best sign of the day:

ROAD CLOSED
John's Roast Pork OPEN

for a million reasons, but here's the latest one ( Read more... )

Sandra Day O'Connor just announced her retirement from the Supreme Court.

twenty-five instructional days left to go...

i can now calculate the number of days left without a calendar, which is just super-cool. they have all lost their minds entirely. ::sigh:: someone remind me why i do this, please ( Read more... )

this afternoon, planning for the door-decorating contest. someone suggests a Hall of Fame (African-American heroes, etc ( Read more... )

i'd forgotten how many people are on temple's campus during the year. it's been so quiet and peaceful all summer.

o_flaherty, how're you holding up?

sitting in the park with friend d and her daughter, my adorable godbaby zoe. small child approaches and pats zoe ( Read more... )

today was the big diversity conference at horrible training. naturally, i signed up for the workshop on anti-gay harassment, which my psych. prof would have called a tendency toward self-reinforcement ( Read more... )

our house interweb is down, and my computer's connection has been fickle at best these last few days. so i have not been checking my email. or my lj. or much of anything else.

and now i am at penn. at a fast computer. with working interweb. i am happy, but also confused. when did i become so addicted to zeroes and ones?

i still don't know where i'll be teaching in the fall. in the meantime, trapped in horrible training four mornings a week at the local high school (i'm not going to be teaching high school, but most trainings are held there because the furniture is large enough to accommodate adults ( Read more... )