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Name:	James Mangas
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After years of working for the man, I have walked away from a dead end job and decided to be the man. After spending a lifetime of wanting to be a writer, I have finally become the writer I always wanted to be. I stopped worrying about how I would pay the bills and embraced the great unknown, enjoying every moment of the adventure. While still struggling to find a publisher and get paid for my writing I have stumbled into tutoring students and working on term papers and essays for hire. I have always been told I would make a great teacher and never doubted that, nor did I doubt I would have fun teaching...I never realized how much fun I would have teaching people how easy it is to learn! The vast majority of subjects I tutor in, (most being college students) are subjects I have no knowledge in, which ironically makes the tutoring a blast for both the student and myself. We learn together and what I excel in is showing them how I come to understand the subject while all the while challenging the subject and searching for a greater truth. In doing so, I teach them to understand what answers their professors are most likely looking for, but more importantly, I teach them to don't stop there and look for any evidence of variations of answers or opinions. In doing this, I have watched several students go from hating the subjects they are studying to not only enjoying them but becoming more and more excited about what they are learning. It has been a real blast!

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	lkcho78 wrote on 11/18/2009 11:09:43 AM Miss chatting with you also. Life moves on and happens. Life has been happening to me. Spending lots of alone time at beach lately myself contemplating life. Not willing to share right now. Maybe another time. Hope you have a good week.

	lkcho78 wrote on 11/13/2009 9:59:47 AM Happy Friday! How are you doing?

	lkcho78 wrote on 11/4/2009 3:22:08 PM Hope u r doing well. I am about to drop dead from exhaustion. Too many things to do and not enough time and not enough of me to go around. Just need to get through today, rather, need to get through this week.

	bob wrote on 11/3/2009 2:39:24 PM Here is a link for your web site. Great for improving your ranking on google and a place to send visitors to see reviews of your business.nhttp://www.mycity.com/mc-business-guide/business-tools.php

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/31/2009 10:02:49 AM Sounds like a fun Halloween for you. I am house sitting and might watch a movie with a friend. Who knows yet? For now, I am working and doing homework. And working. Lol . . . hope you are going to have success in the tutoring thing. Have a good weekend!

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/30/2009 9:46:15 AM Happy Friday! Doing anything for Halloween tomorrow?

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/29/2009 4:57:55 PM Well that is good that your essay is almost done. Who are you thinking of selling it to? Any place in particular? I am getting excited about writing this weekend, we shall see what happens. i hope tutoring gets better and that you get more business. Have a good rest of the day!

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/29/2009 4:25:54 PM Hello, happy thursday! How are you? How is tutoring? I was awke after midnight last night and for the first time in a few weeks, I picked up a pen and journal and started writing. It was not for long, maybe about 15 minutes or so. But after I wrote and read back what I wrote, I was amazed and floored. Made such an amazing revelation about my writing last night. I was so excited about it. How is your essay going along?

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/28/2009 5:29:09 PM My day is slow. Business can be better, way better. Everyhting else in life slowed down this week a bit. Except for the stress level. At an all time stress level today. Kind of wanted to hide in a hole until the year was over. I need a vacation, or at least a weekend without having to think about work or school or anything. My writing has been a stand still this week. Doing more reading for pleasure than for school or for myself. Thinking about how to grow business is really stressing me out today. Hopefully it will get better soon. Is tutoring slow all the time?

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/28/2009 9:30:45 AM So this morning when I logged onto mycity.com, it said I have 666 comments posted on my board. Hmmm . . . 666? Could that be an omen for something? Lol . . . I suppose if you believe in that stuff it can be. As for me? Who knows? Crazy winds last night, right? Still cold today. Haven't worn a sweater in a while and today I had to. Don't like being cold. Like warmness. How is tutoring and your essay going? Have an awesome day!

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/27/2009 4:18:12 PM There are definitely days when nothing goes right. There are days when everything goes right. Such is life and what makes it interesting, isn't it? Just the way life goes. I got a great book from the library to read again. First time I read Prozac nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel, I was amazed by her memoir and her courage to write about such a difficult time in her life. Great book to read if you haven't done so already. I am totally looking forward to reading it all over again. I am determined to write a book next year, or at least start it and I like her style.

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/27/2009 3:53:36 PM We are stuck to the internet like glue. When televisions first came out, I can imagine parents telling their children not to watch so much tv. Now with the internet, everything and anything can be found and done on it. Kind of crazy. Most people are so lost without it that they have it on their phones also. Not me. I refuse. I hop online to check messages and to find out info but only at work. Once home and leaving work, the internet is long gone and history until I go to work again. My day is okay. How is your day?

