I haven't posted in a year and a half. So I suppose I shall. News...news ( Read more... )

Preface: The past three weeks I have been enlightening my students onto the art of "cartooning". We have a visiting author who is not only a writer and humorist, but also wrote/drew a cartoon book for kids. So... I have taken a variety of his characters and we drew our own versions of them ( Read more... )

I haven't been paying much attention to livejournal as of late. I seem to be fiddling with other things these days. However, I have found something rather cool that I think anyone could enjoy. Check out this link to see a marching band that plays the music and acts out classic video games. Its nifty ( Read more... )

I'm feeling very nostalgic lately, I'm swearing off men again, and filtering through a lot of old stuff I had forgotten even existed. My parents decided that they would like to de-clutter their house so the first place they would start was all possessions of mine left behind. I have been sorting through nearly three decades of crap for three days ( Read more... )

I know most people have good intentions, but I always seem to be offended in some manner. Last summer I had a fit over how someone stated that I had "grown" in reference to the fact that YES I have gained weight since high school. Geez, I hope everyone has to some degree. That would be what I consider normal. Of course I took offense, but that was ( Read more... )

Its May, so this is our last month of the school year. This translates into considerable chaos until I finally send the little "darlings" home for the summer ( Read more... )

This week I am teaching my students how to use shapes to draw dinosaurs. My students are apparently ill-informed in this area due to the conversation I had earlier today ( Read more... )

There are times if you were to stand outside of my classroom the subject I was teaching would be entirely unclear. For example....
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So the best line I've heard so far this week has to be... "I'm going to go shake my can now ( Read more... )

Perhaps I am old school, but I recall the days where one would visit Santa at the large department store at the mall. Or at least a mall sponsored Santa would be available ( Read more... )