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New Year's Eve--time to update the quoteboard! :P
Andrea: Did Victoria tell you she went to the hospital ( Read more... ) -
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Lovely Christmas Eve. Drove to Tommy's at 3, and it started snowing. We made Christmas cookies, watched White Christmas, listened to Christmas carols, tracked Santa's route online, and had tacos for dinner (okay, so that bit wasn't Christmassy). Came home after dark--we got about two/two and a half inches of snow. Took a walk because it was so ( Read more... ) -
creativity meme
is it hard for you to think up new ideas? list three of your biggest influences.
Not at all. There are ideas EVERYWHERE. My biggest influences are the tv shows and movies i watch and the books I read. :)
what do you do when you’re inspired? do you scream eureka, write the idea down in a notebook, what?
I jot it down on whatever is at hand. I keep ( Read more... ) -
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Just received an interesting email from the University:
On Friday, December 14th, responding to a report of threats, the Ohio University Police Department (OUPD) arrested one of our employees, who, according to eyewitness reports, allegedly made threatening remarks to coworkers about bringing a shotgun to work. After speaking with the employee and ( Read more... ) -
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I had my first dance class since winter term last night, and the only thing I couldn't do was the grand pliés. Even the jumps didn't bug me a bit. Yay!
Also, I have finished grading one class-worth of essays: 20 down, 21 to go!
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December meme! aka, WHERE IS SHE GETTING THE YOGURT??
First line posted on LJ for each month!
January: Last night was a good New Year's Eve.
February: I'm reading a book on Tolkien's sources for a book review project for my bibliography and methods class. [I love this entry ( Read more... ) -
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Turned in first term paper! Now I just have eight conferences with students tomorrow and my eighteenth century term paper to do, and I can leave Wednesday morning!!!
Also: Contradance on Saturday! -
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One of my students was writing about the misconception that polar bears are cute and fuzzy. His essay included this priceless sentence:
"Many are misinformed of the raw power and brutality that comes with the territory of being a polar bear."
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This student of mine... First her computer crashed. Okay, she couldn't help that. Then for the first draft of assignment 2 she wrote it on the library computer and SAVED IT TO THE LIBRARY COMPUTER, despite the fact that they all have signs on them warning students that stuff gets deleted off the computers. So she gave me a hardcopy of her rough ( Read more... ) -
tab cleanoff!
What perfume should you wear to pick up men? Overall, men responded best to the combination of lavender and pumpkin pie, followed by the combination smell of doughnut and black licorice. Whoda thunkit.
I always wondered why mosquitoes seemed to prefer me...
How to control your dreams
A pen that lets you draw with any color! I love the idea, but ( Read more... )