Dear various community college faculty and staff ( Read more... )

What kind of professional, non-evil, entry level with a generic BA jobs are there that don't involve spending all day sitting at a desk/focusing intensely on a computer? (Something with an even ratio of desk time to time doing active things would work ( Read more... )

Just finished reading Among Others by Jo Walton, a sweet little coming-out-as-a-geeky-intellectual story with a subtle fantasy edge. Loved the voice, loved the fact that I can now make myself an entirely new reading list from the books the protagonist, Mori, reads, loved the ambiguity of the fantasy--are the fairies Mori sees real or not? And I ( Read more... )

Urban gardening workshop at Common Good City Farm this weekend. Simultaneously energizing and exciting (I inoculated coffee grounds with mushroom spores! And sawed off part of a board for a raised bed! And helped to sheet mulch an entire bed--now it looks like it's been there for years, even though the soil has a ways to go!) and totally ( Read more... )

By now, I'm sure all of you have heard about and been appalled by the news of Rutgers student Tyler Clementi's suicideI did not go to Rutgers myself, but I am from immediately south of the university and immediately north of the high school where the two students who set up the webcam graduated. My first thought after hearing about this, after the ( Read more... )

In 1969, three of the astronauts on the Apollo 11 mission that landed on the moon were involved in Masonic lodges.

Coincidentally, it also takes a quorum of three masons to establish a new lodge.

You see where this is going, correct?

Buzz Aldrin GOT A SPECIAL DEPUTATION TO CLAIM A MASONIC LODGE FOR TEXAS ON THE MOON. And apparently that lodge, ( Read more... )

God, almost every story on this blog makes me so angry and defensive.

When my mom first started showing me stories about my generation's Mean Girls and rainbow parties and asking if it all sounded familiar, I could honestly tell her no, actually I know nothing about that world. When you start talking about job-hunting and the laziness of job ( Read more... )

My housemate's new (public, non-charter) school is doing an experiment this year. All the 9th graders who aren't in their magnet program are in single-gender classes with opposite-gender teachers. The whole program is being pushed top-down; as far as he knows, all or most of the students and their families had no clue this was happening until the ( Read more... )

This is what I've been up to recently.

I was going to write an entry about how I have no idea what I'd do with even entry-level-salary-like amounts of money. Then I realized that I can make such statements, in large part, because I don't have student loan debt. For that I am extraordinarily grateful, and will spare you all my privileged confusion/avoid starting a flame war ( Read more... )