...and especially forgive me for not posting in so long!  With all of the free time I've had lately, there's no excuse!  So, a retrospective on the past few months:

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My Masters exam is fast approaching.  In fact, i think it's exactly 2 months from yesterday!  My group and I have been studying diligently since last June, and yet it seems as if there is SO MUCH work left to do.  I haven't made it through the whole list yet, and I'm not sure I will.  I have, however, attempted to read everything, and the things ( Read more... )

While it's not an update, I was laughing so hard when i saw this meme posted by commodoremarie that I HAD to do it!

1. Open Paint.
2. Close your eyes.
3. Draw a cat.

And mine looks like so:


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"The Walk"

by Thomas Hardy

You did not walk with me
Of late to the hill-top tree
      As in earlier days,
      By the gated ways:
      You were weak and lame,
      So you never came,
And I went alone, and I did not mind,
Not thinking of you as left behind.

I walked up there to-day
Just in the former way:
      Surveyed around
      The familiar ( Read more... )

            It was a Monday morning at 9:00am.  I was tired; it had been a long and busy weekend and I felt as if I hadn’t had a break at all.  My 7th graders were tired.  They couldn’t focus at all.  They had just been out of school for the weekend, had two days off, and also had to get back into the school mindset.  Every Monday is a struggle and ( Read more... )

My professors at Davis are under the impression that they should give us as much busy work and little useless assignments as they can.  So, they assign US things they think our students should do.

The result of one of these useless assignments is the following poem.  It's based on a model, "I Am From," that is supposed to get students to explore ( Read more... )

83% Dennis Kucinich
82% Mike Gravel
79% Barack Obama
78% Chris Dodd
77% John Edwards
76% Bill Richardson
74% Hillary Clinton
70% Joe Biden
40% John McCain
36% Rudy Giuliani
36% Mike Huckabee
30% Ron Paul
30% Mitt Romney
22% Tom Tancredo
20% Fred Thompson

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz Yep. That's pretty much what I thought.

In 2007 I . .

[  ] broke a promise- Never could, even if I tried.
[x] made a new friend
[x] fell out of love
[x] lied
[x] went behind your parents back- I guess you can say that.
[  ] cried over a broken heart
[x] disappointed someone close- I'm not quite sure, so I'm checking it to be safe.  Most likely, yes I have.
[x] hid a secret- Everyday, you could ( Read more... )

I swear each year that I won't make resolutions, and yet I always do!  And they're always very odd.

So for next year I vow to:

-Drink 64oz of water/tea EVERY DAY!
-Stretch every morning and every evening
-Floss EVERY night (I'm so bad about this)
-Work toward complete health - physically, mentally, emotionally
-Work on issues of respect (self, mainly)
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Instead of working on my paper, as I should be, I've been procrastinating :(  And for some reason, procrastinating has made this poem stick in my head.  I know it's over quoted, but it's one of my favorites.  And that's saying something considering my English-major-version of aversion to poetry (meaning I love reading it, but it scared the shit out ( Read more... )