I am going to Oholibah tonight, a new opera. AND, in February, I will attend Madama Butterfly ( Read more... )

So I had this revelation today -- if i eat a decent, substantial breakfast, get this, I actually feel a lot better throughout the day. It's as though someone has told me this before, but I've never quite heard it this way ( Read more... )

I just devoured a novel in a way I have not done for several years. Seriously. I used to be a terrific reader. I would read a couple books a week. And then came school, and all the enforced reading, and I kind went off it for a little while. Anyway, it felt great ( Read more... )

In my bid to find even more ways to procrastinate, I have joined Ravelry, which is basically facebook for knitters and crocheters ( Read more... )

1) Movies with numbers in their titles are usually good.

2) So are movies with the word "cigarette" in the title.

3) Avoid any movie containing John Stamos.

I feel very excited today. It's the last day of the year, and a new one will be here soon. These days, I feel like I am part of a community again, something I haven't felt in a long long time. I don't know what it is. Perhaps I've just built up a critical mass of people that I know here, at long last. Moving to new places is hard! I finally feel ( Read more... )

My OTHER new year's resolution is to keep a real-live paper journal, and to update this ol' hoss more often.

Well. I've visited mom for three days at her house, visited dad for three days at his house...my dad came back with me to MY house for a few days...and now everyone's gone, and I have the house to myself ( Read more... )

My life this year so far ( Read more... )

So, Bloom's Taxonomy! We meet again! and again and again and again, it seems.
But this time, you will walk the plank! I will make meaning of my own learning!
For those of you who have not yet met this scallywag, he is a hierarchy of questioning levels, which no teacher of pedagogy can resist mentioning -- he's just THAT sexy.

Bloom's Taxonomy in ( Read more... )