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More on school reading lists
Annie Holmquist over at BetterEd.org did a comparison of a 1908 recommended reading list for middle schoolers to a modern recommended reading list for middle schoolers. She was looking at the idea of modern curricula being dumbed down, but me, I'm kind of looking at the historical list as a source of recommended reading for myself ( Read more... ) -
Fun with poses
...though alas, not mine. I am kinda tempted to recreate the posing-as-covers experiments just for kicks, and I admit I went back and looked at a bunch of pics of me in costumes over the years to see whether I ever accidentally channeled any book-coverishness. (Looks like the answer is "not really," even if I can't say the same about channeling ( Read more... ) -
Behind the scenes at Jo-Ann
An interesting read on how things work at craft chain retailer Jo-Ann.
Worth a look if you've ever shopped there and wondered where the employees are or why things seem kind of f-ed up. -
Books of olde!
Gratuitous "e" alert up there in the title. ;)
A childhood friend tagged me on FB in one of those "list your top ten books that have stuck with you" memes, and I don't know if this is supposed to be the same one I've done previously (I think I've done one...), but for some reason I don't remember the previous one being "that have stuck with you." ( Read more... ) -
O, you spoilerrific world
Holy carping carp, Internet. I open Google in Firefox and search for a character's name, nothing more, and the preview text for a page that comes up as a result has TWO MAJOR SPOILERS in it. I mean ... I know. The series has been out for a while. I "should" know the major didn't-just-happen-yesterday spoilers already because supposedly just by ( Read more... ) -
Officially adding a label
...In a good way. That is, I think I am officially a Lolita, and while it's kind of puzzling, it's also pretty cool to have a(nother) identifiable self-label that's 100 percent non-judgemental ( Read more... ) -
43things
Oh, dear. One of the sites I've been on for quite a long time - seven years - has decided it's time to stop existing. The site in question is 43things, which was about goal-setting in a community, and I ... feel somewhat adrift now that I can no longer add things there. I've gone through phases of using it heavily and not using it very much at all ( Read more... ) -
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Augh. Had some moments of sanity and productivity yesterday, in which I worked on a couple of new designs, looked at records from last year's Metrocon (the next event I have a table at), and started feeling like maybe I'll somehow squeak by having accomplished almost everything I want to have done by this Thursday. Woke up early this morning and ( Read more... ) -
Not really about bikinis, but about control issues
I've been kind of graaaAAARRrrrr lately, so it was restorative to laugh along with the person who wrote "I Wore a Bikini and Nothing Happened." The blog post discusses the author's experiences with people trying to convince her she shouldn't wear a bikini when she isn't planning on losing weight before wearing it ( Read more... )