There is this awful virus going around school that, as far as any of us can tell, originated with a student that was sent to school sick by his group home. (A common occurrence.) That student was restrained last Wednesday, and most everyone involved in the restraint become ill over the snow break and/or weekend, including Bobby. One of the other ( Read more... )

Our home Internet is down. I won't be back online till Monday, when it's supposedly being fixed, for one, and I'll be able to check my email at work, no matter what.

( The Dog's Breakfast beneath the Cut )

This week represents that last major hurdle before I start student teaching in February. I finish my classroom observations this week, and I finish my linguistics courses. Once those are done, I can send off the last of my internship application. And then ... well, there's still work, one graduate class, and the holidays, but the next few weeks ( Read more... )

That's the noise I make as I surface briefly from the eternally churning sea of chaos that my life is lately to jot some notes in my journal ( Read more... )

Remember Seven in '07? I moved into my house two days before it started and was without Internet for all but the last few days. Running a website without Internet access is fun!

Maybe it's something to do with SWG events. Here I am, three years later, on the brink of another major SWG project, and guess what? The home Internet is out!!

It's ( Read more... )

Bobby and I had just sat down to supper on the patio, and it started to rain. Because we have a big ol' umbrella, we didn't go in right away, but then it really started to rain, so we carried our suppers indoors and watched/listened to the blissful sound of rain hitting our poor dry soil ( Read more... )

When Bobby and I were in Ireland for our last night, we went to a dinner and presentation called "Food, Fairies, and Folktales" that was about ... well, exactly what the title describes! The speaker who presented it was phenomenal, and one of the things he said was common once upon a time in Ireland was for men who maybe had one pint too many and ( Read more... )

This morning, I woke up and there was snow on the ground. Snow! In April! In Maryland! Yes, I know we live in north-north Maryland now but still. Snow in April is ridiculous. Hasn't it ever heard the saying that March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb? What the hell kind of lamb is this? A Monty Python killer lamb ( Read more... )

Yesterday, Dad set up a new desktop computer that he'd built for us. This is my first post on the new computer! Yes, I'm sentimental.

Since my laptop is Pengolodh Lord and Loremaster of Gondolin, and Bobby's laptop is Rúmil of Tirion (even though he calls it Darwin), then this computer is Elemmírë of Taniquetil because, just like a Vanya, he ( Read more... )