Who are these people and how many of them are there?

"Obama - 183 days experience with senator issues. Palin - two years. That, and how can you fault her for having family problems when half of Brooklyn and the Bronx has done the same damn thing? And McCain was being polite about Bush - he is NOT Bush and I don't even think he wanted the guy at his ( Read more... )

I'm working on creating a blog specifically to detail my time living in Japan. Eventually, if I ever sit down and cooperate with myself enough to learn something new and difficult to me, the blog will be part of a website. But for now... blog ( Read more... )

Let's see here... big one is going to be that I'm officially unemployed. This came about because for the last couple months I have been having pretty significant back pain around the area where I had surgery. The pain has been dull and achy, like being super sore from working out. I went to my surgeon for her opinion. She diagnosed lumbar ( Read more... )

He's in Japan for business. It's only been five days and I'm finding myself horribly lonely and bordering on depressed. I believe this to be the downside of the combined boyfriend/best friend situation. I've got until May 31st or June 3rd until he gets home, depending on how things go. Seems far away right now, but I know it will go quickly...

One of the items on my "to do" list before I move to Japan is to get a new passport. Mine expires in 2009, but I won't be moving back before then, so I thought I'd get one before leaving to save the hassle ( Read more... )

I am so completely ready for this school year to be over. One week down with the WASL, one more to go. I'm trying to decide if I will bow to my boring curriculum, or defeat it with unpaid creativity and time. I just don't know which I want to do ( Read more... )

Yesterday was beautiful. It was sunny and warm in Seattle, but not so warm as to make me want to crawl under a rock (my perfect temperature is just below 70 degrees, although some reported that it was warmer than that). I was able to leave the house without blow drying my hair, and without freezing my head off with wet hair. This is one thing I ( Read more... )

I bought myself an iPod Shuffle. It blows my mind that two gigs of memory, crammed into a very cute little package about the size of a flattened fig newton, is only $69. I've never had an mp3 player before, and I'm stumbling my way through it okay, thanks to the fact that I have a Mac, which knows I'm a computer fool and holds my hand through the ( Read more... )

Boy, could I write a book with some of these test responses. Here's another of my student's responses ( Read more... )

I recently gave a test to my seventh grade students. The material on the test covered our recent unit on storms, including such things as weather generally tracking across the United States from West to East due to the jet stream. Here's an example of how one student explained how weather moves across our country and why it moves that way ( Read more... )