Quote from one of my former students currently going through finals:

"Right now I have all the stability of a goldfish given the One Ring."

There are days when my students make great progress, or even if not, they're doing their best ( Read more... )

New tutoring student sat across the table from me. Getting a late start on SAT prep, but eager, asked a lot of questions ( Read more... )

Okay folks, my buddy Isaac is having a crapola Labor Day.

The boy can dance (the Russky in black, in the middle).

Send him some tunes here!

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"Yes, but describe the setting in the Lord of the Rings," I ask.

The student gives me a vague recap of the entire setting of Middle Earth, including stuff he shouldn't be able to know from the first two chapters of The Fellowship of the Ring"No. I mean in the first chapter. Where do the first scenes take place?" I reel in the net ( Read more... )

Working on college apps today, one of my students talked about running a race. She used the phrase "my body bouncing ( Read more... )

Time for the freekibblekat.com quiz. It's cute.

Then, a little practice, and off to work.

Up at 4am ... don't know what to do with myself. The leftover cough from the laryngitis won't go away and sleep schedule is, as usual, whacked.

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Friday weather report: Sitting in my little flat, the rain has tapered off. Tornado warnings didn't phase the kitty boys who purred next to me, their eyes half-lidded ( Read more... )

Ah, Wednesday, it must be Paris. Or in this case, my "crush" session.

I've two teenage boys I'm tutoring, one in 10th grade, the other in 11th. Both of them have hopeless crushes.

No, not on each other, you slashers.

Today, I even got the batted eyelashes and a sloe-eyed look over the edge of a book. LOL ( Read more... )

I have a student who has a shot at the merit scholarship, though I'm not quite sure he made it. (Darn, those PSAT scores take a long time ( Read more... )