Minkom Wa iLaykom

when you have to learn how to cry silently
so that the people you live with won't hear
because if they do, they will ask
and telling the story just brings on more tears

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you all know, I'm studying to be an art teacher. I want to teach the highschool level because I've always felt that they need that outlset for expression. I always thought of myself as the cool art teacher, who ends up teaching a class full of students that come from very bad backgrounds.

Because of my art class, and me spending extra time after school with them, they will all straighten out. The girls that keep getting knocked up will finally learn to say NO. The boys who are in gangs will leave those gangs and start studying so they can "make something of thelseves." The racist kids will actually start getting along with everyone because they realize they're all just people. And the angry kid who brings a gun to class will back down and change his/her mind about shooting everyone in class including the teacher.

So I finally finished school, last exam was this past Friday. After thinking that done is done, and since I've been in school for a while, I'm leaning towards another degree...

Over the weekend I was at a wedding and met a cute friend from childhood. I'm talking 20 yrs ago lol that was interesting. Maybe a little fun and touching too :P. This is connecting together with being done with school and all so now I'm starting to consider seeking the right person to marry. Though I've been wanting to do it long time ago, I've had it delayed until I'm done with school.

Looks like I will actually get to go overseas this summer, I havent left the States since 1999.

It's been a week since my bike got stolen, there is nothing I can do about it so I have to get over it.
Finals are coming up, and I am on page 7 of my 8 page paper that is due tomorrow with a final presentation. I also have other things I need to finish and turn in before next week!
It's going to be a crzy few weeks. My cable got shut off this morning because of non-payment. yes story of my life! My car payment is due in a week and I don't have that either. also I need to register for summer classes but I owe the school fees from this semester.

It just seems like I owe alot, here and there and to top it off work has been slow, I get called in maybe once a week, if that.

bla

My bike got stolen today while Iw as napping between 2-3:30 pm. someone came into our complex in the middle of the day, cut my lock and took my bike.

who would do such a thing? in the middle of the day? and how did they have access to our complex?

I'll tell you who, all these shady people that ar ein their apartments all day with the blinds closed, they never leave, they dont have jobs, they don't have classes, they just sit in their caves all day, and wait for an oppertunity to steel something that they can sell to buy their fixes of drunks and alcohol. all these tenants and their friends that also have access to the complex, these pot-heads, crack-heads, shroom-heads and drunk ass morons. yeah it was probably them or one of their friends, who else would it be?

How to ride a bicycle, how to read, how to clean their bedrooms -these are just a few of the things we teach our children. But one of the most important lessons that we can pass on to the next generation is too often neglected. Teaching children about money and credit helps them to build responsible spending behaviours that can last a lifetime. Follow these five tips for teaching your children healthy money habits.

1. Start Small - Young children can learn valuable money management lessons through their interaction and activities with parents. Use daily errand activities like going to the supermarket or bank to teach kids impromptu lessons about budgeting and money. Give your children toy money and encourage them to "play store". There are also several children's books that address money and budgeting issues. Reading and discussing books like "The Money Tree" and "If you Made a Million with your kids" can help them understand how to spend wisely.

Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, sent a message of greetings to Bashar Al-Assad, president of Syria, on the occasion of the 43rd anniversary of the March 8 revolution in Syria. In the message Kim Yong Nam said that the Syrian people have smashed the moves of the imperialists and Zionists and defended the dignity of the nation and the sovereignty of the country for 43 years, rallied close around the Arab Socialist Baath Party. He sincerely wished the president and people of Syria greater successes in their work for foiling the moves of the outside forces to isolate and stifle Syria, stepping up the modernization of the country and for fair and comprehensive settlement of the Middle East issue. He expressed the conviction that the good relations of friendship and cooperation between the two countries will continue to vigorously consolidate and develop.

Politics has no business in business proposals, right? Exactly what I said when I ran into this sentence fragment: the abolition of personal freedom in the US under the Patriot act in part of a business plan discussing the company's decision to put their community access servers somewhere in Europe - but not in the U.K or Scandinavia. Now, in point of fact I think the idea that data kept in most of Europe is safer from government inspection than is data kept in the U.S. is utterly delusional - in reality things like the FBI request to Google are unusual enough in the U.S. to merit public attention, but are an accepted, and unnoticed, part of everyday reality across continental Europe.

Airport screeners are using new technology to find explosives instead of hunting for tweezers, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Friday. Locked and armored cockpit doors and air marshals on planes are part of a switch in main security concern from hijackers to people who might want to blow up airplanes, Chertoff said in a speech at an event here hosted by the Commonwealth Club. "The things we're really worried about are explosives," Chertoff said. Airport screeners are being retrained "to move them away from looking for things like nail clippers to more sophisticated chemicals and detonating devices," he said. "We have now set an aggressive timetable to complete deployment of the TWIC card," Chertoff said. "Our goal is to have these cards in the hands of port workers this year with those workers undergoing background checks. "The card will be for hundreds of thousands of people who need to access ports on a regular basis. "It will include biometric technology so we can make sure that the cardholder is really who he or she says that he or she is, and will give us the confidence about who is entering our ports," Chertoff said.