I've been accepted to Teach For America - Greater New Orleans 2009 Corps.

Oh my god.

( Some more details, amid the cheers of joy. )

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The heat continues, with the temperature easily over 100 in the shade and over 115 in the sun every day. It's making the last week of digging even more intense than it might otherwise be-- and the last week of digging is, by nature, somewhat stressful. There's not a question of whether or not we'll finish digging the "collapse layer" in our ( Read more... )

This is a ridiculously awesome activist campaign.

Now back to useless academia!

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This weekend felt like it was busy, even though I ultimately spent a lot of it asleep. On Friday, I took off after "half-day Friday" ended work at CUS to Green Empowerment's downtown office to take care of some volunteer tech support work for them. I'd expected it to only take about an hour, but I wound up spending over three there: first an hour ( Read more... )

It may just be because I'm very tired, but I found this video about the ideas of Web 2.0 to be incredibly moving. This is why I believe in technology.

( Reading an unusual magazine this morning led me to think on my parents' history in various communities and the strange forces that make ideologies compete where they don't really need to. Cut for length and footnotes again. )