i'm just grading tests tonight, eating my leftover indian food and going through my never-ending list of music to see what i want to keep and what needs to be consigned to my recycle bin.  tonight, i've been mostly doing snow patrol, and i have to say i'm disappointed.  i have to be in the right mood for snow patrol anyway, but i found like 2 songs ( Read more... )

no exclamation marks.  it's been a long week, and i'm so glad to finally reach a weekend where i have nothing to do, really. sure, a meeting with my tutor, maybe dinner with a friend, and some damnable lesson plans to finish, but all in all, it should be restful, and then i have 3 days off next week.  which, while not as wonderful as the vacation ( Read more... )

WARNING: Gratuitous photos of a crafty/geeky nature ahead... (wait, does having a stationery collection count as geeky?) Anyway, you have been warned.

See? I told you I would get back to this at some point - I just have a very flexible definition of 'tomorrow.'   Now seemed like as good a time as any - 2 am, eating leftover Indian (kadhai chicken ( Read more... )

Yesterday at Snb was the first meeting I've been to in a while, and I thin kit went pretty well- we were tying out a new cafe, and I was in fine form.  Excerpts from the conversation:

(My friend Audrey is describing how her father's female relatives had a bit of... 'red fever' as she referred to it, so she has some native american blood from ( Read more... )

I was online tonight and found a couple cool articles I wanted to share.

My friend Carson had this book at Snb last night called 'Stuff White People Like' and to be honest, I agreed with quite a few of the things she named, and it just sounded hilarious.  Actually, it made me think of Tim.  The folks at Gizmodo have analyzed okcupid profiles to ( Read more... )

Wow, I've been blogging way more than usual lately.  Tonight I took a nap, which explains why I'm awake at 1 am with no plans to get to bed anytime soon.  I was eating some cereal for dinner and decided to open my picture files and see what I could edit - I'm trying to get more in the habit of doing that, and next month I think I will finally plunk ( Read more... )

You wouldn't normally think the two go together, I suppose, but when you're dealing with kids, anything goes.

I was teaching my 7-year-olds the word 'rare' yesterday, and I was trying to get them to come up with sentences for the word, so I said, "Well, what about diamonds? Those are rare."

My students disagreed. "No, Ms. Rivera.  I have lots of ( Read more... )

You guys know I love sparkly things.  They just make me happy, so I love making things that sparkle.  Today there was no SnB, so Cait and I went to Caroline's place and had crafty day with just the 3 of us.  They were working on some felt wallets, but I did a few projects I'd been planning for a while.

Firstly, there was these gloves. They took me ( Read more... )

I remember when I was in middle school or so, notebooks would have helpful things in the covers - the multiplication tables, measurement equivalencies, and occasionally, the list of 'commonly misspelled words.'  I used to scan the list to see what it contained and then, confident at age 12 that I didn't misspell any common words, continue on my ( Read more... )

Well here we are again.  This weekend was my birthday, and while lots of adorable pictures were taken, those will have to wait until later.  But here's something entertaining from last weekend to tide you over until I get around to putting those up... eventually.

Last weekend was Tim's leaving Seoul/birthday party, so we went out to this cafe/hookah ( Read more... )