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Ladybugs?
I found winged aphids all over my tomatoes! My baby tomatoes that I grew from seed and which are now really more adolescent tomatoes but they will be my babies 4-ever! Oh noes! (It's possible I'm overly attached to plants, yes. Shut up ( Read more... ) -
Summer Preview: the Plague Edition
So, um, school is canceled for the week. We had an emergency faculty meeting yesterday at which the Head said, "Some huge percentage of students are sick, faculty are also getting sick, the Health Department suggests we close if we're having trouble functioning. So we're going to do that ( Read more... ) -
Summer
Thanks in part to posting here, I managed to schedule my spring break pretty thoroughly, and my ratio of fun days to depressed days was about 14:1. Yay! But of course, that's all just a trial run for the real hurdle: summer. It starts in a month, and I'm terrified. Work has been so busy lately that I've planned even less than I usually do, ( Read more... ) -
Things that are weird include...
...becoming friends with my 15-year-old cousin on Facebook and discovering "cock" among her interests.*
...realizing that this means my students, many of whom I know way better than I know my cousin at this point, have equally terrifying things on their Facebook pages, and I just don't know. (Until they graduate and friend me. Eeep ( Read more... ) -
BSG finale?
I finally watched the BSG finale last night, with spooky_thing, janet_carter, and my dear friend P who was visiting for the weekend. I studiously avoided all posts on the subject for the last 2 weeks, so if you wrote one, I want to read it now. Point me at it ( Read more... ) -
"food is all about taste, and fresh and local taste better"
...according to Michelle Obama, who is planting a freaking vegetable garden on the White House lawn.
From the NYTimes article:
While the organic garden will provide food for the first family’s meals and formal dinners, its most important role, Mrs. Obama said, will be to educate children about healthful, locally grown fruit and vegetables.... ( Read more... ) -
1st gardening post of the year!
Which is ironic, considering that I'm posting this from my couch on a snow day. But on Friday I started seeds indoors for the first time: four little starter pellets of Sungold cherry tomatoes (3 seeds in each pellet), plus a small pot with a semicircle of basil seeds and a semicircle of oregano seeds ( Read more... ) -
Spring Break
I recognize that this makes me sound crazy, but I'm rather dreading Spring Break. Two weeks of unplanned time, with nowhere to go and no one to talk to and no one expecting anything of me, is a free ticket to Depression Island. (Multiply that by 5 and you have... summer. *shudder ( Read more... ) -
Acupuncture
For everyone who asked about my acupuncture experience ( Read more... ) -
Retail therapy
I've made a few purchases recently that have -- without hyperbole -- changed my life. So I thought I'd share, in case they might change your life, too ( Read more... )