Mr. James Rumps
FCA Sponsor
Westside Jiu-Jitsu Sponsor
'It's a GREAT day to be a Wildcat!"
FCA Sponsor
Westside Jiu-Jitsu Sponsor
'It's a GREAT day to be a Wildcat!"
2025-2026
Schedule:
1st Hour - English 1 - Room 109
2nd Hour - English 1 - Room 109
3rd Hour - College English Bridge - Room 109
4th Hour - FMP - Room 109
5th Hour - English 1 - Room 109
6th Hour - Conference Period
7th Hour - Study Hall - Cafe
8th Hour - English 4 - Room 109
Education and Credentials
Illinois State University
Bachelor of Science
Year: 2000
Major: English
St. Xavier University
Master of Arts
Year: 2006
Teaching and Leadership
Books That I've Published:
The Warrior Path MMA Progression Series Level 1 - Muay Thai Basics
Mr. Rumps' Top 5 Favorite Books:
Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis
Joshua, by Joseph Girzone
Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn
The Obstacle is the Way, by Ryan Holiday
"Curiosity" by Alistair Reid
Curiosity
may have killed the cat; more likely
the cat was just unlucky, or else curious
to see what death was like, having no cause
to go on licking paws, or fathering
litter on litter of kittens, predictably.
Nevertheless, to be curious
is dangerous enough. To distrust
what is always said, what seems
to ask odd questions, interfere in dreams,
leave home, smell rats, have hunches
do not endear cats to those doggy circles
where well-smelt baskets, suitable wives, good lunches
are the order of things, and where prevails
much wagging of incurious heads and tails.
Face it. Curiosity
will not cause us to die--
only lack of it will.
Never to want to see
the other side of the hill
or that improbable country
where living is an idyll
(although a probable hell)
would kill us all.
Only the curious have, if they live, a tale
worth telling at all.
Dogs say cats love too much, are irresponsible,
are changeable, marry too many wives,
desert their children, chill all dinner tables
with tales of their nine lives.
Well, they are lucky. Let them be
nine-lived and contradictory,
curious enough to change, prepared to pay
the cat price, which is to die
and die again and again,
each time with no less pain.
A cat minority of one
is all that can be counted on
to tell the truth. And what cats have to tell
on each return from hell
is this: that dying is what the living do,
that dying is what the loving do,
and that dead dogs are those who do not know
that dying is what, to live, each has to do.
- Alastair Reid
If you watch the video above, you'll see what we do in the Westside MMA club.
I went with my family and some friends to Kenya to help build housing for those in need of medical treatment.