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...if you're working with three-dimensional shapes, you have to watch out for "rectangular prisons" (rectangular prisms) and "spears" (spheres ( Read more... )

This is brief, because I should be working ( Read more... )

I was going to try and write something about Gunter Grass, and a collection of his readings, and comparing it to bob dylan's 'best of' vs., say, his album 'blood on the tracks.' And an ignorant smidge about political going ons, with obama and carter and violence resolution ( Read more... )

So I went to the beach yesterday, around 4:30 ( Read more... )

I've never done my own taxes. I've also never gotten any money back. I'm about to attempt turbo-tax, or some other such on-line tax form ( Read more... )

I bought a twenty to thirty dollar puppet several months ago, and it's gone missing this week. It's a green monster from 'Leonardo the Terrible Monster'. If anyone somehow magically sees him around, please let me know. I wouldn't be surprised if he's hiding somewhere in my room (I once lost a student for three months underneath some file folders ( Read more... )

I'm still on a bit of a Hornby kick ( Read more... )

Although I don't have my ticket yet, or set itinerary, or set places to stay, I'm excited about europe. I really go up and down with it. I start wondering if I'm making a poor choice, mainly because there's three very awesome and important people who are getting married this summer, and I'd miss them ( Read more... )

We were talking about st. patty's, and leprechaun's and their pot of gold. Their writing prompt was what they would do with a pot of gold. One of my students wrote he would buy a race car. I asked him what he would do with the race car, and another boy at the table replied, "drive fast and wave at girls?"
Big Pimpin'. Age six.