Even though I didn't want it to happen, thank GOD for snow days ( Read more... )

Today, for the first time in years, I went for a run.

I woke up, put on a pair of gym shorts, my AAPT shirt and my old Old Navy fleece, all too big. I stretched just like I did at Maine Maritime in the mornings with Master Sergeant Meckfessel. I felt my muscles scream as they strained, slowly and painfully, under the stress I put them under. I felt ( Read more... )

So, twenty-two weeks after my last entry, I decided I gotta get back into this. I think I'll do that by talking about my trip to New Orleans this past weekend.

This year hasn't been going great at school. Our kids are tougher and more hateful. As teachers, we're exhausted. I feel like my team is falling apart half the time. But, still, good things ( Read more... )

I think the feeling is pretty simple here. I don't want to go to school tomorrow. Tomorrow requires preparing a few solutions (lettuce, potato, honey, table sugar, gelatine, etc.), trying to write a good special relativity curricula, dealing with my at times overbearing department chair and figuring out how I'm going to live through yet another ( Read more... )

1) Every lightbulb I own is a CFL.
2) I don't buy trashbags; I use my take home grocery bags as trash and we recycle EVERYTHING.
3) I use reusable bags whenever possible.
4) I write in Staples Ecofriendly notebooks (in my book, that is).
5) I drive a car that gets up to 44 MPG on the highway.
6) I receive very few paper bills (all statements get sent to ( Read more... )

I am currently up, writing some materials for my class and dreading it. The materials are for a lab practical, a test that kids have to pass in order to demonstrate and ensure that they have some basic lab skills before they move on to the tenth grade science. I know that it is defying my deepest instincts about education, and so it hurts, but it ( Read more... )

I've just come around to realize that while things are moving along nicely, our place is a FUCKING mess. Here's how I finally woke up to it.

Yesterday was a great day. We rode out to Bedford to find a new set of pots and pans for our kitchen. Shannon and I were getting tired of the scraped-off teflon and beat up aluminum...just plain tired. So, with ( Read more... )

I definitely believe in other lives, but I don't think we ever get access to them directly. The only one I can tell about is in a dream that I had once, where I lived in ancient Rome. I think I was some sort of local politician, walking around and talking to random people and listening to them bitch about their problems while I tried my best to do ( Read more... )