OK, I blew it last weekend, and, like a diet, I decided "OK, I missed a day, let's go nuts and miss a whole lot of days!" But I'm back ( Read more... )

I have training as a mediator. Specifically, much of it was divorce mediation training, but not all; certainly my certificate from Cornell's Industrial and Labor Relation's school in Alternative Dispute Resolution was not focused at all on divorce, but rather business and other kinds of mediation. I mediated a couple of divorces after I finished ( Read more... )

I quit going to the gym when I had my shoulder surgery last March. I kept meaning to go back, and I actually did go back for a while in the fall, but felt way too overcommitted time-wise and so stopped. But I'm back ( Read more... )

Hi everyone. I'm home ( Read more... )

( First of all, everything and everyone are fine. )

This quarter I used Second Life in one of my physics classes. It wasn't a very organized effort; I've never done this before, so it was a learning experience for all of us. Some things worked, I think. Some did not. I will assess and reframe and try again in the fall ( Read more... )

Is anybody here (other than my Most Dearest Love) using Google Voice? I have often wished that I could give students my cell number for text messages, but that seems like a chancy thing to do. Ninety-nine percent of them would be fine, but there's always that one percent, and I don't want to have to change my number. This seems like a great way ( Read more... )

You know, I should recognize what it means to avoid the scale. It means that I know I'm putting on weight, but I don't want to acknowledge it, and often I succeed so well that I'm horrified the next time I step on. I have regained a substantial amount of the weight that I've lost since February (roughly half) and the time to stop and eat right is ( Read more... )

I have been such a good girl about going to the gym! Since early July, I've been going 3X a week, missing only upon genuine provocation. And now I've made enough gains that I don't want to lose them. This weekend I experimentally went into an inelegant squat (I won't tell you what Paul said) just to see if I could do it, and I could! Easily. ( Read more... )

Classes started 3 and a half weeks ago, and I have been swamped! I promise to update soon, I really do, but I've been so busy! This weekend should be a little better.

I hope.

Bye for now.