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So my roommate and I are moving at the end of the month and are doing a bit of clean-up around the apartment. We have compiled a list of books and videos we haven't read or watched in a good long while and we would like to give them away. So, of course, our friends ought to get first dibs ( Read more... )

I know I haven't updated in a frighteningly long time and that's not very likely to change any time soon, but in the meanwhile, here are some websites that I think some of you would appreciate ( Read more... )

I was all set to write a nice entry about baseball. I was at the game tonight--very exciting. The seats were phenomenal, right near the visitors' dugout. I was with my family, I had a foot-long hot dog, and I was happy. I was going to write about how I never get over walking into Fenway Park, climbing up that incline and seeing that great expanse ( Read more... )

Real life update in bullet points ( Read more... )

While I fully intend to elucidate more thoroughly upon the meanderings of my last post and the commentary it generated, now is not the time for that. Now is the time to focus completely on academia, on my students, on job and grad school applications, on apartment hunting and graduation invitations and my father's wedding gift, on buying my cap and ( Read more... )

Procrastinating leads to pontificating and, as this is a topic upon which I have pondered a lot lately, (and also because I'm having issues writing my World Civ paper), here I go ( Read more... )

The next person who asks for anything from me--and I do mean anything--is going to get their head bitten off and mounted on my wall. Just "finished" my political science midterm. I screwed up so badly at the beginning that I had to START OVER halfway through the time limit. I ended up having to write my enire second essay in outline form just to ( Read more... )

The key to writing the perfect lesson plan is knowing that it doesn't exist. It can be a very good lesson plan--chock-full of knowledge, engaging for your students, approved of by the administration and the DoE, blah-blah-blah-effusive-praise-cakes. But it can always use tweaking: modifications for individual students, accomodations for recent ( Read more... )

This looked really fun. I don't exactly know what a meme is or even if I'm allowed to participate in one without asking someone's permission, but here it is. If I shouldn't have it up here, just someone please let me know and I'll take it down. Thanks! :P ( Read more... )