Tomorrow I'm spending the day teaching 8th grade Social Studies classes about the value of a Living Wage and the history of the Living Wage. Tuesday, I am teaching about the great wealth divide in our country. I spent the day making props and planning. I am happy and nervous. I love my new job ( Read more... )

Some people have mentioned that maybe it isn't worth fixing.

My car needs a new clutch. The estimated cost of that is $700-1000. Diane's can't touch it until next Wednesday. (They're the good mechanic, though so, so busy.)

Damn. How hard is it to replace a clutch?

Just in case anyone is concerned I've forgotten, I promise I haven't. Sometimes it just doesnt make sense to write about it here anymore. But anyway, come down and hang out with Willie Baptist from Philly and other cool people on Friday at "Building a Movement to End Poverty: 40th anniversary of MLK's Poor People's Movement and what that means ( Read more... )

We put in seven new windows and a new programmable thermostat Saturday. It happened to be Step It Up climate action day, but we just happened to be lucky enough to be gifted new windows and a halfway decent day weather-wise to do it. Despite the following video, putting in windows is not hard at all once you have done it. They look great! They are ( Read more... )

Here's my little zombie:


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Looking for recommended reading for next week. Right now I am reading Divine Canine which has been the third or fourth in a series of dog training books. So maybe something which does not involve themes of "everybody poops", etc ( Read more... )

Ms.T is having her tonsils removed next Friday.

Please send nonviolent used PS2 games! But no singstar! :P

Eeek.

It's a really quite lovely life, you know ( Read more... )

Dear Very Small Rodent in my Garden ( Read more... )