tonight i went out to eat with the fam. we went to a steakhouse. on the short drive over, i got to thinking about america and american identity. ( thoughts on american/regional cultures )

how sad am i that i don't get to watch the national spelling bee this year? suck.

following a link from styletax, i was just reading an article on cnn.com, right? and on the bottom of the page, it has this list of top stories in a few different categories. one of these categories is education. the top stories relating to education today are ( Read more... )

after class today (for which three boys i hadn't seen since the first week of class showed up, incidentally), i went to the shop in the basement to buy a coke. as i entered the shop, i made eye contact with this very petite girl with vaguely red tips on her shorter fringe-y hair. she gave me a huge grin and kind of squealed to herself:) that's not ( Read more... )

eek! i'm posting pictures! hooray! the first thing i'd like to do, now that i can post pictures, is to tell you about my thanksgiving. since i'm posting several pictures, i'll go ahead and cut them. mostly:)


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Poll 50 statesif you know you know all the states, just say "all of them." i ask this because i had an extra credit pop quiz last week in my classes, asking my students to do this. the results alternately pissed me off and made me laugh. they pissed me off some because a fair number of my students cheated, pretty obviously. i hate that. they made me laugh ( Read more... )

i have to tell you some more of my highlights from state speeches this week. today's were too funny ( Read more... )

东方晨曦. that's my name in chinese. dong fang chen xi. can you see the characters on your screens? those are the characters i know well enough to put on here for you. i guess i could give you numbers... 一，二，三， 四， 五， 六， ...right. then i forget how to spell seven, so i have to stop:) you say it "chee." this is fun, this writing in chinese ( Read more... )

two of the little girls who used to be favorites of mine when i used to babysit are having their graduation receptions this weekend. i made a card for one of the girls on photoshop today, with pictures of her and me at camp (i was a volunteer, it was her first time away from home) in '96. it's a super cool card:) i love photoshop.

( about thinking about american culture vs. chinese culture )

my last week at lancaster consisted almost entirely of writing papers. goodbyes were sad, but i think i was more attatched to the country in general than any one particular person. my dad has aerosmith on really loud and i'm being distracted. he's as bad as the 18 year olds who lived by me at university ( Read more... )