Tag Archives: School

Voting at my old Elementary School

Posted on June 8, 2022 by Paul

My Grade 8 graduation took place inside my elementary school’s gymnasium. It was so hot in there you could’ve cooked an egg on a projector. I wore a suit for the occasion, of course. A photo taken moments before the … Continue reading →

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Kick Back, Relax

Posted on August 15, 2021 by Paul

Whenever I try and take slow, deep breaths to relax, I feel like I’m giving myself an internal service error. At which point, I put my breathing back on auto-breathe and act like I didn’t try to manually control it. … Continue reading →

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First Time Watching: Pitch Perfect

Posted on April 7, 2021 by Paul

Whenever I hear about Pitch Perfect or Fever Pitch, it takes me a second to decipher which movie has Drew Barrymore illegally running across the field at Fenway Park to Jimmy Fallon, and which one is about singing. This post … Continue reading →

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Are You Messy?

Posted on March 29, 2021 by Paul

One of the worst things about high school was the mess left on the tables in the cafeteria by students who were “too cool” to throw out their garbage. It is something I still can’t comprehend. How do you just … Continue reading →

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How Do You Art?

Posted on January 31, 2021 by Paul

I can’t draw. The pencil touches the paper and it’s all downhill from there. What’s the trick? What’s the secret? Why aren’t my sausage people acceptable? So what if all of my four-legged animal drawings look the same? This post … Continue reading →

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What Are Words?

Posted on January 7, 2021 by Paul

My Senior Kindergarten teacher was universally loved by everyone at my elementary school. No matter what grade you were in, you could walk by the fenced off area for kindergarteners and wave, or say hello, and she’d return the gesture. … Continue reading →

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First Time Watching: Clueless

Posted on December 29, 2020 by Paul

Over the last seven years, I’ve watched shows like: The O.C., One Tree Hill, Gossip Girl, and Gilmore Girls. It has been eleven years since I was in high school, yet those shows forced me to look back at my … Continue reading →

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Falling Asleep in 2012

Posted on May 10, 2020 by Paul

I think most people miss waking up in a certain place, or year, or time in their life, but for me, I miss falling asleep in 2012. Is that a weird thing to miss, or are you just used to … Continue reading →

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This Stinks

Posted on April 3, 2020 by Paul

The other night, my entire family was woken up at 3AM because there was a cat outside, screaming and, we assume, fighting another animal. We couldn’t see anything from the window, but the fracas sounded like it was happening in … Continue reading →

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It Started In 2010

Posted on December 30, 2019 by Paul

Time is not always fair. It can make you wait, or it can make you miss. Somewhere in between those two events is what we call the present. It is right now. And now. And now. And now. It is … Continue reading →

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