If I rarely post to LJ anymore, it's because I'm busy student-teaching and taking courses and silly certification exams. But I did come across this posting in a blog I occasionally read...

In Arizona, bad ethnic studies bill becomes law ( Read more... )

Do you care about public schools serving the interests of all its students (not just the mostly white, English-speaking, middle and upper-middle classes)?

Then take a look at what has been going on in Seattle:

The appellants contend that the school district acted arbitrarily and capriciously by voting 4 to 3 to adopt a type of textbook associated ( Read more... )

A must-read essay in the NY Times:

For more than a generation now, we in the West have aggressively spread our modern knowledge of mental illness around the world. We have done this in the name of science, believing that our approaches reveal the biological basis of psychic suffering and dispel prescientific myths and harmful stigma. There is now ( Read more... )

Cute blue and white Schwinn vintage.

A little rusty, but it folds up! Also, I love the powder blue color.

A cool, newer black-and-white that's a bit out of my price range.

Gold cruiser with coaster brakes!

Silver.

I'm still a little confused about what size frame I need, tho.

When I lived in Seattle, I had a bike. Looking back on it now, I realize that I didn't particularly like this bike. It was heavy, and maroon. (Maroon is not a color that appeals to me.) The handlebars were low, so I had to hunch over, and braking eventually required me to wear wrist braces to avoid pain. It had an unintuitive gear shifter and (I ( Read more... )

We're in the middle of a kitchen reno here. Ripping several layers of wallpaper and a sheet of formica off the walls left them in pretty rough shape, so I've spent some time spackling, sanding, scraping, priming, and otherwise trying to restore the walls to a decent condition, as they will be painted instead of tiled ( Read more... )

I spotted a variety pack of peppers, mostly jalapeno, at the grocery store and instead of thinking, like a normal person would, that it was more then one small family could possibly consume, my immediate reaction was, Ooh! PROJECT!I would turn them into something, I decided...Jelly, of course! (Because what else do you do with a dozen jalapenos ( Read more... )

A new study reported in the Wall Street Journal finds that biologist and math-y jobs are at the top of the best-jobs list.

I spent New Year's Eve baking banana bread and reading BSG/Harry Potter crossover fanfic.

Hi peeps ( Read more... )