I love my family. Each member is equally great in their own ways. So rather than discount any of them, this particular writing is on my mother. She is doing what she loves: teaching. Yes she spent 20 odd years sewing, but she took an opportunity and ran with it. I doubt if you told her this time last year, that she'd be teaching 5 college courses ( Read more... )

Have you ever noticed that as the years go on, you get more practical things for christmas? Sure my toothpaste for dinner shirt that says "what is the meaning of this? oh it's a pronoun," is not 100% useful in the classroom, it does come close ( Read more... )

Just a final "presentation" and text identification final exam stand in between myself and break. I feel like I should be in pretty good shape this semester, grade wise. Already got an A- in Plays of Shakespeare. I'm expecting a few As, an A-, and probably a B, we'll see how that goes though ( Read more... )

So I've had this gift certificate for a music shop in Porter Square since last Christmas, and I finally spent it. I bought another acoustic guitar. Another Yamaha. I can't justify buying a really expensive guitar, at least for a while. With the gift certificate, it was 29 bucks. So I bought a set of 12 string strings, put the normal strings on my ( Read more... )

Yet another semester is done. All I have is a 2-3 page comparing the setting in 4 stories (seems ridiculously like 7 or 8 grade), integrating tech final "project" (I have to make a jeopardy game and write a final blog entry), World Geography final (I'm pretty sure I can fail the final and still get an A), and an English Lit final ( Read more... )

I remember doing it in high school and it was fun, posting classes. so here goes ( Read more... )

I am the proud owner of:

Flight of the Conchords
A melodica
A jaw harp
several books of poetry
Dr. Jim Nehring's Upstart Start-up

yeah birthday. (the real one is on Wednesday)

cheers,
aaron

It seems like all my literature analysis "muscles" have atrophied. I can no longer interpret meaning in text. It really really sucks. Getting a C+ on a paper really hurts ( Read more... )

Shaved the beard. I'm not going to count the number of times I'm going to get a comment about it.

I start today growing it back.

It was just really unruly, and it got to the point that my trimming and such was just making it look worse.

So much for the mountain man, Jesus, Serial Killer, Cool cat look. They'll be back in 3 months time.

cheers,

I know stuff like this is supposed to go away in high school ( Read more... )