Yesterday, as I lay by the pool, studying for my evening exam of extremely weighty material for Gordon Biersch, my new place of employment, I felt an intense wave of satisfaction wash over me. I had eaten well, worked out, been productive around the house, and all before noon. I felt like I was finally getting into my groove, making progress, ( Read more... )

I've just now finished with my student teaching work sample. Let the party begin!

Oh man ( Read more... )

How would you punctuate the sentence below? Edit, reword, rewrite as appropriate, but punctuation is what really counts. I'm known to be comma-happy, and I know there are too many included, but I can't figure out where to omit them to have the most correct sentence left. PLEEZ HALP.

The sentence:

For me, teaching in general, and the topic of ( Read more... )

This morning on the KBCO morning show Next time on Seinfeld Rumsfeld. Hilarity.

It's Sunday night, late because I've been putting off the coming moments for as long as possible now. There's no avoiding it, so I go upstairs to face it ( Read more... )

I have had an absolutely fabulous spring break so far ( Read more... )

Does anyone have the Counting Crows song "Big Yellow Taxi"? I'd really like an mp3 copy of it, but I can't find it. Anyone? I love you.

She's very different from my old cat. She looks pretty much the same, except she has eight fewer teeth. What's really completely different is her behavior ( Read more... )

I made a Flickr account. http://flickr.com/photos/katryxx/

It doesn't have too many pictures just yet, but wait until I start uploading pics from my trip. Insanity.