Prologue: So much for keeping up with the blog LOL but I want to thank this audience in my small corner of the internet for reading whatever goes up. I hope that anyone who finds my stories might find it helpful. If you’re a new or old teacher. Or if you’re not in the fieldContinue reading “Catching up with Avery – Jan ’24”
Category Archives: Livelihood
I got a camera
Prologue: Photography has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. My parents always had a film camera available. It was something I looked forward to on the weekends when we went to Costco. It almost became our responsibility as their sons to go to the “Photo” area and lookContinue reading “I got a camera”
Niku Tama Udon without the Niku
I’ve never done anything with food content before. My partner, Aya, is an aspiring chef and several weeks or a few months ago, she asked if I could edit a cooking video for her, and of course, I’d gladly do that. I don’t consume a lot of food content, but enough that I’ve watched alongsideContinue reading “Niku Tama Udon without the Niku”
Celebrating Six Years
Prologue: Kind of shocked I haven’t posted about any of the ABxAM anniversary videos. When I think back to the most recent years, I’m usually so caught up with the end-of-year festivities, the holidays, Aya’s birthday, and the end of the semester. I almost rush stitching a video together between Christmas and New Years. ButContinue reading “Celebrating Six Years”
28
Prologue: I had planned to post this the week of my birthday. At least before the end of February, but I got sick after my trip to Seattle and Aya leaving. Luckily, I tested negative for COVID and didn’t get Aya sick either. But it’s more like a UTI turned bladder infection? My physician can’tContinue reading “28”
I need a better relationship with time
This has been an exhausting 24 days. And this last week alone feels like the most exhausting. 6:45AM. Raisin bread in the toaster for 2 minutes. Hygiene stuff. Change. Grab lunch out of the fridge. Start the car. Hour commute. Class. Meetings. Hour commute. 5-6PM. Try to relax. Dinner. Plan. Shower. Shit. Sleep. Do itContinue reading “I need a better relationship with time”
27
February 23, 2021It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything. I think the last time I wrote something was in the summer. After COVID, everything just turned back into drafts–waiting to be posted I’m surprised to be 27. I had been telling family members that I remember when my older cousins turned 27. That IContinue reading “27”
Shelter-in-Place Log #2
Currently, SFUSD has put out what they define as the “Continuity of Learning” to address what [at least our district is doing, not so sure across the state] students could be doing and what teachers should be doing. Before the city-wide lockdown & shelter-in-place, I already anticipated that closure was upon us, especially with theContinue reading “Shelter-in-Place Log #2”
Shelter-in-Place Log #1
It’s been an interesting past few months for humanity and especially the past few weeks for California. Throughout January & February, more racially charged instances towards Asian Americans and Asians all over the world were springing up. At first, it was very distant, through Twitter or videos on Instagram. Then it turned into violence towardsContinue reading “Shelter-in-Place Log #1”
My Two Loves
Prologue: Aya and I decided to get a dog back in 2018. She seriously started looking for rehoming a puppy that Fall, and I didn’t really think anything of it. It was my first year working full-time so finding a dog wasn’t at the forefront of the laundry list of teacher tasks I was drowningContinue reading “My Two Loves”
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