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Happy Thanksgiving!
Popping back out of the ether to wish all my American flisties the happiest of happy Thanksgivings! I hope you're celebrating with the ones you love. :) -
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This is the day that never ends... yes, it goes on and on, my friends...
some people started living it, not knowing what it was, and they'll continue
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Writing soon!
Just a handful more things to do and I'll be done with the apartment! Then I have two weeks of the easy life, staying with my sister and brother-in-law, before insanity sets in again, in the form of signing the final papers on the condo and, at last, MOVING IN. Those two weeks will be spent writing, damn it. I've had both desire and inclination the ( Read more... ) -
Open letters
Dearest darling seventh graders ( Read more... ) -
Oh, for the love of God. Again?
From our local newspaper:
Gulf
oil platform explodes, burns off Louisiana coast.
Gulf coast folks, I'm thinking about you. :( -
Embarrassing!post is embarrassing
Sorry about the OMGPANIC post yesterday. It looks really stupid when I look ( Read more... ) -
Mild panic
School starts in a week, and my smallest class (the one of really low math students) has 33 kids. Several classes have 35 ( Read more... ) -
You know you're a Sherlock convert when...
...you look at your classroom posters and can hear Benedict
Cumberbatch's voice saying, "Of course 'listen' and 'silent' are spelled
with the same letters, but that doesn't necessarily predicate the need for
one in order to ensure the other."
*headdesk* dameruth, this is all YOUR FAULT. -
Getting ready!
We're going to do a lot more in the way of games and student-led activities this year, and I just prepped one that's gonna be fun. It's called "MathMania", and it's actually referenced in the first unit my higher kids start. It's basically Jeopardy!, but with math stuff. I've got adding fractions, subtracting fractions, adding decimals, subtracting ( Read more... ) -
Quick update
Went to Maryhill, WA Monday & Tuesday to do a bit of exploring. Ladies and gentlemen, if you're ever in south Central Washington (VERY south, right on the Columbia River), the Maryhill Museum of Art is worth a stop. You can easily spend all day there, between the royal collection of Queen Marie of Roumania, the incredible oil paintings, the 200-or- ( Read more... )