Um...I don't even know where to start with this...

www.cnn.com/video/#/video/living/2009/02/18/am.costello.teaching.sex.cnn

I still read your updates, LJ friends..but I have more fun Tumbling.  Find me here:

http://helmsing.tumblr.com/

The 8 Stupidest Things Said By Reporters During the Hudson Plane Crash Coverage
By Michelle Collins

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Sonny J's song and video for "Can't Stop Moving" is like a PBS childrens program on speed.  I think it's the opening theme song to the TV show about my life.  This time next year I hope to be at Michigan State with a fellowship, surrounded by lots and lots of books on theory and education philosophy.

Enjoy!

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The folks at holytaco.com - those irreverent miners for all things offensive on the intarwebs - have showcased "LOLGRANDPARENTS" .  Is it a biting satire of the inanity of lolcats?  Is it a genuine pean to the unintentional humor of geriatric issues?  Is i insensitive to the plight elderly people face in the midst of their declininng physical and ( Read more... )

I just learned that elementary schools here in Phoenix often have to have indoor recess, just like in Indiana.  However, the reason is not because of snow or rain - it's because the temperatures often get above 120 degrees ( Read more... )

I honestly thought that I would become wistful and melancholy reading everyone's posts about cold temps, frost, and snow.  I thought I would become envious of your enjoyment of the changing of the seasons; covetous of your varied precipitation ( Read more... )

Here are some pictures from Homecoming Week at Sunnyslope.  It was a lot of fun.  I find it professionally rewarding and personally satisfying to work in a school that has tons of traditions that students and staff both look forward to doing each year.  There isn't a lot of apathy at Slope - everyone gets into celebrating each other.  They know it' ( Read more... )

It's 3:00 a.m. (sigh, Ben Folds), and, like almost every other day out here, a Live Journal post withers the experience down to mumbo jumbo (must look up phrase origin for that now...)

So I will leave you with my favorite quote of the night, which was said as I met up with some friends at the outlandish West Gate City Center Entertainment Complex, ( Read more... )

This really isn't surprising at all - and it hardly counts as 'news' - but it does make me wonder why fewer people read fiction/nonfiction literature.  Is it true that 100 years ago more people were reading than people do today?

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Mariah Carey says the only book she has ever read is the Bible.

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