Dear GOD did I have something beautiful happen ( Read more... )

I just had a surprisingly good day.

My grade eights were tackling e.e. cummings, and that's no small feat. One of the girls asked if she could keep a copy of [i carry your heart with me(i carry it in] , and I think I nearly died from joy. She was attracted to the absolute nature of the poem, how entire the notion of carrying someone's heart is. For ( Read more... )

What the actual hell?

I'd planned to set aside all of today to get planning for tomorrow done. Friday night and Saturday were days for me. Movies, grocery shopping, all that jazz. Sunday was going to be work day.

I woke up at seven, made coffee, and sat down to get started on everything.

I have everything ready for all five of my classes tomorrow -- ( Read more... )

Oh, so seven extra students added to my cooking class without me getting a heads up?
No big deal. We'll make waffles. Then Spanish fritattas (which, be-tee-double-you, ended up being enjoyed by all staff present as well as the students, impressed the hell out of the principal, and earned me four requests for the recipe as well as a and you said you ( Read more... )

Set up my classroom.
(LIKE A BOSS.)

Impressed the principal.
(LIKE A BOSS.)

Planned some lessons.
(LIKE A BOSS.)

Did some unit outlines.
(LIKE A BOSS.)

As you can probably assume from the tone and repetative nature of this entry, I'm doing well. This will have to be re-evaluated Monday afternoon once I've taught my first day of classes.

Being the low woman ( Read more... )

Because Ryan Kesler makes everything better. And shirtless Ryan Kesler even more so. And there is absolutely nothing that a shirtless, smirky, smartass-y Ryan Kesler cannot fix.

And that's really all.

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My little sister Jewels and I were chatting via Skype this morning.

She sent me a picture that she thought I'd like, and indeed I did. I imagine that there are those among you who will also appreciate this.

The story is that there's actually a professor out there that does their marking and runs their class through experience points, letting you ( Read more... )

1) It looks as though the "Conflict" universe is expanding.
I had a conversation via e-mail with Katt yesterday wherein I whinged bounced some ideas around and hashed out characterization with her.
(And Katt? Thanks for that, by the way.)
Based on said conversation, "Closing Time" will not be the final story of this...I don't know. Sequence thing. It ( Read more... )

I HAVE RETURNED.
Quebec was very, very good to me. I come back to you much more french than I left and with a lot of great experiences under my belt.

The shittiest part was the fact that I had two all-out tonic clonic (read: grand mal) seizures while I was there. No pity parties, please, and no condolences. It sucks, but I'm dealing, and I have an ( Read more... )

This entry is brought to you by severe levels of X-Men flail.

1) Dennis Calero, the man who illustrated X-Men Noir and X-Men Noir: Mark of Cain is going to be at the next Emerald City Comic Con.
I adored both of the runs, and I desperately hope that Marvel does another one soon.
Dennis Calero also happens to be an awesome guy. The first time I went ( Read more... )