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At this very moment, in the school auditorium, a rock band composed of 5th and 6th graders is playing Crazy Train.

For them, I throw up the horns.

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(Oddly, at the last school where I worked, I also heard a 5th grader play lead guitar on this song.)

I just saw arianhwyvar buying boots on Chronicle!

Please remember to vote today.

Thanks.

I am officially a MASTER OF EDUCATION!

A number of people have been doing this personality test recently. I'm impressed by how comprehensive it is.



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Today I have to go to a "Community of Learners Celebration," at which I (presumably one of the learners of said community) will give a short presentation on my research to a group of starry-eyed undergrads ( Read more... )

This has been a busy week ( Read more... )

So, these Johari things seem to be pretty popular now. For those of you not familiar with the concept, it was developed by two researchers named Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingram, who were looking into self-awareness. A person selects a number of adjectives to describe himself, and then has his friends select the words they would use to describe ( Read more... )

"Snow, tenderly caught by eddying breezes, swirled and spun in to and out of bright, lustrous shapes that gleamed against the emerald-blazoned black drape of sky and sparkled there for a moment, hanging, before settling gently to the soft, green-tufted plain with all the sickly sweetness of an over-written sentence."

--The first sentence of To ( Read more... )