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/26/2009 6:35:14 PM My weekend was good and yet different. This past weekend was about doing new things and trying new things. And seeing if I like them. The weekend before was about trying old things in a new way. That was different. But both weekends were enjoyable. Learned a whole bunch about myself both weekends, different things. Overall, made some decisions and had good weekend.

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/26/2009 5:08:14 PM Not a problem. Sometimes we are way too connected to the internet and technological things in our lives. At home I do not have a computer temporairily because my mother put a virus in it. So when I go home there is no internet for me. I love it, it is a break away from the world. If I need something for school, I make sure to get it done on time at work. Forces me to do things ahead of time. My weekend was good also. Hung out with friends and slept in on Sunday and had good food. Enjoyable.

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/26/2009 9:14:54 AM Hello there, how are you? How was your weekend?

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/22/2009 4:07:47 PM ...I am getting burned out on writing. i enjoy writing in my journal and writing here and there but having written so many papers this semester and it will only get worse as I take senior level classes, I am okay with taking things slow as far as writing a book for now. So how is tutoring going? How is your day going? The weather is so nice but I think I got sniffles. Which really suck because I have plans for the rest of the week with friends and I have to work and I do not have time to get sick. Can't wait til Sunday when I sleep in. Have a great one!

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/22/2009 4:05:36 PM ...And pose that as fiction. The issues of maybe people recognizing themselves in a memoir is too annoying for me to deal eith at this point. Not that many people would recognize themselves, seeing that most of my friends do not pick up a book and read anymore. Although they would all read mine because it is me. To support me. Kind of them but I do not want hassle or have to deal with anyone's anything. So I think I will write a fiction very loosely based on my life and see where it goes. Who knows what will happen? at this point, I have so many papers to write.

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/22/2009 4:03:21 PM Wow, you have got some very strong opinions there. Class went well. I turned in my paper and had a pop quiz and got homework. And more reading for the next paper and preparing for a term paper. Lots of school work to do, in addition to work and going out. Busy life right now. Can't seem to sit still or stay home a night lately. Having too much fun. I was thinking about the book that I want to write next year. I wanted to write a memoir about how I became the person that I am today. But I think I am going to write a fiction loosely based on my life.

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/22/2009 9:46:11 AM ...It is just the way life is now. Instant gratification and reading and writing does not give it that quick. Takes time. Anyways, have a good afternoon, I am going to get ready for school and help out at work and proof my paper due today. Talk to you later this afternoon! Happy Thursday!

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/22/2009 9:44:46 AM ...No one else has to agree with me, those are just my beliefs. I believe that education and healthcare are two things that are a right to an individual and not a privilege. Politicians have made it a privilege and I do not agree with them at all. Onto other things, I am glad that I can bring a smile to you. i always enjoy reading your posts. Our pages are going to get very long, lol, but it is very enjoyable. There are not too many people who like to read and write anymore. On Facebook, if I write more than 3 sentences, my friends tell me I write alot. Lol . . .

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/22/2009 9:41:24 AM ...healthcare is because of the greedy pharmaceuticals and medical professionls that see a potential for more money in their pockets if we keep doing it the way we are now. I say who cares about the greedy corporations and for once, let's think of the people and society and our health first. When did money become more important than health or happiness? Anyways, I believe that universal healthcare is key to making things a lot better. Just like I believe that the public school system can and will work but there needs to be an overhaul and needs to be redone.

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/22/2009 9:24:49 AM ...I watched a documentary about healthcare and being healthy quite some time ago. It turns out the gov'ts that provide universal healthcare and other health benefits through the gov't and no one is left out of getting any benefit, there is a healthier society and people. Switzerland mandates everyone a vacation from work and pays for it. People are happier at work and going to work and are healthier. So I totally believe in universal healthcare, regardless of a job. Everyone deserves the proper medical care and medicines. The only reason we do not have universal . .

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/22/2009 9:22:26 AM ...Health care is a very touchy issue for a lot of people. I won't get into it but all I will say on that topic is look at places like Canada, who has universal healthcare provided by the government and therefore, no one is without health benefits, with or without a job. Canada seems to be doing very well with that and the people are very healthy also. Switzerland has an awesome universal health care that the gov't provides. And the gov't also provides much more, like paid mandatory vacation, and look how healtheir and happier the citizens are.

