For as much as I love Eleanor Roosevelt, how did I not know this quote?

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

I've decided that just might be my mantra for teaching this year. Last year, it was this Eleanor quote:

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It's not Christmastime until I've watched Peter Paul and Mary's Holiday Concert with my parents. I was looking for a video of the Wonderful Machine, but this song will do just fine ( Read more... )

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... how I love you.


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From Anslee, Colorado's 29-year-old day cops reporter:

I'm not sure what I want to do. I got excited when LL Bean was hiring a copywriter. But would I get bored writing about boots and sweaters?

But I'd open a bookstore with you. I could hang my photos.Anslee and I would sit next to each other and be snippy and come up with excuses to visit the ( Read more... )

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I'm kind of addicted to Excel now.

Oh God, fingers crossed, no errors.

Thank you: Don, Amy, BC, Elissa, Benita, Ed, Joseph, Feeny, Bethany, Mike and Meghan Frye, who always let me switch computers with her when I needed Excel.

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**BC throws a carrot at me**
Me: What're you doing, fuckface?
Benita: Did you just call him fuckface?
Me: BC, I just wanted to let you know that just because I called you a fuckface, it doesn't mean I respect you any less.
Benita: BC, she just called you fuckface.
BC: I kind of thought it was cute.

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