The first post (#1)

Good day to all.  So everyone has a blog, everyone likes to type things about themselves or about how the world sucks or how the world doesn't suck or how their ex-boyfriend sucks.  If you think this is my first attempt at a blog (or something of the sort) then you are incorrect.  During the days of AOL I had my blog going strong and would update every week or so.  It was more of a diary about my personal life but it was still very exciting and I'd like to think the 3 people or so that read it enjoyed most of the posts.  I think AOL Hometown shut down so I don't even know if I can access my old posts :( 

We will have to wait and see what happens.

But enough boring lines about this blog.  Since this is the first post I figure I should kinda lay out what I will be writing about.  People that write blogs write about what they like, so here it is: music, sports, politics, social justice and my views on certain topics that may or may not fall into the set listed about 10 words ago.  I will also post old stuff that I have written back in the days.  It is always fun to read about your life 4 or 6 years after you wrote something.

A couple other things to consider:

• My identity is quite possibly the most important thing about me, and the most imporant thing to me.  I am Latino, Tejano, a U.S. citizen, Mexican, Mexican-American, Salvadoran, Salvadoran-American, etc.  Nomenclature is important to everyone and each 'label' has its own meaning.  Since I know it can be difficult to keep up: yo soy Latino.
• I write what I feel.  Sometimes I guess it can be offensive and sometimes I regret what I write BUT it must stay and I must stand by it.  You see, while we can regret things we do, or say, we should never regret the things we think and feel.  We feel how we feel and think how we think.  Maybe it's not always right, but how else can you stay true to yourself.
• I am a teacher who loves his students and his job (most days) but I will try my best not to write about that.  That doesn't mean I won't write about the education system or related topics but I don't know if I want to write about my personal experiences linked to education (from the teaching side of it).
• Feel free to comment and NEVER feel like you have to agree.  The world would be boring if we were all the same and thought the same about the same things. same same same, I realize that I typed 'same' 3 times so I added 3 more to make it a total of 6.
• If you are going to steal something I say at least give me credit for it.
• Ok...never say never I will edit when I feel a word doesn't make sense or the spelling is off.  I hate misspelled words.  So yeah I will edit in those cases!

There.  That's it for now ladies and gentlemen (imagine how creepy that would sound if 'and gentlemen' was removed from that last sentence (ok I stole that from Demetri Martin but still, creepy...)).