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/22/2009 9:19:53 AM Good morning. I hope you had a great night last night. I am in the office for a little while and then I have school today. Of course, I will be back at work after school today. Always works out that way. For some reason, I am really sleepy today. If I could just lay down and go to sleep without having to worry about school or work I so would do that. But alas, that is not the case and I have to move to stay awake. Having a great cup of coffee as I write this is very much helping me to stay awake. Coffee and food, amazing the things I do while I work.

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/21/2009 5:55:48 PM The essay sounds interesting. I am sure some magazine will pick it up from you and buy it, no problem. Do you have other stuff that is published that I can read?

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/21/2009 5:55:03 PM ...I am one to make people smile. I like to make people happy and smile and laugh. I believe that is the way to live life. I try to make people feel comfortable and at ease. Even if I feel uncomrfortable. Just the way I always have been. I would rather make someone feel happy and smile then to see them cry or sad or unhappy in any way. I am way too soft hearted at times. And yet, I can close myself up just as easily and not hurt people but not let anyone in. Just as easy. To protect myself.

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/21/2009 5:52:12 PM ...for the rest of their lives because I would make sure they lived with that fact for the rest of their lives. I am not vengeful and do not seek revenge. What someone puts out is what they will get back ten fold. The person responsible for it will have to live with all consequences given and I would make sure that person responsible knew it. The person being abused is very near and dear to me. I do not understand people who act like that, who get off on hurting others. If I hurt someone's feelings, I feel so bad and I have to apologize right away.

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/21/2009 5:49:56 PM ...As for the abuse of people, I was on a rant this morning about it for quite some time. I wrote a huge blurb on it on paper for a couple hours on elderly abuse and how wrong it was. It angered me so much that it is happening to a person so close to me and yet there is nothing that I can do for them. It just lit me up in such a angry way. Just thinking about it still makes me angry. How can it happen to someone so close to me and yet there is not a thing that I can do? I just knew that if anything happened to this person, the person responsible would regret it . . .

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/21/2009 5:46:35 PM I do agree that only people who want an education should get one. But I also believe that every child should get at least the basic of education. Thus, at a later time, I and others will not have to deal with ignorant people. They will at least have some education to back up their lives with. As for the autistic child, the parents are not from here (US) and feel ashamed that he is that way and refuses not to believe that he is actually disabled. They treat him like a normal person that should understand all and not a disabled person who does not.

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/21/2009 11:10:15 AM Good luck on writing more of the essay. Are you writing it for pleasure or for someone? Hope today is a good day. Today is a wonderful day except for one thing that is bothering me. And it is this: what you put out, good or bad, will come back to you in many times over. Knowing this, why put out bad things out there? Whatever you believe in, Gor od fate or destiny or whatever, is always watching. I have a huge dislike and almost hate for people who abuse women or children or elderly. They do not deserve to be called a human being.

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/21/2009 9:23:36 AM ...As for my night last night, I had tons of fun. Went out to dinner with best friend and then had sugar filled cupcakes til late at night and watched movies. Such fun, especially the sugar at night part. Happy Wednesday! Hope you are having a great day so far! How was your night last night?

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/21/2009 9:22:25 AM ...I said there are programs tailored for people who can talk to people. Like for me, if I had that skill, I would be grateful. I am so shy it is not funny at all. I am way too shy. I would love to be able to just freely talk to people without panicking or being so painfully shy. The little boy can be an actor or be in plays or dramas and be successful that way. Everyone has something they are good at. Even people thhat are disabled. Everyone deserves an education in what they are good at. I am a firm believer in that.

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/21/2009 9:20:29 AM ...They make him feel so bad. It breaks my heart to see him. I asked the parents what is he good at? He still deserves to be treated like a human being and to get an education in what he is good at. So I asked. The parents said that he is such a people person and loves to talk to people, as is the case with many autistic children. I took that idea and ran with it. I asked why he can't be placed in a program where he could succeed more in school by putting him in a program where there is more interaction and less sitting at the desks and writing.

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/21/2009 9:18:01 AM ...I believe in giving everyone a chance to ger educated and learn whatever it is they want to, and find what they are all good at. Everyone is good at something. I know a couple who has two children. One is severely autistic and mentally disabled and the other one is a genius and beautiful and popular. The disabled child failed all his classes. The parents are traditional and do not want to recognize their child has a disability. They do not accept autism. They fail him in so many ways. They do not honor his life at all. They yell at him.

