10.26.2006

i've had a fantastic time hanging out in ventura. enjoying the company of good country people... i wrote songs, a movie, read a book, went to three movies, napped, ran, ate, drank, listened to astral weeks on repeat, bought a night at the opera for my ipod, and pants that i like. i am going to disneyland today to cap off the fun.

11.24.2006

yesterday, i was thankful for the memories. today i'm thankful for pumping iron. i'm going to begin a workout regiment today.

man, casino royal is a rad movie. i saw it last night. subsequently, i tried to gain my double zero status by killing two bums.

11.21.2006

you can be taken back by a death for any number of reasons. i remember when i was visiting missouri as a kid. mickey mantle and jerry garcia died in the same week. i appreciate robert altaman in the same distant sense.

11.20.2006

first off... i'm very excited because my life has been good. writing has been fun, basseball playing= awesome, solo randy newman concert= AWESOME!!, school= not so bad (which is close to awesome), the house is clean= awesome, breaktime= awesome, good reading= awesome, dodgers signing juan pierre=awe... (that sound of a record needle stopping serene music) ,MFHXCZVBUDHRFKJHLBSGAJHFXZBHJVFJKZDNHC92C387YQRWYT4VF85W745Y4280B74YT08VB7YT4087Q3Y480Q7VYT80347T08B7475TY8237650NYRDFUWHO8765FT80WE7RYOEUDVHGOSE4Y8RJF0WE8ERTY

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11.16.2006

for those of you who know gabe davis and maybe haven't heard, his sister passed away tuesday morning. he has really gone through a very, very heavy week and could really use your prayers.

11.7.2006

so, i got a new phone. when switching over the sim card, i lost everyone's digits. if you're a friend of mine, and want me to call you. drop your nombre in the comments, or email me @ jessegloyd@gmail.com, or myspace me @ the rio bravo.fart.com.

11.5.2006

i saw the who last night on some random free tickets. i wasn't really expecting much, but they really ruled the roost. fun fun show! their encore was all of tommy. pretty fun.

11.1.2006

robyn slipped on a rib and broke her foot this morning. she's fine, just in a heap of pain. i've parent conferences and grades the next week or so. all of this busy busy makes me glad for albums like nebraska.

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
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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.