so for creative strategies, we had to do an exercise with free word association for 4 different topics. so you can start with apple followed by red, then fire etc. after the exercise you are supposed to connect words that come up more than once. these connections are obviously stonger and you should pay more attention to them since they are somehow ( Read more... )

i saw my kids graduate. my kids from my first year teaching actually walked across the stage and received their diplomas. i couldn't help but get a little catch in my throat. it was so awesome to see them today. as if the past two years of struggle inside my classroom didn't happen. even the kids who had the worst time with me came up, threw their ( Read more... )

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so i went to go get my eyebrow waxed, and my waxer carla, asked if i was a half-breed (like, gurl, are you a half breed, half n**** and chink?)ok, sure, well, not really, i'm half filipino and half russian, not that carla is listening, because she is inspecting my hair, and then she asked if my hair was in fact, my real hair. yes, i said, and she ( Read more... )

so there have been a lot of door to door volunteers trying to get people to sign clipboards to save the environment and such. i have such a tumultuous relationship with the environment, when they knock, after like the first 11, i just stopped answering the door ( Read more... )

Native Austinite
You scored 91 Austinism! You might as well have been born here, you are in touch with the city's flow.

My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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as many of you may know, i am a newly annointed follower of the harry potter series. i finished the six book sunday night, only because i had a dream about harry potter and his love interest. it was like reading the karma sutra for the wizarding world, complete with illustrations. robes, hats and wands everywhere everywhere. i actually woke up and ( Read more... )

yes dear friends it's true. all these years of denouncing harry potter has bit me in the ass. i give up. uncle. i love it. it all started on a snow day earlier this month. i watched goblet of fire and was entranced, but i didn't think it would lead to anything. then comes the holidays and my parents' awesome cable which led to a secret viewing of ( Read more... )

i found out today that one of my former students was murdered. i read it in people magazine. i had to reread the article several times to make sure, but there it was: former student of germantown high school. people had written an article on him, naming him an outstanding single father. because of the article, readers from all over offered him ( Read more... )

if you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, even if we don't speak often, please post a comment with a memory of you and me. It can be anything you want, either good or bad.

When you're finished, post this little paragraph on your blog and be surprised (or mortified) about what people remember about you.