I have not blogged in like, ages...

Today Ben went up 3333 steps (I bade him farewell at 2300ish).

And!

I did the voice recording for the welcome sign at the base of this grand and painful cultural monument.  It was totally in place and we pressed this button ( Read more... )

Not the lesson they intended

Two L.A. charter school teachers lose their jobs over a planned Black History Month presentation.

"Teachers and students said the administration suggested that the Till case - in which the teenager was beaten to death in Mississippi after allegedly whistling at a white woman - was not fitting for a program intended to ( Read more... )

Last night was the most fun I think I've ever had out with my co-workers and in a karaoke bar. 'Do the Locomotion' actually brought a complete stranger to his feet at the bar to do a very geisha-esque paper umbrella dance. There was twirling, bobbing, and a very graceful finale when he bowed on his knees before the stage.  We even got all of my non ( Read more... )

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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/credit/eight/

Thanks, PBS...

Write a Statement of Purpose describing your background, interest, and qualifications for the MPP program. If you use more than one page for your statement be sure to number the pages and include your name on each page.

Gee thanks UCLA... That would just perhaps include EVERYTHING.

I really want to write some long rant complaining about all the stress and pressure in my life at the moment, but just a month ago I would have been complaining about the tedium and boredom. I actually really love the spicey bite of anxiety in my life, from grad school applications to Ben coming to Japan soon (in the midst of said application ( Read more... )

For Halloween, I was inadvertently this guy:


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Monday October 9 ( Read more... )

I have no school today

because a kid was knifed.

It really scares me.

I hope whoever it is, he or she is ok.

Maybe now my school will just burn the administration that wasn't working already.

Maybe it has nothing to do with that at all.

Why did this happen?