stop being mean. you meanie.

anyway, boo sox and I hope they loose.

I hope things get better at your school though. Sounds like my old HS.

Talk about the remakes of "east side high"

- D

"But he who listens to me shall live securely
 And will be at ease from the dread of evil."  - Prov 1:33

That's what I pray when it gets rough here, J.  Hope it helps.

Peace be with you.  jen :)

^ AY dont hate.

awww  yeah jen!

i have to comment back to all yall but man i gotta figure out all that she said first lol.

i wish i went to ur school so bad.  man.  i really do.  God help me.

i'll be prayin bro.

no you don't.

i went to a good high school. on reflection, though i missed the whole 'nasty inner-city' high school experience, i'm glad i did. i got my education on.

likewise, take advantage of the situations you're in.

i had to use a translator. it was pretty difficult. i got a few of 'em on my own little self. but i've forgotten too much spanish (jen knows that i took a couple years in college, to no avail. she just won't let me live it down.)

Whatever man, your mom wishes she could comment! Haha. I'm anti-comment and besides you have my email address.

While I was conducting drama practice for the youth at church Thursday this lady wandered in with her baby girl and started to ask us to keep her in prayer. She's a special ed teacher and not for mentally disabled children, but for kids who are learning at a slower pace. Well, that's how she explained it. Anyway she says that a lot of them talk about how they are GD. She's going through a lot at her school too. I wish I could remember where she said she teaches.

i was thinking, 'what is GD? God-disabled? giving disabled?' it wasn't until i finished your little reply that i realized that she's talking Gangster Disciples. which you would have to clarify for la donna, since they haven't had gangs since that movie, 'the Warriors.'

alisa's friends pretend they're all in gangs.

jennie's kindergarten kids all form gangs. vatos locos forever, man.

and your mother's in a gang. the 'make yourself a danged ke-se-dilla' gang.

people need to be invited to the dialogue. email is fairly personal. i remember trying to get these multi-person email threads going. you didn't like them. of course, one was clocking in at 100+ in a couple days.

I believe you're referring to my preschoolers, J, and if you spent five minutes with them, you'd realize just how much truth there really is to that statement.  A frightening reflection really. 

What is a vato?

^Demoiselle, I'll be praying for that lady and her baby.  Did she say if she was a believer?  (I'm guessing not, but you never know. . .)

what's the xanga etiquette for this? should i introduce people here?

anyway jennie (aka CristoReina), vatos locos is the fake latino gang from the fake comedy 'short circuit 2.' it's pretty famous, though. i don't know if people still talk about it. a vato, if i remember correctly, is a self-identifying term for mex-am male teenagers in cali who act and dress a certain way, according to a certain standard of male machisimo, like slackers or thugs - actually, probably somewhere in the middle. i probably pissed off a whole generation of people saying that. idk.

my guess, gabrielle (aka, so stylesque aka demoiselle), is that she must be tired. would she also have talked about her kids being LD too (i remember the first time i heard that term. i was all like, 'i thought he was a Gangster Disciple, not a Maniac Latin Disciple.' and then, of course, i found out it means learning disabled.)? one of mine is. i can't even get around to teaching her. gets too frustrated way too easily. and it could be anything, anything that would set her off.

No, she's not a believer and thanks for praying for her. Hopefully she will start attending the church with her mother who is a member.

Well she did say her kids have learning disabilities and they all claim that they are in gangs. I guess she's fed up with it.

wow this site looks really bad in mozilla. why can't there just be one nice internet-friendly browser?!

again, i've got mozilla. i really haven't seen it in explorer.

did you see her in church today?

gangs tend to be a refuge for the disenfranchised. and it's sad, they prey on anyone, but especially those who don't have a good identity about themselves. kids who don't know who they are will join or affiliate themselves with a gang in order to receive that self-identity.

of course, in certain areas (e.g., the neighborhood where i grew up and i'm just outside of nowadays), it's extremely difficult to NOT be in a gang.

and for someone who doesn't like comments, gabs, you sure like to leave 'em.

Oh.  Sorry, never been to Cali, and I have never run into a Mexican here at all.  Well, apart from some nuns that is. 

What does idk mean?

Nice to meet you Gabrielle.Well, at least her mom knows Jesus.  That's a start.  LD kids are draining even when you have the Holy Spirit to help you.  I can't even imagine it otherwise.  Poor thing, she must be at her wits end. 

'i don't know'

i learned that from having alisa saying it five million times before i realized there was some significance there.

but, other than that, one of those rare moments when i can figure things out all by my lonesome.

LOL!  you're so....silly.