I miss you.


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Doing NaNoWriMo, like every other self-absorbed, um, person.

WhatWhat.

Sort of proud of myself.

RIP Carolyn Ishida.

You were a vibrant, lovely woman, and you had a perfect bald head.
It was an honor to know you.

Fucking breast cancer.

I'm trying to use music in my classroom to teach lessons about social justice, laws (fair and unfair), social awareness, real life, literary elements, etc, etc, etc.  So far it's not working as smoothly or as fun as I had hoped.  Not much works consistently, so I just keep trying.

Last week used I used the songs below to teach about MLK day.  It ( Read more... )

I must always strive to be a better person.  Yeah.

( year end. )

Hello Everyone,

For those of you who weren't able to see it, here is a link to the video of my interview that aired on last night's KNBC 5pm News.

http://www.nbc4.tv/video/10011790/index.html

Love to all,

Kim

Here's a link to the inaccurate internet article related to my inaccurate newscast.

http://www.nbc4.tv/breastcancer/10011913/detail.html

No, my cancer has not come back, as was stated in the article and on the newscast.

Here is the email I just sent; my livejournal peeps, in general, know more about this than some of the folks I emailed.

Hello All,

As many of you already know, I was recently interviewed by KNBC Channel 4 News for a segment about a recent Breast Cancer study that was conducted by USC.   The interview was regarding the preliminary results of a new ( Read more... )

So, a week ago Monday I headed up to the USC Norris Cancer Center to tape an interview for KNBC News about a new breast cancer study.  I was quite fascinated by the topic, as it were:  the study has identified a protein on breast cancer cells that responds to a specific type of deadly chemotherapy (with particularly dastardly and permanent side- ( Read more... )