( Wherein I talk about faith stuff ... )

Got my most recent paper back from Early American Literatures. Prof loved it. I have another one due this week. I have no idea what to write. I've picked a favorite pair of texts and cannot muster the brain power to say anything intelligent about them. Curses. Expecting the rough philosophy exam back this afternoon. Although I probably won't do ( Read more... )

Particularly since sonflower886 cannot stalk me on facebook any more access other social networking sites, I'm really trying to write here more often.

I had a delightful moment on the phone (to call it a conversation would be a stretch I think) with a student's parent today. The student has been out sick a lot this trimester (according to the student herself, ( Read more... )

Every time I log into LJ there are more days between the present and the last time I posted. I've been perpetually convinced that I don't have anything really interesting to make up a post, which is not due to lack of interesting things happening in my life, but due to lack of available brain-power at the end of a day to put those interesting ( Read more... )

Sorry, I just needed not to have another post titled 'stuff' or 'updatery'. This title has nothing whatsoever to do with the following blurb.

Funny, short post by otterdance here.

Tests back from two classes today. One was pretty dang good. The other, which I expected to be the deepest pit of black shame, was  only a somewhat deepish pit of charcoal-gray ( Read more... )

Crazy. Frickin. Busy.

Loving life though.

Survived my first day of teaching with moderate to good success. Whoohoo me! Random highlight of the first day: three of the boys (note my sexist surprise here) the BOYS in my intermediate high school Latin class have read all the Twilight books. Random. And awesome.

Patricia Briggs' Hunting Ground is a ( Read more... )

I promised that I was going to start posting more regularly again. And considering that it's only been two weeks since my last post and it'd been a month since the post before that, I feel like I'm adhering to the 'more' part of that promise.

Today was the first of several things. The first day of Teacher Training (at which I became more convinced ( Read more... )

So, I've been absent from the blogosphere for a month ... or maybe better. I'm hoping to fix that. Hoping. In that time I moved. I survived Applied Literary Criticism. And I'm now moving my mom. The last is a long, somewhat irritating story. Another month's worth of 'this too shall pass.'

I've also been back and forth a gagillion times bit with my ( Read more... )

So, in addition to having exceedingly minimal internet time available to post stuff lately, I also feel like I have very little interesting to say.

Applied Lit Crit plugs on. I continue to be surprised at the magical combination of a teacher who relates well to me and the fruits of years of writing practice equaling lots of high marks for what ( Read more... )

Another crosspost from Anu Garg's Word of the Day, in which the note is the most interesting portion:

defenestrate

PRONUNCIATION:
(dee-FEN-uh-strayt)
MEANING:
verb tr.: To throw someone or something out of a window.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin de- (out of) + fenestra (window).

NOTES:
There have been many defenestrations over the course of history, but the ( Read more... )