10.30.2006

i'm in my room. things are beginning to come together, i think. i'm working on grades this week. trying to mellow it out some. fell asleep to annie hall last night. i forgot how great of a movie it is

10.21.2006

an article
Originally uploaded by wneloyd.

i just thought this was mildly ironic.

10.14.2006

congrats to darren and his de-troit tygers. congrats to larry david for making awesome television. congrats to me for being just a great guy.

10.10.2006

man, i don't want to go to work today. i'm really not in the mood.

10.7.2006

stupid dodgers.
funny ray stevens.

10.4.2006

the hope of tomorrow (reasons to love and awesome randy newman).

10.2.2006

so, i guess i'm not as anonymous as i thought. if any of my students are reading this... go work on your five paragraph essay or your vocab or something. mr. gloyd had a fun weekend. he went to monterey and saw the following: sharks, jellyfish, hippies, otters, seals, and fishies.

students, if you're reading this, you're going to learn (though i would like you to never write a paper using all lower case letters).

here is a third person omniscient recap of my weekend...

mr. gloyd left his beautiful school in quaint east los angeles tired and hungry. he was a little low on money, so he decided to make a sandwich at home and save the spicy good smells of sweet carnitas for another afternoon. upon ariving home, his wife hit him with a rolling pin and called him silly names for no good reason. he was in a bind, so he gathered all of his strength and placed a banana peel in her path. she noticed the banana peel and turned into a gargoyle, thwarting his plan (and their weekend).
"i be shinatar, queen of moldar!" she said.
"i don't care who you are," he said, waving a finger with a hand on his hip. "you gonna' git in the car this instant, and we are gonna' go to monterey!"

okay, i'm going to quit writing this now. i need some sleep. it's past my bedtime (and yours).



back to not internet blog teaching academy... i'm in a band. sometimes i like the things we do. sometimes i do not. i am in the middle of not liking things right now. thusly, i shall go and write some wicked dialogue for my major motion picture i'm working on. kids, go google something more interesting than your teacher.

actually, i will go read john dos passos write wicked cool things that are old timey. kids, read something good. it'll change your life.

10.1.2006

welcome to october. fall is here, the air is crisp, and i am sitting in a hotel drinking coffee. we are in monterey, robyn is getting ready for the day and i'm about to hop into the shower.

we met up with alan and xio yesterday at a winery. we met some very nice armenians. they gave us each a bottle of wine and were very good, unexpected company.

i've listened to a miz i made, pussy cats, all things must pass , and itunes on random. sorry to the matt and amanda (who are also on holiday in the same region), we didn't get back on the road from solvang/ wine country until 7:00.

school is one month in. i have to start taking classes at lacc next semester. i pray that it either goes by quick, or something saves me from having to do it at all. time to shower.

9.26.2006

my night has been good. a nice dinner of meat and asparagus. a little fun making jest at andrew's hippie ideology. a little not thinking about school tomorrow. a little music time time. and some writing starting in a few. the dodgers won. i've really got nothing.

9.14.2006

quick update on me:

not that anyone cares, i just think of this like a diary that a lot of people will be able to see- including myself and possibly my more industrious students. man, i hope my students don't google me.

watching: arrested development III, paths of glory
reading: dos passos, house on mango street (with kiddies)
listening: workingman's dead, marty robbins
working: teaching students some form of english sort of
lovin': robyn my wife and sadie my dog and jesus and red stripe, flank steak, baseball, willie nelson, dos passos.
writing: kinetivision
acting: this thing about a guy who was born with a muppett for a hand that this guy says he's going to shoot
writing: satchel paige, kinetivision
performing: jarvis
singing: songs that i play with the band rio bravo. i wish it were the lovin' spoonful.

i get up at 5:30 and go to bed between 11:30 and 12:30. the dodgers are hanging on by a thread. i like being busy. i jog a lot. i see people. i work. work isn't as bad as i thought. not enough time to think about it. "time keeps rolling along and there's nothing we can do about it," said poppo when my grandma was dying.

i'm watching the wheel of fortune. i'm more fascinated that its still on tv. pat say-jack is a big baseball fan. one of the good guys. we'll all be dead before we know it.

