So I've been prepping for the Summer Institute this whole week, it's has been somewhat stressful getting everything organized. Mostly because of parents. We set a cap of 160 students. The deadline for signing up for the Institute was May 29th...despite this registration forms continued to come in all summer long. Once we had gotten to our cap, we ( Read more... )

Why do kittens love sitting on the keyboard of laptops? It doesn't strike me as particularly comfortable, yet Beau loves it and will happily fall asleep completely on top of the keyboard, or with his head resting against the edge, which makes typing particularly challenging. Cute and all..but weird.

So, the kitties have names. Kate and I settled on Lucy and Beau. I liked the name Lucy lots, and Kate came up with Beau, which I really like because he's such a pretty boy that the name seems to fit him. (I don't care if the president's dog name is Bo, it's a good name)

In other kitty news- they had fleas when I got them, not a huge shocker since ( Read more... )

Linus & Lucy (I like Lucy, it seems to fit the little girl...except she's in love with the blue towel- which is very Linus like, I'm just not sure he's a Linus ( Read more... )

So I went to my Aunt's house for dinner last night, my cousin Jeff was in from Washington so it was a bit of a family get together..and my Aunt had told me about how there was an abandoned cat in the neighborhood who had kittens recently. The mom clearly belonged to someone and they didn't want her any more, she was very friendly, and her kittens ( Read more... )

...Cause they are BRILLIANT ( Read more... )

OBX was nice, had some decent weather, which means I have come home with some horrible burns..I can't manage to go to the beach with out burning a bit. Otherwise, it was a nice week of relaxing, watching the tide roll in and reading books =) I re-read Harry Potter 4-7 as a refresher for the movie, the new Lisa Kleypas modern fic, and the new Julia ( Read more... )

I'm re-working my entire AP World class this summer, because it really SUCKED this past year. So...I've been making some progress, I make myself create one day's lesson each day..so I'm up to about October at this point, but I've hit a road block. I'm not 100% sure what I want to do with the current info. Need to get my student's to compare the ( Read more... )

I'd avoided it, for a while, almost a year from when I was first truly introduced until I finally succumbed. I knew all the horrible things about it, the drama,the less than excellent writing, the tween-age obsessions, and most important the sparkle. I avoided the sparkle. But...it's everywhere!! and my student's they pestered me all year. Finally ( Read more... )

I've noticed something somewhat odd about myself...or maybe it's not odd and other people are like this too? I dunno...I have noticed I go through mini-obsessions. I find myself enamored with something or someone, a song, movie, actor, book..whatever the thing maybe be and I will almost obsessively listen to the song, or watch clips from the movie ( Read more... )