Our local paper arrived today, and as expected, the state champion football team made the cover and there were several articles inside. I haven't really read those yet, but I paged through a fair bit of the paper like I always do, jumping around from the front to the back. It's the end of the fiscal year for a number of local school districts, ( Read more... )

When we got back from grocery shopping this morning, my mom was just putting on a DVD. Ooh, what are we watching? An exercise tape? A movie from Netflix? What, what? She went, I'll show you. Oh, you can just tell me; it's probably nothing I want to watch. And then she held up the cover for the DVD of My So-Called LifeMind: BLOWN ( Read more... )

Well, isn't this fitting.

Happy anniversary to me!

It's been three years since I joined Livejournal. Why not kill two birds with one stone--discuss the occasion *and* turn it into a fact?

Back in 2004, when I was still in the throes of teaching, I had several friends who had online journals. Two of them, Laura (formerly achtungbaby1980) and Frank (fishman473), were on ( Read more... )

You may be wondering why I went with Angela Chase as a user name, seeing how (if you know me) it's nowhere near my real name. I know, gasp, a fake name! Back in the day, two of my friends and I watched the show "My So-Called Life." We were amazed at the parallels between Angela and me. She had one friend who was totally crazy and freeing ( ( Read more... )