i should probably being going to bed soon, but i just feel like writing. i don't know what about, though. ideas, anyone?
hm this might be completely out of left field, but i just thought of two things: my future house & my first year of teaching.
two highly odd things to write about out of the blue, but i guess they've just been in my mind a lot recently.
I'm going to say the house is going to be in the city. Portland, if conditions are perfect. I don't know much about the area, so
we'll just say on some street downtown. I want a wrap around front porch with a bench so i can read the paper and smoke a cigarette
while megan's getting ready for work. I want a front door that screams "yeah, you wish you lived here." with a bunch of engravings and panels
and what not. Then inside, all wood floors. wood-mother-fucking-floors throughout the house. well maybe not in the kitchen. but everywhere else.
We'll have have lots of windows, so i don't forget there's a sun. and we'll have a spiral stair case maybe. that sounds fun right? "Hey, come over, we just
put in the spiral staircase. it's so fun!" But really, wouldn't that be sweet? The kitchen has totally been chosen by megan. RED. EVERYWHERE. hahah
but really, i like what she has planned. like a bar with old stools like they had at diners in the 50's, all shinny and stuff. and black and white tile, and of course
a bunch of red appliances. oh, and i want a huge ass clock in there somewhere. We'll have a damn fine coffee maker, because the shit i have at my house now
sucks ass and i demand heavenly brewed perfection. like waffle house.
Our bedroom will be big, but in no way oversized. I want it painted something bright, and happy. I don't want to wake up every morning, see the walls,
and be like, "oh great, these walls are dull, like my life." i want something that will make me say, "is it monday? OH FUCK YEAH, IT'S TIME TO TEACH!"
okay, that might not happen, but still, i think i'd be funny to do it anyway. I want a big bed so we can sprawl and move around and have bunches of pillows.
megan loves pillows hahah. We'll have an amazing bathroom, with a huge bathtub with jets and all that jazz. and i want candles. lots and lots of candles.
then there's the study. this is probably my clearest image of what i want. I want it to be really long, like not too narrow, but you get the idea. again, with wood floor, and a huge window and a door leading to the patio where we'll go each night to just unwind and look at all the traffic and commotion in the streets. Back to the study. I want the walls to be white, with the wall opposite of the big window covered with amazing quotes or song lyrics that i love painted in black cursive. and i want a hookah in the corner with floor pillows so we can invite people over and just hang out. The lighting is crucial. i want track lighting, like in studios. i just love it for some reason. I want this to be where i can go to just loose myself in a good book, or write a song and hear it echo throughout the room.
That's all i can really think of right now, it's late. megan, if you have anything to add, go for it. hahah :)
now, as for teaching...
i don't want to be just another teacher. i don't want my kids dreading my class and talking shit about me. i don't want them thinking this will be just another
year of boring english class. I want it to be special. i want to be remembered. As they come in to class each day, i'll have music playing, music from now, music
that inspires me and is special to me. It's just nice to walk into a room with inviting music. it sets a good mood. then well have open discussion, what they did over the weekend, who's looking for a job, just anything going on in there life. it's good to get them talking about their lives, not just their school lives. Don't get me wrong, they will learn the course material, but i'm going to make it fun. i'm going to be the english teacher who taught his kids the difference between participial
phrases and gerund phrases through playing guitar and writing witty, yet informative lyrics about grammar. I'm going to play the postal service while they're reading Romeo and Juliet, Bob Dylan while they thumb through On the Road, and Atmosphere as they work on their free verse poems. I'm going to show them
what i see in the art of words. I'm going to have poetry readings in class. I'm gonna turn the lights off, put on a cloak, and hold a candle as i read ghost stories
during Halloween. I'm going to take them outside and read when it's nice outside. When they're stressed out around exam time and they just can't focus, i'll say hey lets take a break and listen to my favorite death cab cd. I'll have projects that they'll actually have fun doing, like having them choose a song and analyze it and things like that. And i'll do the projects too. I just want them to feel like when they come into my room, they're no longer in school, we're in our on community.
above all, i want them to understand why i love what i do. if they only learn that, i'll be more than happy.
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