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/21/2009 9:14:53 AM I truly believe that everyone deserves and should have a high school education. I do not believe that the public education system should be done away with. What I do believe is that the public education system needs to be totally re vamped and re done amd re structured with actual educators and not politicians. Politics and education do not mix at all. But I do believe everyone should have an education, at least until high school. Then if they do not, the future, which is the children, will be dumb and no one to take care of us when we get old and they run everything.

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/20/2009 4:22:55 PM ...I hope the rest of your Tuesday goes well. I am going to do some work I guess. And some school stuff also. Feel free to write back and I will check back in a bit to answer back. Love all your postings. Any plans for tonight? I think I am meeting best friend.

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/20/2009 4:21:37 PM ... As for the banks, I blame them for bringing down a whole world economy. I worked for two major banks, one of which no longer exists. But the one that no longer exists, I believe, is the reason for the economic downfall. It was their greed and lust for money that brought down the economy world wide and at the end, brought them down also. They deserved it. I so celebrated when they went down. Very rarely do I trust banking anymore. Very rarely do I trust bankers anymore. There are honest ones out there, I was one. But they are few and far in between.

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/20/2009 4:19:30 PM ... When did education go wrong where they teach us what to think? When did education go wrong where we are told what to learn and how? When did education go wrong where we cannot even sttend higher educational facilities because the gov't wants us to get one but most people cannot afford one? The gov't messed up so bad in there budgets that schools are thinking of closing down and closing programs and not accepting students for enrollment. ridiculous. Big corporations are taking over schools and using the schools as a pawn. Outrageous.

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/20/2009 4:17:28 PM As for the gov't and schools, gov't needs to take a step back in schools and let it go the way it was originally supposed to be, which is that parents have a right to participate in their children's education and should be paticipating in their education. The teachers and principals are not always right and they are not perfect. The teachers tell the students what to do and nowadays, do not let them think for themselves anymore. When did education go wrong where we are not taught to thhink for ourselves anymore?

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/20/2009 4:13:29 PM Wow, your postings are all amazingly wow. As for my paper, it is a one page paper about the summary of the article and do I agree or disagree. That's all. I have done 3 of those already. I got a 9, 8.5 and a 9.5 so far, all out of 10. Not bad, right? I'm a pretty good paper writer. I procrastinate on it a little. But overall, I can write a decent paper. This particular article is an easy one to do for me. My professor is so progressive and forward it is so awesome sitting in his classroom and being able to express ideas that is not considered the "norm."

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/20/2009 10:21:07 AM . . . with only one set of teachers means more students, less classes to choose from, with the same amount of space of one campus and getting rid of most academic programs due to budget cuts. As students, this is an outrage. Imagine putting two campus full of university students on one campus and having even more crowded classroom and less teachers and less classes to choose from. All of that equal disaster and high drop out rates. What were the banks thinking when they brought down the world's economy? Now they are affecting everyone and everything in the world.

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/20/2009 10:18:34 AM . . . The parents can drive them to the activities. The parents can get the children tutoring to make the grades to participate in the activity. The parent can volunteer for the activity. Not saying that all children fall into this category. But from a sociological point of view, education is not about just getting an education anymore. So many other factors play into getting that education for a child. As for the university, they are thinking of closing down my school and merge it with another school which makes no sense at all. More students in one school campus. .

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/20/2009 10:16:12 AM . . . children with lower social status might not be able to participate in an extracurricular activity for many reasons. They have to help at home because the family is poor. Because they help at home, they do not have much time for school and have mediocre or bad grades. Or they do not have time for extracurricular activity and there are no parents to push them in that direction. Look at the opposit end of the spectrum. Upper class parents typically have a parent not working or a parent with time to focus on their child's education and extracurricular activities. . .

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/20/2009 10:13:49 AM . . . involved in their child's education because the social status of the teachers will not let the parents get involved. How the more involved the parent is, the better the child gets treated. It all comes down to money and class and socioeconomic status. That has everything to do with education, not really the amount of time studying from the child and not the parents. Money talks, even in education. I read an article that we have to write the paper anout. The article was about how extracurricular activity is even based on social status. So true . . .

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/20/2009 10:11:33 AM I am taking a class on how politics are involved in education in every way possible. Not only with government but how limited parents actually are in their own children's education and how teachers and counselors and principals actually determine whether a child gets into an AP class or not. About how children living in lower class neighborhoods do not have the same opportunities as upper class students. How lower class students are treated differently. How based on race, a child is treated very differently. How immigrant parents have a hard time getting . . .

