MN House File 1078 was introduced on March 17th to:

1) Remove Perpich Center for Arts Education from alternate teacher compensation.

2) Change the Arts High School into a charter school.

3) Dissolve the Perpich Center for Arts Education, transferring records to the Dept. Of Education, oversight to Dept. Of Administration

4) Budget enough money to end all contracts and agreements the school and entity has left

5) Repeals the law founding the Perpich Center for Arts Education.

Part of me died upon reading that. Then I read it was only introduced, no votes yet. We can change this.

Well, really, truly, foaming-at-the-mouth angry.  Being a little tweaked can lead to some interesting posts, but don’t do it when full of unfocused rage.  ’Cause blogging when a red haze clouds the vision leads to bad choices of words, and that’s just not a good thing.

So, I’ve stayed away, choosing that advice over succumbing to the bitter, nasty jumble of words and phrases just poised at the edge of my fingers, waiting to escape onto this screen.

When I was a wee-boy growing up in Duluth, I had problems with my temper.  I would say nasty things, behave atrociously, and was just a real pain at times.  One day someone said “Nate, you’re talking from your stomach too much.  Don’t speak from your stomach, just use it to start from.  It’s all just noise and smelly gas in your stomach.  Speak from your heart and your head.  That’s where you take that noise and gas and turn it into something useful.”

Well, I’m done typing the words straight from my stomach.  My head and heart are itching to get back to this thing what I call a blog.

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Chasing ideas that will not stay put inside my head.  A strange set of echoes slide through my thoughts that doesn’t seem to have a original sound.  Every action today just seems to trail away.

I hate it when I wake up on the wrong side of my mind.

Must be November making it’s campsite inside my head.  It’s hard to focus on anything.

Maybe I’m depressed.  Or maybe I’m being a whiny little bitch.

Sundays have just been weird to me over the last two weeks.

Have fun, readers.  Sorry I ain’t got anything remotely interesting.

Skåll!!!

I haven’t posted regularly in so long, I honestly cannot remember my mindset for blogging.

It’s like I’ve gone to get dressed, and I realized I have forgotten how to put on pants.  It’s not hard to figure it out, but there’s this nagging feeling that somehow, in some way, I’m doing it wrong.

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Last payday, Friday the eighteenth, I had $50 due on my Federal Student Loan.  $2K on one and $11.53 on the other.

So I paid $60.00 thinking it would pay off one debt.  I even did a happy dance, thinking I had one more debt paid off.

On Wednesday I checked the balance and it was $5.38.  The amount due on that loan in February was $5.36.

So even if I pay the entire amount due, there’s a distinct chance that I will still owe $0.02 on that damn loan…

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