yesterday ( Read more... )

an excellent weekend. :)

dinner with friends was definitely a highlight of the week, but so was the concert on Sunday. Bribed with a dinner of Jay's fabulous cooking, I stepped in to stage manage his benefit concert for the victims of the earthquake in China. Trying to direct 40 brass players to be in the right places at the right times is not ( Read more... )

done. :) I have officially been granted a bachelor's degree ( Read more... )

I have discovered Hafiz, c. 1320 to 1389, a poet from Persia... here are two of my favorites, translated by Daniel Ladinsky:

___
Damn Thirsty

First

The fish needs to say,

"Something ain't right about this

Camel ride -

And I'm

Feeling so damn

Thirsty."

___

The Happy Virus

I caught the happy virus last night

When I was out singing beneath the stars.

It is ( Read more... )

think good thoughts for me on Monday morning: I have my first TFA placement interview. I really want this particular position (math at a charter middle school in San Jose). The teaching schedule would be intense, but I'm amazed at the kind of results this particular school gets (entering fifth graders test at the 54th national percentile in math ( Read more... )

All of the best things that happened to me today were in the form of something edible.

sigh.

some days are like that...

1. I'm moving to California next year.

2. Thesis sucks.

Two oft-repeated bits of wisdom from my mother ( Read more... )

two oh oh seven ( Read more... )