Go to Wikipedia, enter in your birth date but not the year. List three neat events, three births and three deaths, include the year.

Events:1782 - George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart. (maybe that's why I like purple so much, ( Read more... )

5 days until the OFLA conference. Before then, and between planning, teaching, and grading for three grade levels this weekend, doing a linguistics project, planning for and singing in choir on Sunday, and finishing my education portfolio in time for the Education Career Fair (in four days), I have to turn my 80-page thesis (which also needs to be ( Read more... )

so, like I mentioned in my last entry, I didn't get my linguistics project turned in on time....just got an e-mail from Isabel telling me not to bother turning it in now b/c she won't accept it and there is no way I can get any other kind of credit....and then that e-mail was followed by this one....

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I should be working on my thesis right now....grr, I wish I got a dollar for every time I said that over the past few weeks (I definitely wouldn't be awaiting my check from campus ministry with the same eagerness :-P). Not only have I fallen behind the deadline Isabel set for me (I was supposed to have my whole second draft done by last Tuesday, to ( Read more... )

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So Option To is over! Last week was insane with tech week or performances every night, but it really went amazingly well...it was so awesome to sit and see what I had written come to life through the acting, the singing and the dancing....the story really took on a life of its own, and I found myself learning more about the whole message than I had ( Read more... )

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Happy 2006 everybody! I hope everyone's new year has been going well so far....I can't believe how (for many of us anyway) we've started our last semester ever.....it's kinda crazy ( Read more... )

So I am back from the Sunshine State....good times! It was great to see Grandad and Scottie again and hang out in the lovely Floridian weather....palm trees and hibiscus flowers were a great break from the snow and slush, heheh. We also did lots of fun stuff, like go on a boat-tour to the Gulf of Mexico (during which we saw a dolphin swimming along ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope everybody had a wonderful holiday, wherever you are ( Read more... )