Restored last saved draft   The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

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"The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment.  The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become.  Conversely, the absolute ( Read more... )

[10:39] Superhieuman(aka a very wise man): true true, life is a series of figuring things out

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When a private talk over a bottle of wine is broadcast on the radio, what can it mean but tht the world is turning into a concentration camp?

Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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"Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words." And suddenly he realized that all his life he had done nothing but talk, write, lecture, concoct sentences, search for formulations and amend them, so in the end no words were that precise, their meanings were obliterated, their content lost, they ( Read more... )

Preface: Brent and I had a long conversation about Lebanon and Israel...and why I don't follow the news very closely ( Read more... )

Summer time and the wind is blowing outside ( Read more... )

Thanks Hieu.
Went on my first geocache adventure.
Played on the monkey bars until the police complained via their car's bullhorn.
Going to pick up the pictures of my students acting out metric conversions:)

2 weeks from now it's going to be really strange: not sending brian the 10th email of the day, no conversations/demos with maureen while lesson planning at 1am, not waking up before sunrise and hopping on a yellow school bus with our blue lunchbags, no friday happy hour with the edison crew, not being completely surrounded by super motivated ( Read more... )

The police had to go and get some of our friends out of the flooded streets. Good thing we weren't going to drive to school until 6:40 and the school closed announcement was made by megaphone at 6:38am.

I was barely nervous about my first day this morning and now I'm getting more and more nervous...weird.

This morning at breakfast I got asked if I was the corps member who was getting married and bringing her husband here. No. Really funny, but no. How am I portraying myself?
Oh, the magic of rumors amoung relatively small groups of people.

She reflected on all of these issues ad nauseam.
~in reference to Ms. Lora's reflection

*It seems to me that a lot of people are trying to prove something to everyone else. However, virtually everything I do is just for fun, or to prove something to myself. Out of shape 10K in 84 degrees+humidity followed by 69.7 miles on Tunnel Hill Trail with Melissa---only to prove to myself that if I set out to do something I will at least come ( Read more... )