My first day of my second practicum starts today.  I'll leave in a few minutes.  Wish me luck ( Read more... )

Reply and I'll ( Read more... )

Once again, The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly neologism contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words.

The winners are:

1. Coffee (n.), the person upon whom one coughs.

2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight one has gained.

3. Abdicate (v.), to give up all ( Read more... )

I'm doing some spring cleaning today, so I figured I should probably brush some of the cobwebs off of my LJ and make a post while I'm at it.

The semester ended! That was probably one of the hardest portions of schooling I have ever done. You can probably guess that's why I haven't posted much recently; assignments piled up and tried to drown me.

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What Be Your Nerd Type?
Your Result: Literature Nerd

Does sitting by a nice cozy fire, with a cup of hot tea/chocolate, and a book you can read for hours even when your eyes grow red and dry and you look sort of scary sitting there with your insomniac appearance? Then you fit this category perfectly! You love the power of the written word and it's ( Read more... )

In my recent Technology class, we had to use the program Inkscape.  It's got tools for drawing rectangles, ovals, stars, and spirals, which is interesting, but not hugely useful on their own.  I couldn't figure out how to do much more, though.

Our professor told us we had to use the Bezier tool.  I couldn't make the thing work on my own; it just ( Read more... )

One of the great things about hanging out with new teachers is all the gross and wonderful stuff I get to learn.  Such as the following.  I shall make it a cut, so as not to put off anyone with a weak constitution.  Seriously, though, you should have used charisma as your dump stat (geek humour).

According to the March 2007 issue of Popular ( Read more... )

On Sunday, Peta and I drove up to the university to watch Eragon.  As I was backing out of our driveway, I completely spaced and backed lightly into the car parked across the street from us.  I pulled back into the driveway to check the damage ( Read more... )

1 word survey: Can. Only. Type. One. Word. Not as easy as you might think.

1. Where is your cell phone?
Desk

2. Your boyfriend/girlfriend?
Snuggly

3. Your hair?
Frizzy

4. Your mother?
Incredible

5. Your father?
Ditto

6. Your favorite thing?
Gaming

7. Your dream last night?
Forgotten

8. Your favorite drink?
Milk

9. Your dream car?
Flying

10. The ( Read more... )

I didn't get around to posting over reading break.  Mind you, I didn't get around to all sorts of things over reading break.  This includes reading.  Nothing new there ( Read more... )