My CDs from Second Spin arrived this morning! So I am importing them all :)

In the box: The English Beat, The Clash, Squeeze, The Specials -- stuff to fill in gaps in my collection.

It's nice to be rocking out while sipping my kefir.

Clever t-shirts aren't usually "my thing" -- particularly because, well, commercially-made ones tend to not be all that clever. However, I went on a bit of a "bender" and bought these two:

Communism + Bowling = YES PLEASE! The only thing that could be better about this one would be a revolutionary fist grasping a CANDLEPIN pin.


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dawezl JUST BOOKED THE CRUISE.

I am TOTALLY HOOKED UP.

Thanks, maa3120 for getting me in. And thanks to dawezl and jlh1026 for doing all the legwork and pondering over what cabin and what show to book.

Yeah, it's not until February -- that just means many months of the phrase, Hey! I'm going on a CRUISE with Barenaked Ladies, Great Big Sea and totally rad roomies IN ( Read more... )

When maa3120 said she had an extra ticket to see The English Beat, well OF COURSE I wanted to go. 1.) It's maa3120 and 2.) it's British sociopolitical ska/reggae straight out of Birmingham -- what's not to like. Well, it was EVEN BETTER than I had expected. Being maa3120, of course she had front row tickets squarely in front of their HOT bass player (Wayne Lothian) ( Read more... )

GEDUC-457-01
Cultural Foundations of Educ -- A

GEDUC-420-01
Read/Write Across Curriculum -- A

Oh man, MyXer might just be the greatest web site ever in terms of laugh-per-click. lowersecond turned me onto it because you can upload any mp3, select a segment and then text it to yourself as a ringtone. FOR FREE. Well, if you don't have a data plan, you have to pay to download it in terms of the data transfer but you have to pay for that for ringtones ( Read more... )

Say hello to Betsy! Betsy is my new phone. She's busy on the counter getting all juiced up while I fill out a rebate form. <3<3<3 new phone day :)


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When life gives ya a surplus of organic produce you can ...

a.) throw it in the compost heap
b.) do something awesome

Yep, I went with B. Which is why I have a pint 'n a half (or thereabouts) of fresh-squeezed OJ in the fridge and a pan of apple crisp in the oven. YUM!

Tagged by willwrite4foodList seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now, shaping your spring. Post these instructions in your LJ along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they're listening to ( Read more... )

Unlike most times when I am writing a lesson plan for my Reading & Writing Across the Curriculum class, I will actually be teaching FROM this lesson plan tomorrow, to my fellow classmates ( Read more... )