I really like reading Ann's blog entries.  Every time I follow a piece of advice that she gives, good things happen. For example, last year I used her post about the The 80/20 Principle to work on my own weight loss, and it worked.  Then she posted about boldness, and I made it my personal goal to Be Bold in 2013.  So far that has been most ( Read more... )

Oh man ( Read more... )

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I missed the internet live chat with Gro last night.  FML FML FML FML FML X 12093847918743592837495827435^FOREVER ( Read more... )

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I rewatched the original The Karate Kid today.  We showed it to the students for this year's Year 7/8 project on 'Conflict, Resilience and Resolution'.  The Year 7/8 project is this thing we do at the end of the year that's based on inquiry learning.  It basically goes for about a week, and kids pick a topic to research that fits the overall ( Read more... )

Guys, I am crushing so hard on Gro Hammerseng. It's ridiculous. I know I tend to rebound heavily on celebrities/fandoms whenever my real life relationships/crushes/obsessions fail, so it's probably just that ( Read more... )

It's time again for my Sunday night emo post.

I finished reading Dragons of the Hourglass Mage and two scenes got to me in particular.  The first was Flint's death, which I knew they would revisit and was somewhat prepared for, but I underestimated how damn sad it would still be and was surprised by how quickly I got teary.  The second was the ( Read more... )

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Haven't gotten to sleep yet. Haven't finished my essay either. Basically I've been procrastinating all night ( Read more... )

I had such a good dream this morning.  SUCH A GOOD DREAM.

( Read about my epicly uber awesome dream of AWESOMENESS )

Man. I've developed this totally weird belated crush on Tania. SO BELATED. I've written in here a few times about her, actually, over the years. Posts about how awesomely hot she is. So anyway. I found her a few months ago on Facebook, but was too chicken to add her. Then, a couple of days ago, I read The Blue Place by Nicola Griffith, ( Read more... )