aka I've got a really busy day ahead and some time-sensitive tasks so it made perfect sense to spend the last hour adding commentary and embedding videos in the Lyrics Meme post from yesterday. Umm, right. Now, you should VALIDATE all the time I just, uh, wasted, by clicking over to see what you knew without knowing you knew and check out the ( Read more... )

I'm hanging downtown in advance of w00tstock Austin and heh, I walked past THREE DIFFERENT coffeeshops (two hipster, one Starbucks) and am writing at a pizza place instead. Cause, you know, a coffeeshop would just be so common!

lillian13 Are you coming after all? FYI - I'm at Cozzoli's just across from the Paramount and will be until Dave drops The Boy ( Read more... )

The Boy is off for a four hour bus trip to Dallas, a band competition, and a day at Six Flags (sadly, forecast=rain)Why, yes, it IS 3am local time, thanks for noticing. OTOH I'm not one of the band directors riding with and herding a bus load of tired but wired teenagers for the next fifteen hours ( Read more... )

...is that when you unexpectedly run into an old lover, with your teen in tow no less, it's not weird or awkward. It was GREAT to see him (and he looked wonderful, rawr!) but it wasn't until I was driving home later that I even thought to be happy that I was looking pretty good rather than straight from the gym or something ( Read more... )

 ARGGHH ( Read more... )

...your child is reading your friend's books as class assignments!

The Boy's Media Law class is reading The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System by my old UT Young Democrat comrade (now Media Studies guru) Siva VaidhyanathanLife=odd. Yes ( Read more... )

I probably should fight this overwhelming urge to refer to my son as "Emo Boy", right?

Thought so.

But...geez (he really is sometimes).

The Boy, staying after school to retake his Japanese exam, called to request that I stop by and get him "something" from Mighty Cone before I pick him up at 4:30 (the amazing So. Congress Ave. lineup of food from trailers is about two blocks from his magnet school ( Read more... )

 We've made it through most of the week now and the end is in sight!

The Boy had/has FOUR major exams this week. The soul sucking kind where you have to sit in the same classroom for hours and hours until everyone in the ENTIRE grade has finished the exam before you can read or draw or do anything except SIT! Actually one teacher did left them put ( Read more... )

I just had an email from the Magnet Program Director stating that the Principal will continue to follow the District policy/existing school policy and that the ban will be on cell phone USE during the instructional day rather than cell phone possession ( Read more... )