Watching all this coverage on the 9/11 anniversary takes me back to being a scared 8th grader. Coming in to school to Ms. Bock telling us that the US was under attack. Sitting in lockdown, because no one knew what was being targeted. Watching the towers come down. The sadness that came after the fear. And later, the solidarity that came through ( Read more... )

Text my dad just sent me: "Wow, I just saw someone who looked just like a fat version of Nick Schretter at lunch - so I checked the company directory, and it is Nick - he is listed as a co-op student." Which is kind of funny and adds to the theory that my life is always strangely connected in some way ( Read more... )

This is without boyfriend gift and some relative gifts (yay relatives in other states...and none of us think ahead...)...including stocking and regular gifts

• Keurig Signature single-cup coffee maker
• B&N gift card
• I-tunes gift card
• Planner
• The Just Bento Cookbook

Because then I would do this ( Read more... )

now i might not be able to go to SW at all.  and if I am able to go, it would be getting there on friday night and leaving early on sunday/late on saturday.  I have founder's day on that Sunday, and possibly formal on that saturday (which i won't miss.  there will be more spring wars.  this is the last formal)...but I feel bad because I told Rukus ( Read more... )

Books:

• A Lion Among Men: Volume Three in the Wicked Years by Gregory Maguire - Woot! Oz is consumed with war fever!  As seen by the Cowardly Lion!
• The First-Year Teacher's Survival Guide by Julia G. Thompson - It's subtitled with "Ready-to-Use Strategies, Tools, and Activities for Meeting the Challenges of Each School Day" - has a lot of ( Read more... )

i am not a superhero. i cannot save the world.
i am not a superhero. i cannot save the world.
i am not a superhero. i cannot save the world.
i am not a superhero. i cannot save the world.

...i ought to give myself lines on the chalkboard.

So...you get a silly significant other survey my friend posted on myspace. In the cut, because it's annoying.

( silly survey )

is this icon.
that is all.

Cancer is so limited...
It cannot cripple Love
It cannot shatter Hope
It cannot destroy Peace
It cannot kill Friendship
It cannot suppress Memories
It cannot silence Courage
It cannot invade the Soul
It cannot steal Eternal Life
It cannot conquer the Spirit.

It has not conquered the love that my family feels for each other.
It has not conquered my hope for a ( Read more... )