. The first one is "Where the wind blows". I recently saw a old science video made by IBM called the "Powers of Ten". The video is on youtube here. The site is science - oriented place, so if there's any science content in either story, I should be okay.

Yea, I was late last week. Frank managed to tell me past midnight I hadn't posted. I'm curious what my siblings are going to ask me to do.