(maybe through gritted teeth, but still ( Read more... )

 Oy.  I have 2.5 eventful weeks to dump into one post?  This is gonna get long.  You have been warned ( Read more... )

Drove back home Sat after class(es?), got back around 6.  Enjoyed getting to spend some time with Mom and Cori... we realized that the raspberry-rhubarb sauce I had thrown together Thursday was ridiculously good over vanilla ice cream, eaten while watching Marie Antoinette.  Which was not a particularly good movie, but the costumes were gorgeous.

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 "Just as I need to garden, to dig my hands into soil and draw substance from the earth, I need to read and draw substance from words."  - Karen Smith

So I don't know who the author of the quote is, really.  My first thought was a children's writer, but I don't know for sure.  Amazon doesn't agree with me.

Anyway:  Reading Comprehension in Elementary ( Read more... )

 So... I shouldn't be allowed to start reading books at midnight-thirty.  Much less books that are semipredictable, but leave me wanting to know exactly how the ending works out.  And though it was satisfying... it's now just about 2:30, and I shouldn't be awake, but I'm not sleepy.  Merg.

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Twas much fun.  Got to go home, see family, Sarah came down, thinks my family is crazy, Sam was home, got to hang out for a bit, Aunt Annie actually remembered things for more than 30 s at a time, I got little-to-no work done, I need to get on that ( Read more... )

THERE WAS A TOAD IN MY GARDEN YESTERDAY.  IT WAS ADORABLE.  IT SAT THERE AND BLINKED AT ME, AND WHEN I DROVE A STAKE IN TOO NEAR IT, IT SCRUMMAGED AROUND IN THE MESSES OF WEEDS.  HAPPY TOAD = HAPPY VEGGIES?

Basil is stupid.  'germinates in 4-7 days'?  It's been at least 3 weeks.  Maybe I just got a dud packet.  All that's coming up are little plants ( Read more... )