Sorry if you clicked on last year's letter by accident! I forgot to get this up in time for the sending of the assignments. I'm not very active in lj, so there' hasn't been much since last year's letter anyway ( Read more... )

Dear Yuletide writer,

First off, thanks so much for participating in Yuletide!  I hope you have fun thinking and writing this year.  This is my first year participating, so honestly I don't have much in the way of expectations (hah, which could be good or bad for you, I guess).  But, really, I think you're awesome...Imagine, someone writing fanfic ( Read more... )

So, if my brother and I got a 4-pack of tickets to the John Mayer & Ben Folds concert tomorrow night (Sat, 7:30) at Verizon, would anyone else be interested in chipping in $25 for one of the other two tickets...?

I want to get this framed so I can put it up in my classroom someday.

I am a teacher who stands up for what is right against what is indecent, who is in favor of freedom against authoritarianism, who is a supporter of authority against freedom with no limits, and who is a defender of democracy against the dictatorship of right or left.

I am a teacher ( Read more... )

"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?" - Ernest Gaines ( Read more... )

Working on theses and doing reading for my various classes, coupled with long drives with nothing to do but think, tend to make my daily thoughts much weightier than the normal silliness I post on lj.  And I feel like recording what I'm thinking here.  So, consider yourself warned.

A quote from today's class reading:
Current calls for school reform ( Read more... )

So, I'm at work, but I've finished mainly everything, and my boss is on the phone, so I can't ask for my next assignment.  I've really liked the "sit and read about how other people did the job, then throw away the useless crap they kept" part of the job.  Less scary people-interaction, which is good for my nerves.  I mean, I can do customer ( Read more... )

Look, no one's home.  And to think that just years ago I would jump for a chance to be left all alone in my house.  Then again, there were so many more things that were forbidden back then ( Read more... )

Hey, look.  My job hasn't even started yet, and I'm already tired of the summer.  Fun.  School isn't quite over, but it might as well be.  Silly of me to have procrastinated this paper so long.  But when it's over, I guess summer will have officially started.  Let's hope life becomes less underwhelming sometime around then.

So, lately there's been ( Read more... )

Hmmm, let's see if this works.  You see, one reason why I haven't been posting in here much recently is that I actually have been, except lj keeps eating my posts right before I finish them and, with my tendency to ramble, deleting an hour's worth of work that I tend to be too disgusted to duplicate.  So, if you never see this, you can know it's ( Read more... )