G's off at Frostburn and it wasn't a Kidlet or clinic escorting weekend, so Chad and I had a very quiet, relaxed couple of days together. Sunday we finished off Buffy Season 6 (largely because I really want to show him Creepy!NathanFillion in Season 7), and we at least managed enough housecleaning that we turned up the missing Netflix DVDs. Now ( Read more... )

Kenyon Anti-Outsourcing Progress
Campus Worker Justice Tour Kicks Off At Kenyon College -- Have I mentioned recently how proud I am of our community and our students?
Kenyon Community Alliance on Facebook -- if you're not FB-afflicted, and would like to be kept up to date on their work, send me a message and I'll get it to Melanie; I've already ( Read more... )

Copying over a bunch of stuff from FB, because one of the many things that drives me up the wall about the interface is how hard it is to keep track of anything over there. One of the other biggest issues is the lack of anything similar to LJ-CUT, to allow a warning and opt-out option for folks who don't want to encounter specific topics or nsfw ( Read more... )

Tired and melancholy today, not really sure what direction I'll end up going with this post. So much to mention or discuss, so little time or focus at the moment. I suspect it's going to be a grab-bag ( Read more... )

The vast majority of my online time and energy is currently dedicated to the Kenyon union-busting nightmare. I'll be sporadic here in the meantime because like it or not (I don't!) Facebook is the necessary tool for online organizing these days. Expect me to be basically MIA for at least the next week, possibly longer ( Read more... )

Particularly for my friend Tami's daughter, but I'm making it quite broad, so hopefully it'll be helpful for any budding young science geeks. Since I don't have a lot of time left tonight, I'm just starting with magazines. I'm a huge fan of magazine subscriptions for kids. I had a lot growing up, and the excitement of their new arrival always ( Read more... )

I was trying to remember "One Tin Soldier" to sing to Kidlet last night, and that got me thinking of other peace and protest songs from that general era. This is me playing around with which of those I think are most likely to connect with kids (while also not getting them singing lyrics about sodomy and weed in school). In those cases where it's ( Read more... )

It is a GOOD day ( Read more... )

Hey, finally! I was beginning to wonder if my background check had turned up something problematic, but after a few months of chasing the volunteer department at Metro they finally got back to me again, discovered the forms hadn't processed, and got them through. I go in next week for orientation and TB testing (I'm at a building with no patient ( Read more... )

This is as much for my own reference right now as anything else. I just picked up a bunch of new kids books (since they tend to run about .69 to 2.00 or so with membership), and now that I've figured out how to download the "synchronized images" I'm all psyched about them.

Audible for Kids: Synchronized Images -- Well, hey! I was wondering about ( Read more... )