The Yankee Motto
Use it up,
Wear it out,
Make do,
Or do without.

Today has been a mixed day. On the plus side, my sister came into town and we hung out a little bit before she disappeared down to Rhode Island to see a PawSox game and to visit family friends at the Clingstone mansion in Narragansett bay. Despite the heat I got an enormous amount of progress done on getting unpacked into my room and even sold ( Read more... )

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I have been following the Adult Swim debacle in Boston for a few days now. The whole incident has become a big thing on the internet and will be popular for exactly two more days before we're on to the next thing. Now, the Adult Swim internet hipsters think they know everything but there is a lot more to the incident than is really being let on ( Read more... )

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Today I had my first experience substitute teaching. What the teacher didn't tell me (on purpose I found out later) was how bad her class was. Bad as in frisky, naughty, ill-mannered, and otherwise rather pifflewart-y. It was a crash course in classroom management, a good experience which I will reflect on at length in my teaching journal. The ( Read more... )

It's times like these that make me really proud to be a New Englander. As of about half an hour ago Massachusetts became the first state in the country to make Universal healthcare happen. The bill was the object of some controversy but both sides came together and forged a workable compromise (how often does that happen in politics ( Read more... )