On the 12th day of each month bloggers from all over the world take 12 photos of their day. The 12 of 12 project was Chad’s idea, and you can go to his website to see the links of all the people who participated this month.
And you can see all of my 12 of 12s by going to my 12 of 12 page.
Here are the photos I took on December 12th, 2011:
Gotta keep that smooth-as-a-baby’s-behind look going.
Every Monday I write a new mantra to focus on for the week.
I felt high (and not in a good way) when I got to the office. So I whipped out my diabetes purse. I hate that thing.
That stadium-looking thing is ASU. This is the view from my office.
We have Christmas wreaths in the lobby of our building. You can see Megan and myself in the reflection.
Michael Jackson’s Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough totally makes me feel like I’m living teenage dream.
This is what winter looks like in Phoenix.
One of my sister’s Xmas presents from Amazon.com arrived.
I got TWO cards today. The one on the left is from Jennifer. The one on the right is from Nick.
Grr. After dinner high.
Getting ready to record an audio episode of What Some Would Call Lies.
Editing the podcast before bed. If you like the stories I write, maybe you’ll like the audio version of What Some Would Call Lies. Check it out here.
At about this time every year we start to see the internet flood with meaningless top ten lists. At one point these lists might have actually served purpose, but now I believe it is used as cheap filler content to be used while the content-makers are off enjoying their holiday season.
This week I will tell you the story of a flight from Orange County’s John Wayne Airport to Phoenix’s Sky Harbor that seems entirely too coincidental to actually be true. But it is.
Listen Now:
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It’s Monday! So here is my new mantra on my mirror for the week. Each week I write a little inspirational message on a post-it and put it on my bathroom mirror. Throughout the week I try to focus on this message to get me through the week.
At about this time every year we start to see the internet flood with meaningless top ten lists. At one point these lists might have actually served purpose, but now I believe it is used as cheap filler content to be used while the content-makers are off enjoying their holiday season.
A friend of mine from my old job asked me if I had any of the projects I had from when we worked together. When I was digging through my files I found some stuff that made me think that I really enjoyed my job facilitating tech projects with youth.
I enjoyed it a lot.
If I were stuck in some sort of impossible hypothetical where I had to work, but salary wasn’t an issue, I’d easily choose this job. But it wasn’t just the job. I also worked with some wonderful people that gave me incredibly freedoms and trusted me to such a length that I was able to put together some really entertaining and educational programs and activities for young people.
And this freedom and trust trickled down to the young people who I supervised. The big green table in the center of the tech lab was an “idea table.” The young people would bring their ideas to the table and discuss it with an adult mentor who then helped to guide them into the planning stage.
I want to build a Lego robot.
I want to make my own video game.
A group of kids had an idea for a documentary film, for example. ”I’ll give you a video camera once I see your idea on paper,” I told them. At that green table they outlined the premise, wrote interview questions and even delegated a member to go make a theme song for the movie.
This is their documentary film (and there’s a Mike Lawson cameo):
I also did some fun Photoshop projects with the young people. I’m serious…I taught 6-year-olds how to use Adobe Photoshop! Some of you grown bitches can’t figure it out, and a 1st grader made this:
Another really awesome idea that some of the kids had was to make a weekly radio show. Radio was kind of out of the question…so I taught them about podcasting! They did about 20 weeks worth of radio shows called The Guad Squad (The Club is located in Guadalupe…so Guad Squad is a cute pun). Here’s what a regular episode sounded like:
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It’s very rare when all the correct ingredients are in the pantry of your life to make such a delicious loaf of bread. In 2008-2009 I was lucky to have the right support from above and the right children below and the right attitude inside.
What about you guys?? Have you ever had a job that was perfect (except for maybe the salary or location or something) that you sometimes wish you could go back to?
At about this time every year we start to see the internet flood with meaningless top ten lists. At one point these lists might have actually served purpose, but now I believe it is used as cheap filler content to be used while the content-makers are off enjoying their holiday season.
This week on the audio version of What Some Would Call Lies I tell the story of when I was super vulgar and nasty…out of spite. Plus I give some well-deserved shout-outs.
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It’s Monday! So here is my new mantra on my mirror for the week. Each week I write a little inspirational message on a post-it and put it on my bathroom mirror. Throughout the week I try to focus on this message to get me through the week.
At about this time every year we start to see the internet flood with meaningless top ten lists. At one point these lists might have actually served purpose, but now I believe it is used as cheap filler content to be used while the content-makers are off enjoying their holiday season.
Enjoy!
Top 10 Words Mike Uses In Place of “Vagina”
Cunt
Couture
Ovaltine
Georgia O’Keeffe
P Town (this is usually in reference to the entire area)
Gotta keep that smooth-as-a-baby’s-behind look going.
Every Monday I write a new mantra to focus on for the week.
I felt high (and not in a good way) when I got to the office. So I whipped out my diabetes purse. I hate that thing.
That stadium-looking thing is ASU. This is the view from my office.
We have Christmas wreaths in the lobby of our building. You can see Megan and myself in the reflection.
Michael Jackson’s Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough totally makes me feel like I’m living teenage dream.
This is what winter looks like in Phoenix.
One of my sister’s Xmas presents from Amazon.com arrived.
I got TWO cards today. The one on the left is from Jennifer. The one on the right is from Nick.
Grr. After dinner high.
Getting ready to record an audio episode of What Some Would Call Lies.
Editing the podcast before bed. If you like the stories I write, maybe you’ll like the audio version of What Some Would Call Lies. Check it out here.
At about this time every year we start to see the internet flood with meaningless top ten lists. At one point these lists might have actually served purpose, but now I believe it is used as cheap filler content to be used while the content-makers are off enjoying their holiday season.
This week I will tell you the story of a flight from Orange County’s John Wayne Airport to Phoenix’s Sky Harbor that seems entirely too coincidental to actually be true. But it is.