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/20/2009 9:40:46 AM Goodness gracious, I seem to be taking up a lot of your message board space. Again, I apologize. I get wordy at times. I hope you had a fabulous Monday and are having an amazing Tuesday. Tuesdays are good because it is almost the middle of the week. I shall be leaving for school in an hour and coming to the office later on in the afternoon. I have a paper to write today due Thursday. All about the politics of education. Gotta love CA and our education program. If you only really know what is going on with the universities lately . . .

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/20/2009 9:38:38 AM . . . level English, I was reading at a 5th grade level English having only been in the US one year at that time. Wuthering Heights is one of my all time favorites. I hated reading Little Women as a child but glad now that my mother forced me to read it. Amazing writing and characters. A good cup of coffee and a great book is easily the best thing to do to pass time away. I will not realize how much time actually passed if I am reading a good book. Last night because of pain I stayed up reading and it was easily 4am before I realized the time.

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/20/2009 9:35:40 AM Reading is my absolute favorite thing to do of all time. Even better than going out or anything else. I always will choose reading over anything else, given the choice. reading is a lost art. I come from readers, my parents are avid readers. I came to the US exactly 25 years ago today and going to ESL at school left me out from the other kids and made fun of because I did not know English. So I learned English with a vengeance and my reading level in one year of learning English shot up 3 years beyond the rest of my class. So while they were struggling at 2nd grade

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/20/2009 9:33:05 AM . . . my life. But my back injury is very painful. But I do not let it stop me from enjoying life to the fullest. I am still active in sports and work and school and the docs tell me that if I keep up my lifestyle, while the disks will not stop slipping, the pain will be more mangeable because I am so used to it. I run everywhere because I do not want to miss out on life. That is possibly the reason I get so little sleep, is because of the amount of pain when I finally stop going at 200%. But who has time to think about pain when there is life to live?

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/20/2009 9:29:56 AM pain is a normal part of my every day life for the last 3 years. I was inu\jured in a job that left me in a lot of pain. Looking at me, no one would ever realize that I am ever in pain. I am so active in life and tunning around everywhere. The pain sets in mostly at night or in the cold or when extremely tired. But yesterday the pain was all day. Actually I have it today also. I used to work for a bank and got attacked by an irate customer and now have 6 slipped disks and for the most part, day to day is fine and no one would ever know it by looking at me or seeing

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/19/2009 2:41:26 PM How is your Monday so far? Sorry for taking up so much room!

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/19/2009 2:40:58 PM Mondays are always the hardest for me, coming off a weekend and wanting the weekend to come agains o soon. But I am learning to love Mondays as much as I love Fridays and Saturdays and Sundays. Lol . . . I am learning to love all the days of the week, good or bad, living life to the fullest. But so far, my Monday has been good. Now if I only had some pain pills to kill my pain then I would have the best Monday ever. As far as insomnia goes, I have it very severly at times and at times, none at all. I just feel like sleeping makes me lose out on life.

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/19/2009 2:38:37 PM But when it comes to reading, I read for the fact that I love to read and not because I have to. I have friends who can do other things but have a problem reading. They do not pick up a book. Me, I can pick up a book and stay up all night reading and not have a problem with it at all. I will be tired but I will be happy. i wish I can do that with text books and school stuff, that I have a harder time with. But I am learning and slowly getting better with school and textbooks. As for my weekend, it was very good. As for my Monday so far, I am having an awesome day!

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/19/2009 2:36:26 PM I do not think of your postings as rantings, I actually look forward to reading your posting. You are the pnly other person I know who would post more than once to finish their thoughts. I do it all the time and people think I write way too much. So I have had to be more shorter with my postings and rants. It sounds like students typical of any school and age to me, what you are describing. I am, at times, like that also. I memorize for the test and forget. Or I study because of the test and not to learn. Very typical of students.

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/19/2009 9:15:32 AM Regardless of stress or anything, this week will be great. Stress brings on more sleep for me also. But stress causes me to not sleep also. Depends on the situation. I do not sleep much unless I am sick or that exhausted and delirious. Too much of life to live. Right?

