My mom is a teacher at an online charter school (she works with middle schoolers but I believe it's all grades). Basically the parents are the ones who make sure the kid does the homework, but the teachers give lessons via chatrooms and phone calls, call the student and parent regularly, and grade the student's assignments and tests. Most of the ( Read more... )

There are zombie walks in southern California.

I WILL WALK AS A ZOMBIE ONCE MORE!!!


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Fleece bathrobe + the dryer + me = very yes. *mmmmmmmm, literal warm fuzzies*

...and I'm literally falling asleep in my computer chair and biting my tongue on accident when I startle awake. Yep, bedtime it is!

This past week I've taken a few bird walks around the neighborhood after getting off work. Today yielded Yellow-rumped Warblers, Bushtits (I found another nest! and probably freaked out the neighbor in whose yard it was in by standing there staring at it for five minutes), House Sparrows, House Finches, American Crows, American Robins, Rock ( Read more... )

This is the first time in a long time I'm really regretting not having more spaces for LJ icons. Last night's episode of The Office got me all schmoopy and now I want like 50 Jim/Pam icons. XD Last night I had a hilarious dream about them, too. Gah, they put me back into full shipper mode! Well, perhaps not *full* shipper mode, as I have no ( Read more... )

1) Somehow there is no fucking hot water and I am really disgusting and NEED a shower and so I'm waiting in here for the hot water to come back... and then my brother just jumped in the shower. FUCK YOU, assface!

2) They stole my life! This was in the engagements section of the newspaper today: Jennifer is a graduate of Oregon State University ( Read more... )

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This is what I do with my free time. Make shitty videos of birds to music I stole from my DDR program. Yep ( Read more... )

'cause I'm an enormous nerd ( Read more... )

Because I'm an enormous dork, and also because I'm bored but don't feel like typing up my adventures in Pullman, WA, or those in Corvallis... I present to you me being, like, the biggest nerd ever. Well, probably not ever. But still.

If you've never played Portal, it's fucking badass. See?

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The computer's amazingly snarky and eventually evil ( Read more... )

A guy at the coffeeshop tonight was totally checking me out. He was doing that whole "Oh hey I'm looking in your general direction and making eye contact with you except I'm pretending that's not what I'm doing, even though I am... aaaaah time to look away calmly and discreetly now" thing. WTF. When does this kind of thing happen. Especially ( Read more... )