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The Future

It is essay grading season, which means high schoolers trying to write. Remember, when editors don't pay writers, this is what you get.

"They all strived to be better than their piers..."

"I think if he/she takes life easy will beable to do anything they want therenot competing there just trying to get by in life."

"It may also affect who is laid" (end of essay)

"[People] who aren't abrehensive end up having nothing or close to nothing."

"...and the man in the dinner ate."

"Not all the time but sometimes it's good to be a little competitive in somethings like if you want to make a goal about you and someone else on getting a better grade."

Corporate Horoscopes

In the nearly four years (gasp!) that I’ve been with a local SAT tutoring company, I’ve watched it mature and grow into the leader in the field (for California, anyway). I’ve gone from being a tutor to a tutor and tutor trainer and then, eventually, to tutoring, training and taking phone calls in the office (yes, I work in a cubicle).

But I never thought I’d be psychoanalyzed.

Watching the Grey Sky

I was lucky – I was assigned a bungalow with air conditioning. Of course, it was locked when I arrived. And the office wouldn’t open it for me – I had to get a sympathetic teacher from next door to let my 11 SAT students and me into the room.

Rest is for the Weak

Three days. Very nearly, three days.

From my return to LA on September 13th right up until October 28th, I will have had seven days without any tutoring of any sort. Even on Fridays, I've had a lesson in the afternoon. Sunday mornings. Saturday seminars. And Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings have been packed.

But I do not teach tomorrow. I do not teach Saturday. I do not teach Sunday.

Three days.

Very nearly. I am working tomorrow, filming another small role for It Is Written up in Simi Valley. Sunday I am covering the first leg of the Chivas USA-Houston series. Also, I'm getting more Alliance stuff done, I'm reading some plays and I might even get some time to sit down and do some real writing.

But for the most part, I have a three day weekend.

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