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AEJR: The Old Fake Fever
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Saturday, February 14, 2009. The Old Fake Fever. I had my first Valentine's Day with a boyfriend when I was in the 7th grade. It's a memory that has stayed with me. I didn't really like the guy. For the sake of minimal privacy, let's call him Rabbit. He looked like one. He was the nerdiest guy in our class. I was the nerdiest girl. We were straight out of the "Nerds" movie with greasy hair and glasses and rabbity front teeth. Really, who else was going to be my first boyfriend? Then came Valentine's Day.
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AEJR: July 2009
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009. A Slightly Revised Journal Entry from May. I've never had a perfect mother. By perfect, I mean, one whom I could say anything to. Of course, all mothers say to their children: "You can tell me anything." But they don't really mean it. That anything can be hurtful. In my waking this morning, I saw that - like everything else - I don't really need a perfect mother. She is the Earth. She is, what Jung called, the collective subconscious. She is this new, second voice in me. I am tire...
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AEJR: July 2008
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008. I went at the best time. Lunchtime! There were five people in the theater, other than me and my sister. This meant that I could laugh uproariously and she could jump in the seat and pound her fists in the air whenever Christian Bale walked onscreen. I refuse to repeat what everyone else has said about the movie. Instead, I'm going to point out the little pluses and minuses that nobody else noticed, or wrote on. I asked Moira in the theater, "Sooo. what happened to the Joker? Every...
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AEJR: December 2008
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008. Adventures with Me and Yoshi. I started talking to my car right after I bought it. At six am, on the morning when I was to start teaching at a new school, I greeted him. Good Morning, Yoshi," I said. Our talks continued. On the way to and from work, I talked to him about what was bugging me. When drivers cut me off, I bitched: "Omigod, Yosh. Can you believe that guy? Thanks, Yosh," I say. I say, me and Yosh, we got a bond. You don't even know. Yosh and I watched as the guy in f...
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AEJR: September 2009
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Saturday, September 19, 2009. Home is Wherever I'm with You. Around this time last year, I ran into an old high school acquaintance at the gym. Hi Anney," he said. "Are you home from Boston? No, I moved back. For good.". He stepped back and scowled "Why? He asked. Like the idea of moving from a hip city like Boston to bumf- - Phoenixville, Pennsylvania was absurd. Like I was really uncool. Like we were back in high school again. That was a year ago. They could live anywhere! My life is no movie. Shortly ...
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AEJR: Home is Wherever I'm with You
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Saturday, September 19, 2009. Home is Wherever I'm with You. Around this time last year, I ran into an old high school acquaintance at the gym. Hi Anney," he said. "Are you home from Boston? No, I moved back. For good.". He stepped back and scowled "Why? He asked. Like the idea of moving from a hip city like Boston to bumf- - Phoenixville, Pennsylvania was absurd. Like I was really uncool. Like we were back in high school again. That was a year ago. They could live anywhere! My life is no movie. Shortly ...
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AEJR: March 2009
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Sunday, March 29, 2009. I Plead the Fifth. If you haven't noticed, I haven't been blogging. Like, at all. But I got a good excuse. I went back to school. This semester, I'm a teacher and a student, teaching two classes and taking five. If all goes well, I will have my secondary ed certification in two years. So yeah. I'm out. For now. Hopefully I'll be back in the summer. Anney E.J. Ryan. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Anney E.J. Ryan. Teacher. Writer. Space cadet. View my complete profile. I Plead the Fifth.
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AEJR: June 2008
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Saturday, June 28, 2008. Am I an Idiot? I got a lot of stuff that's wrong with me. Allergies. Nearsightedness. Gingivitis. Chronic Prepatellar Bursitis. Insomnia. Anxiety Disorder. IBS. Lactose Intolerance. This week chalked another one onto the list. I think I may be gluten intolerant too. I started researching on Wednesday. After reading up on it, I went for a run. The list of symptoms circled through my head. That damn weird metal taste! Is that why I'm itchy all the time? For the past three years, I'...
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AEJR: January 2010
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Sunday, January 31, 2010. A Portrait of the Teacher as a Student. It was bullshit. I took for granted that it had been ten years since I had to take Math. And while I knew that bringing their interests into the classroom would invest my students in their work, I did not yet understand what it meant to be a good teacher. I did not know how to help them do well. I had to take Math again first. Said my mother. "But you're an English teacher! The material was not. It was all logic, truth tables, and thes...
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