I just discovered www.walkscore.com, and have been spending some time inputting addresses from places I've lived.

Some interesting data: My current home near downtown Long Beach gets an 85/100: Very Walkable. This is quite true. Lance and I can get to most places we need to get to on foot, excluding our jobs.

My parents house in Belmont Park ( Read more... )

I'm pretty sure Lance and I saw two of the people from our dance class make a date last night. I overheard her say something like, "I did already see that movie, but I'd love to see it again!" Then Lance saw a big hug before they got in their cars ( Read more... )

Ok, so I'm writing a semester-long Film As Literature class for high school Juniors and Seniors. I'll be focusing on analysis of how the elements of film create meaning (not film adaptations, as everyone seems to think), guided by my Giannetti textbook from college ( Read more... )

So the other day I was picking Lance up from work, and this piece about Chinua Achebe's opinion of Heart of Darkness came on NPR.

I was quite disappointed to hear Achebe's continued opinion of HoD, as it is one of my favorite books. (Coincidentally, I had recently started rereading it. A friend was reading it for grad school, and it got me ( Read more... )

So my diagnosis has come back as Sjogren's Syndrome. It's an autoimmune disorder that attacks the moisture glands and creates musculoskeletal pain, among other things.

I've got four (!!) prescriptions to pick up (steroids, vitamin D, naproxen, and hydroxychloroquine) an eye doctor visit, and a chest X-ray coming up.

Apparently Grandma has this as ( Read more... )

Rich (Winston's daddy) has some interesting things to say about Bruno ( Read more... )

So today I emailed the Dude at Preferred District to ask if all the openings were settled for this year, or if something might still open up.

I also told him that I would be interested in middle school positions in addition to high school, which is a pretty big departure from my previous desires.  But I'm starting to feel like kind of a loser who ( Read more... )

Right now, the following things are not working in my house:  doorbell, clothes dryer, garbage disposal ( Read more... )

I had my follow up appt. with my rheumatologist today, and she's putting me on megadoses of vitamin D for the next 8 weeks to get those levels up.  Other than that, there's nothing really wrong with me that they can tell.  However, while I was talking to her, my feet went a little purple, which happens to me regularly when it's cold or when my legs ( Read more... )

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