Phew -- camps are over! No more 80+ work weeks including weekends!   I'll post some pictures soon - it was a great experience being director.   Initially I was ready for it to be done, but now I (along with all the other camps peeps) are having withdrawal and don't like being back on our teams.  It's really rough being back to all that drama and ( Read more... )

Feeling super nostalgic... Exactly this time last weekend I was on my solo three day weekend in the Pyrenees, at Lourdes... exploring the goatpaths in the mountains and taking these photos...


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I'm feeling really off, and sad, I don't know why. It maybe be a left over from yesterday when I felt really upset all day. I think I felt really disapointed in myself because I was working with two Cambodian students and they had an assignment due today, and they just don't understand it, and short of doing it for them (which I won't) there isn ( Read more... )

Sooo, you may have heard on Dateline that if you create a profile for yourself in a chatroom and put your age down as 13-15, particularly if you're female, you will be deluged with messages looking for online sexual activity. Now, hypothetically, you may be tempted to take their word for it, but again hypothetically, you might actually create a ( Read more... )

Some Recent Highlights...

• Today:  reading in a Liberian's girl's project that the bad things about Liberia are "The bad men.  Bad men are bad because they kidnap little boys and rape little girls." Gulp.
• Yesterday and today were substitute teacher days, which means discipline in the classroom, rare to begin with, is totally nonexistent.  Substitute ( Read more... )

I had no idea I was capable of this much hatred towards one little mouse... I sit in the living room and at every random creak of the building my eyes dart suspisciously towards the counter... or my skin crawls and I start wondering if it's on the couch beside me... or what else it is going to destroy in its temper tantrums and evil rampages ( Read more... )

Sophia: "what do you mean you don't want that job? She described having to coordinate 600 people's schedules and I turned around and you were practically drooling."

What an exciting weekend ( Read more... )

Boys always end up making me sad...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Don't leave wounded enemies to die. Don't desecrate the dead. Don't cause unnecessary suffering. Don't steal things while searching private homes. And don't photograph detainees, especially when they're hooded. These mandates may seem like common sense, or at least common courtesy, but reports of U.S. troops killing civilians in ( Read more... )