9.8.2006

i just had this weird urge to move to the midwest. i don't think i can talk robyn into it.

9.8.2006

it's funny, but i accidentally forgot that revenge of the nerds was the best movie in all the world.

9.5.2006

first day was alright. celebrating with an ice cold taycawtea and an episode of deadwood before i get into my evening routine. the routine will include: a jog, a movie writing time, a rock song, maybe more deadwood, some prep, maybe some roger rabbit, some fine cooked dinner, and maybe a couple innings of dodger baseball.

i was expecting gangbangers with red headbands, hairnets, moustaches, and those creepy tear tattoos. turns out i have a group of really nice kids (one period of 16 kids= awesome time) who answer questions when i give them candy. i was freaking out some yesterday, but it seems to be pretty cool. give me a call if you want to hang out and you live in los angeles. though i should take it easy some this week.

that guy who played daryl on the bob newhart show is really funny on deadwood. we have a garden at our school and we get to take field trips. we're called the beverly hills of east la. though i like to think of beverly hills as the east la of crapville. east la has wicked good tacos, beverly hills has wicked gross wrap sand-whitches.

oh... we're having a halloween party! come to our house when it happens.

8.30.2006

my classroom's a bloody mess. school starts on tuesday and it seems to be a good place. i've already made my first dw griffith joke in front of all of the teachers and it went over well.

i'm watching constant gardener with the wife and dog. it takes place in and around the kenyan slum of kibera. pretty intense. if you want an in depth look at my relationship with robyn you should watch this film... oh, i mean if you want an indepth look at the stuff robyn saw and experienced in kenya, you should watch this film.

i think rafe fines made this film to shake the evil nazi off his back.

8.27.2006

we've a free show on thursday. i think we need to put you on the list before hand for it to be free, though, so drop me an email if you want to go (or even if you might go but you're not sure). we're watching the latest harry potter and cohc.

8.22.2006

watching a dodger game. it's dog night at petco. we get our dog back tonight. wupee. i've had heartburn, i got a haircut and realized i'm going bald in a hurry, and i'm fat, and i think i'm breaking out.

8.20.2006

the end of summer is usually depressing, but this year it's not for some reason. robyn is back from africa, which has put me in a very good mood. we're going to eat some flank steak and asparagus and watch a movie and relax. i've more training all next week for my new teacher job, some shows to prep for, a wicked concept album to piece together, sweet blockbuster movies to write, and many many other fun things to accomplish (including, most importantly, chilling out hard core).

more gems from the attic...

this was a section from a report for health class. i believe it is a response to a video we may have watched. i guess i was the inspiration for ignatius j reilly.

date rape

the purpose of this video was to make people aware of the dangers of date rape. it was a learning experience that i never really thought of before. i believe that this is true that boys shouldn't presist on "getting what they want." but girls shouldn't be so sudctive and revelieng.

girls should be able to speak up for what they believe is right, and boys should stop when being tempted. i wish this video would have given more ideas from the male's point of view, because alot of women don't know what's going through a buys mind when hes being tempted like this, i think that some of the feminists who made this video should think of the pressure that the girl is putting on the boy.

(note the teacher didn't correct any spelling or grammar mistakes)

funny stuff from my attic

i'm cleaning out my attic... old papers from school, etc.

some highlights...

1992 fax to jim rome

1998, your glory year you were led by mickey hatcher and alfredo griffin, half your team is drifting around the minors, on class c ballteams.

when your sending sympothy packages to crackdaddy, daryl straberry, filled with cocaine. to nocal, ponder on this question, who has one the most world series, and have the most men in the hall. p.s. switched at birth matt williams, harmon killibrew, and martina narvatilova.

and this journal entry. the topic: the most dangerous game i can think of is...

my answer: i would have to say what some of the marines did in vietnam, where they would have a deck of cards and if they were to draw out an ace, they would kill a whole town.

8.5.2006

i am really feeling like a sloth today. i am too lazy to get food. too lazy to write. apathetic, lazy and bored.