Entries Tagged as 'High School'

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

Doc and the Kids Who Could

Every­body has a few role mod­els in their lives–the par­ent or teacher or coach who really left an impres­sion on them. Dr. Felder, my high school band direc­tor, was one of mine.
Dr. Felder, or “Doc”, as we called him, had been at Lyn­brook High for at least ten years when I entered the pro­gram my freshman […]

Friday, June 2nd, 2006

injuryProne

So I fell off my long­board and twisted my ankle maybe two months ago. And it got insanely crazy bet­ter the first night… but the rest of the heal­ing process kind of stopped there.
That was two [?] months ago, and my ankle still hasn’t healed right. And I can’t run like I usu­ally do. And […]

Thursday, June 1st, 2006

Colorcollision

Few things clash more than watch­ing Sigur Ros per­form on “Late Night With Conan O’Brien”. (Sigur Ros is an Ice­landic rock band with dis­mem­bered falsetto Nor­we­gian vocals, haunt­ingly ethe­real gui­tars and steady key­boards). And when their piece ends, the whole stu­dio is kind of quiet for one or two sec­onds. Dead quiet. Then peo­ple remember […]

Sunday, May 28th, 2006

Soonafter

Catalina was so dif­fer­ent but exactly what I needed. Good con­ver­sa­tions, lots of con­fir­ma­tions, prayer and raw­ness with soph broth­ers, real encoun­ters with God, a lot of rest and relax­ation, new rela­tion­ships, all that good stuff. And mainly I am struck by how much com­mu­nity enriches and sup­ports the body, where we find the “fullness […]

Sunday, May 28th, 2006

THIS WEEK">THIS WEEK

New starts, new beginnings.

Friday, May 19th, 2006

This chapter ends with a comma

And soph year comes to a close.
Amaz­ing. Amaz­ing. I freakin can’t stop smil­ing. What an amaz­ing way to end.
What to look for­ward to:
Chap­ter camp!
Ubuntu 6.06 Dap­per Drake!
FAQQLY.com (now with MC Ham­mer! and Parry Shen! and Keiko Agena! And me!) And work­ing with new interns Vicki and Hsi­u­fan!
Refor­mat­ting my com­puter!
Soli­tude and time alone!
Using VIM!
Wear­ing my retain­ers after three […]

Thursday, May 18th, 2006

This much is true.

i lessThanThree Finals! and jesus.

Thursday, May 18th, 2006

(I’m talking about human beings)

Do you ever worry about los­ing your­self in some­body else? That they would com­pletely and fully engulf you in your every wak­ing moment. That their words would become your words, their thoughts would become your own, their iden­tity is trans­planted into your own? Are you ever as miss­ing as the empty pil­low beside you; lonely […]

Friday, May 12th, 2006

Summertime

Finals week:
Sat: Psych160
Mon: History7B
Wed: CS186
Fri: EE40
Home. Hello, Sum­mer =)
Sun: Catalina Chap­ter Camp.
Fri: Return home.
May 29th, Mon: Start work at FAQQLY… for reals. (We have an office now… wow!)
June 26th, Mon: UCB Sum­mer Ses­sion C starts. I’ll be tak­ing Math 55 (argh!)
August 18th, Fri: Sum­mer Ses­sion Ends.
One Week of Free­dom,
Good­bye Sum­mer.
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ARR WHY IS 1 JOHN SO JUICY
I’m chewin’ and chewin’ […]

Monday, May 8th, 2006

Two minutes

[HE, a young man stands in cor­ner of room, back turned away from HIM, a fatherly fig­ure. A chair in the mid­dle of the room.]
HE: [paces room] It’s like I’m stand­ing here at the precipice, some sort of mile high moun­tain [stands up on chair] and I’m look­ing down at the val­ley below and I scream […]