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/19/2009 9:14:24 AM Happy Monday! The only day I allow myslef to sleep in or at least sleep more thsan usual is Sunday morning/afternoon. Like yesterday I woke up at 2:45pm but as soon as I woke up, I was on the go again. Busy with school and friends. I was actually supposed to come in yesterday to work but I was so bogged down with school that I could not. Other than Sundays, I never sleep very much, 3-5 hours at the most a night. I let myself sleep on Sundays til the late morning. Anyways, I hope you had an excellent weekend. How was tutoring?

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/17/2009 2:19:49 PM I also spend alot of time with family, I work with them, and I also go out with friends about 4-5 nights a week and come home late. When do I have time to do homework and work my butt off at work? Sleep is a privilege at times. I do social networking with mycity.com and do business mixers and go out on client calls and do marketing. Boy, wow, when I write all this, I wonder when I have time to eat and sleep? Lol . . . on top of that lately I have started to write also. Have a great rest of the Saturday!!

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/17/2009 2:17:42 PM Yes! I work full time and go to school full time. Wow, that was a full sentence to say too. Lol . . .I am simutaneously doing many things at once at any given time. I usually am supposed to be at two places at once at any given time lately. Full time just being me right now. On top of that I work late and early and after working late, I have to do schoolwork and write papers and take exams and oral presentations. Tired just thinking about it. Lol . . . I survive on very little sleep.

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/17/2009 10:23:06 AM Good morning James! Well I hope you enjoy your busy weekend. Exams are a wonderful thing, very sarcastically, lol. I have exams and papers coming up too. I am at work right now. My weekend yesterday started off well. Business was good and I had a good time with friends last night. It is going to continue to be well, going out friends tonight and sleeping in tomorrow and hanging out tomorrow. Have a wonderful weekend!!

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/16/2009 4:12:09 PM My weekend will be interesting. I am working today, obviously, and tomorrow. Tomorrow night I am seeing a friend and hanging out. Sunday I probably will sleep in, as I do all Sundays, and then I have plans with a different friend. Busy yet relaxing weekend. Do you tutor all weekend? have an awesome weekend.

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/15/2009 3:05:58 PM I have heard fromothers that I am very interesting in the way I tell my stories, even write my stories. So we shall see. It is a long way off yet. So it is Thursday and tomorrow is Friday, any big plans for the weekend? As you can tell, I am already looking forward to the weekend.

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/15/2009 9:03:40 AM Cool about the tutoring. As far as the writing, right now, I am writing in two different ways and things. One is just writing like a journal. The other writing is because so many people have told me that I need to tell "my story" I have just started writing about who I am today and how I got to this point. Nothing outrageously interesting but it's pretty cool.

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/14/2009 2:27:03 PM Do you tutor college level students or other? Just curious. Your script and essay aound cool.

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/14/2009 10:00:29 AM Essay on mythology? That is interesting. Mythology is such a different topic to write about. What kind of a script? funny? Sad? Drama? I am writing and it is so much fun. I just wish I had more time to do it. So strapped for time. What do you tutor?

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/13/2009 4:43:36 PM Thanks so much, I have been writing every night for a last few nights. Just pouring my heart into my writing and it is something that I am so enjoying. So do you still tutor or do you write?

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/12/2009 6:06:09 PM wow, thank you so much for the great advice and words of wisdom on writing, now i know what to do and how to start and where to begin. everyone tells me i am a good writer and that i should write a book or short story but i want to be more than good, i want to be the best and that is why i seek advice from all who write. advice is always welcomed. writing has been an outlet for me for many years and when i got a bock i stopped writing for a long time, i have recently started to write again and i so enjoy the peacefulness of writing and readin other writings also.

	lkcho78 wrote on 10/12/2009 9:35:38 AM What do you write? I am thinking about it and I just want to know how hard it is and what the process is.

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	darylelee wrote on 09/22/2009 8:09:49 PM Hey JJ good to hear from you! I'm doing well, and glad to hear your doing the same. So you finally left the old "grind" huh? Good for you man. I think I know what the "interesting" news is or at least the jist of it. But would love to hear the full story. Talk to you soon...

	JJ wrote on 09/22/2009 2:11:17 PM Hey Daryle I thought that was you but couldn't be sure from your photo. How are you? I hope all is well. I finally left that horrible job you and I used to have and there is interesting news on that matter as well. I look forward to talking to you soon.

	darylelee wrote on 09/21/2009 7:35:58 PM Did you by any chance work for a man name Greg Sawtelle? I use to work with a james Mangas who was a writer as well. He use to go by "JJ" short for James Joseph. Let me know

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