I am officially accepted into the Distance Learning Ph.D. program at the University of Florida!!!!! I will be pursuing a doctorate in Latin and Roman Studies.

Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hallelujah!

That is all.

( Mostly good things to say. A few caveats for certain body types, preference sets, etc. I personally love this car. )

The full name of this book is The Courage To Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life. It actually lives up to the name. This is one of those books that I occasionally get urges to buy fifty copies of and distribute them to every teacher I know. I found out in June that Mr. T had never read it, so this is what I got as a get-well ( Read more... )

Contata was lots of fun. Yay. More later, possibly later this week. Sleep now.

Happy Independence Day! No matter how much certain aspects of my country may exasperate or scare me at times, I am and always will be proud and happy to be American.

Good... uh, good very-early-morning.

This is the short version.

It was awesome. Yay for meeting juldea, tiamat360 for the first time, and seeing many others again. Also, congrats especially to our two newest (male!) Sassafrass members for an awesome debut voice performance set. Everyone else did awesome too ( Read more... )

And we made it to Memorial Day weekend ( Read more... )

So, teachers on my f-list. Tech people on my f-list. Language people on my f-list.

Take just a moment and bask in the interactive potential of combining Rosetta Stone with a SMART Board.

And you will see some of the awesome of my plans for my program next year.

I started Level 1 German last night ( Read more... )

I'm not going to do a long series of food reviews related to my diet. Most of the things I eat are too simple for that, these days. I mean, there's only so much you can say about "baby carrots in a little bag," or "pieces of colby jack cheese." Either you like those foods or you don't ( Read more... )